Enhancing Access to Care

Henry Schein Medical and Henry Schein Cares Foundation partner with Children’s Health Fund to help enhance access to care for underprivileged

Henry Schein Medical, the U.S. medical business of Henry Schein, Inc., and Henry Schein Cares Foundation, Inc. (HSCF) announced a multi-year partnership with Children’s Health Fund (CHF) to support the nonprofit organization’s efforts to deliver high-quality health care to America’s most disadvantaged children.

Henry Schein Medical and HSCF, a 501(c)(3) organization that works to foster, support, and promote medical and dental health by helping to increase access to care in communities around the world, will provide a combination of cash and in-kind product donations valued at nearly $525,000 over four years. This donation will include a wide range of medical and dental products to support CHF’s mobile medical clinics and pediatric programs at the following 12 locations:

• Children’s National Medical Center (Washington, D.C.);
• Community Pediatric Programs at Montefiore (New York, NY);
• Dell Children’s Medical Center (Austin, TX);
• Family Health Services (Twin Falls, ID);
• Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital (Memphis, TN);
• Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford (San Francisco, CA);
• Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center (Baton Rouge, LA);
• Parkland Health & Hospital System (Dallas, TX);
• Phoenix Children’s Hospital (Phoenix, AZ);
• Teen Xpress at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children (Orlando, FL);
• Tulane University School of Medicine (New Orleans, LA); and
• University of Miami School of Medicine (Miami, FL).

As part of the agreement, each site had an opportunity to request a custom product mix to meet their unique needs, ensuring Henry Schein’s donations were strategically allocated to fulfill the most critical patient needs by location, according to a release..

“Henry Schein Medical is pleased to partner with Children’s Health Fund as part of our ongoing commitment to ‘helping health happen’ and enhancing access to care for those most in need,” said Brad Connett, President, U.S. Medical Group, Henry Schein. “Our new relationship with CHF reflects the important role public-private partnerships can play to help strengthen the health care infrastructure, and demonstrates how we as a company leverage our relationships with customers and supplier partners to drive corporate social responsibility activity that ultimately impacts the communities we serve.”

“We are extremely grateful for this new partnership with Henry Schein Medical and HSCF, which helps us provide resources to targeted programs and mobile clinics across the country,” said Dennis Walto, Chief Executive Officer at Children’s Health Fund. “Having additional support allows our programs to fulfill their primary focus: the delivery of high-quality medical care to children who need it most. Together, Children’s Health Fund and the team at Henry Schein Medical and HSCF are working on a common mission: to ensure children and families have access to the health care solutions they deserve.”

Since its founding in 1987, CHF has helped expand access to comprehensive primary care; reduce health barriers to learning; respond to the needs of children impacted by major health crises; and improve the health and well-being of children through advocacy and public education efforts.