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Optimal Health Outcomes
Helping close gaps in care that significantly impact health and wellness
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Economic Opportunity and Stability
Addressing issues such as poverty, barriers to employment, and upskilling
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Food Access and Nutrition
Supporting efforts to decrease hunger and increase access to nutritional food
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Locally Defined Health Solutions
Meeting hyperlocal health and human service needs
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Neighborhood and Local Assets
Focusing on affordable healthy housing, access to transportation, and access to physical activity
Optimal Health Outcomes
Closing gaps in care
We recognize the importance of expanding access to preventive care to help people achieve their best health.
Our clinical teams and many of our community investments focus on immunizations, diabetes care, cardiovascular care, early detection cancer screenings, behavioral health, and maternal and infant health.
More than 70 organizations awarded grants in 2025 are directing the funding toward closing these gaps in their communities.
The grantees include Montana State University, which is preparing nurse practitioners to meet the needs of rural communities. Another grant enabled New Mexico’s Pecos Valley Public Services to buy an ambulance for its volunteer, community-driven preventive care model.
Our mobile health programs work with providers and community partners to bring no-cost preventive health services and education to schools and other places that reduce barriers to care.
Economic Opportunity and Stability
Investing in stability and growth
A stable income and opportunities to advance in life provide a foundation for better health and well-being.
Many of our community investments are aimed at addressing poverty, barriers to employment, job creation, and skills development.
Since 2022, we’ve invested $2.5 million in Hope Chicago, which empowers students and their families to pursue educational aspirations without student loans, so far enabling more than 2,600 students and 380 parents to enroll in postsecondary programs.
Major grants in states where we offer health plans are advancing initiatives that help people achieve the stability and resilience they need to thrive. In Texas, a grant is funding the costs for three students to complete BridgeYear’s career cohort track to pursue careers as electricians, automotive and HVAC technicians, certified nursing assistants and other fields.
Locally Defined Health Solutions
Our local focus
Health needs vary from community to community, making the experience and expertise of local organizations and professionals essential.
In 2025, we invested more than $4.1 million in grants to organizations working at the local level to address community-driven health needs.
Our four neighborhood centers in Chicago and Albuquerque offer both in-person and virtual health and wellness programming. These centers use location-specific population health data to customize their programming. In 2025, more than 8,700 visitors attended the centers, and more than 2,200 programs and events were hosted across the four sites.
Nutrition
Addressing food insecurity
With national and local partners, we’re working to reduce hunger and improve access to nutritious food.
We invested more than $2.9 million in grants in 2025 to support organizations that purchase and distribute fresh food and provide nutrition education and support.
At the heart of this commitment is our long-term collaboration with the national hunger-relief organization Feeding America. A $300,000 grant in 2025 continues the company’s support for Feeding America’s Good Jobs Challenge, which strengthens the in-house workforce training programs in the organization’s network of food banks.
Many additional grants are helping local organizations strengthen their innovative approaches to fighting hunger in their communities, such as Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma’s medically tailored meals for patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Strengthening neighborhood resources
We’re all better able to thrive with access to safe and affordable housing, transportation, and space for exercise and recreation.
Since 2022, HCSC has collaborated with the National Fitness Campaign through its Healthy Cities program to increase access to physical exercise with free, outdoor Fitness Courts®. As the lead sponsor in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, we helped launch 26 new fitness courts in 2025 and nearly 80 since 2022.
In Chicago, we renewed our investment in the Center for Housing + Health’s Flexible Housing Pool, which works with health care providers to secure permanent housing for people who frequently use crisis services.
Other initiatives funded by 2025 grants include United Way of Eastern Frontier Country’s ride-hailing services for essential needs in Shawnee, Oklahoma, a city with no public transportation system.
