$400,000 grant to support North Texas families
Dallas, Texas — Medical City Healthcare is announcing that the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas is receiving a $400,000 grant from the HCA Healthcare Foundation, through its Healthier Tomorrow Fund. The grant will help launch "United for Healthy Starts" to increase access to services and improve social, economic and overall health outcomes for families. Medical City Healthcare is the North Texas division of HCA Healthcare.
"Medical City Healthcare is proud to advance healthcare through partnerships like the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas to improve maternal and infant health outcomes, an important focus for our entire system of care," says Allen Harrison, president of Medical City Healthcare. "Through the outreach and impact of the ‘United for Healthy Starts’ initiative, we are honored to show up to provide healthier tomorrows for our community outside our hospital walls."
The $400,000 for North Texas is part of an overall $1.84 million grant from the HCA Healthcare Foundation to launch a collaborative initiative between United Ways in Dallas, Denver, Miami and Nashville. The program aims to help families have strong, healthy starts by advancing access to home visitation and wrap-around services for the mothers and children served. By establishing a national, collaborative learning community, United for Healthy Starts will also work to help create new nonprofit partnerships to strengthen service delivery and innovation and extend positive impacts beyond the initial grant funding.
"United Way of Metropolitan Dallas has a long and successful track record of increasing access to health care and providing supportive services for our most vulnerable mothers and babies," says Susan Hoff, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas chief strategy and impact officer. "The United for Healthy Starts partnership will help us amplify our impact in North Texas and provides an opportunity to work with three other United Ways to create innovative approaches to health care access. We believe this HCA Healthcare Foundation-fueled initiative will serve as a national model for cross-community collaboration to drive transformational change."
HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation have a long history of working with and supporting United Way. In 1981, HCA Healthcare co-founder Dr. Thomas Frist Jr. co-founded the first chapter of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society in Nashville, Tennessee, and later received its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Over the last 30 years, HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation have given more than $17 million in support of United Way's work to help improve communities nationwide.
Locally, Medical City Healthcare collaborates with the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas on our award-winning kids teaching kids® Healthy Lifestyles program that has already had a positive impact on more than 450,000 elementary school students, helping them form lifelong healthy eating habits. Additionally, we are proud to support the North Texas Healthcare Coverage Collaborative, facilitated by the United Way, to address the growing number of uninsured North Texans by providing financial support.
The HCA Healthcare Foundation's Healthier Tomorrow Fund supports evidence-informed programs that address high-priority needs and advance community health by supporting efforts to pilot, replicate and scale meaningful, measurable initiatives in communities where HCA Healthcare has a presence. Since its inception, the fund has committed more than $17 million in grants to nonprofits across the country.