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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 health care to help people achieve their best health.
Our commitment extends beyond our members and into our communities with programs and investments focusing on immunizations, diabetes care, cardiovascular care, early detection cancer screenings, behavioral health, and maternal and infant health.
Through our major grant program, we invested in many organizations finding innovative, ways to close these gaps in their communities.
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 paths to stability and growth
A stable income and opportunities to grow provide a foundation for better health and well-being.
HCSC employs nearly 30,000 people and creates job opportunities in communities that drive local economic growth. We’re also investing in community organizations working to provide the stability and opportunities that enable people to thrive.
With the national hunger-relief organization Feeding America, we’re helping address the root causes of food insecurity.
Thirteen food banks in nine states participated in the Good Jobs Challenge in 2024, strengthening in-house workforce training programs and connecting workers to jobs. Among more than 400 people trained, more than half earned certifications and 43% were employed 30 days after completing a program.
Nutrition
Addressing food insecurity
Collaborating with community-based partners, we’re working to reduce hunger and improve access to nutritious food.
Many of our major grants in 2024 are advancing efforts to provide stable access to nutritious food.
The Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma expanded an innovative frozen meal program to reach 45 schools and deliver nearly 100,000 meals over three years. Students can eat the microwaveable meals at school, and many take the food home to help feed siblings and families.
In Austin, Texas, we invested in Ascension Seton Medical Center’s efforts to improve health outcomes for moms and babies with the Food is the Best Medicine program.
The program provides home deliveries of nutritious meal kits, produce and pantry items to women who give birth at the hospital and are identified as being food insecure.
Locally Defined Health Solutions
Our local focus
Organizations embedded in our communities are often best able to meet the unique health and human service needs of the people who live there.
In 2024 we celebrated the five-year anniversary of supporting health and wellness with our neighborhood center program in Chicago — and opened the doors of a new center in Albuquerque.
The neighborhood centers are helping community members learn, connect and focus on their health with classes, workshops and resources tailored to hyperlocal needs.
The centers hosted more than 1,800 events and more than 9,100 visitors in 2024.
Neighborhood and Local Assets
Strengthening neighborhood resources
We’re investing in wider access to affordable healthy housing, transportation and physical activity.
In Illinois, we made a five-year commitment in 2024 to invest $12 million in organizations addressing homelessness. They include South Suburban Women’s Health Initiative, which offers apartments for pregnant mothers and their children south of Chicago, and Vivian’s Village, a new supportive housing development in southern Illinois.
We’ve also continued our collaboration with National Fitness Campaign to help bring outdoor Fitness Courts® to communities. Twenty-four new courts built in 2024 are in walking distance for more than 74,000 people.
Our major grant program is funding other community-based efforts to strengthen neighborhood assets, including home repairs, community gardens, rides for older residents, and outdoor learning environments for children.
