HCA Healthcare proclaims collaboration with Johnson & Johnson to deal with key healthcare scientific and trade points

We’re proud to announce a brand new collaboration with Johnson & Johnson to deal with key healthcare trade points. Collectively, we are going to initially give attention to bettering well being fairness, enhancing nursing help, and bettering affected person outcomes:

• HCA Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson will collaborate on a scalable program to enhance well being outcomes via early-stage lung most cancers detection for the Black neighborhood. Lung most cancers is the primary reason for most cancers loss of life amongst Black sufferers¹, and the 2 corporations will start to work collectively on a pilot program within the coming months to extend early identification.
• HCA Healthcare, which has greater than 93,000 nurses in our system, and Johnson & Johnson have a long-standing dedication to advocating for and supporting nurses. We’ll work collectively to include Johnson & Johnson’s nursing sources inside HCA Healthcare and affiliate Galen Faculty of Nursing. The businesses will work collectively on well being fairness points centered on instructional programming, coaching and different applications that elevate and help nurses with a aim of enriching the nursing expertise and skillsets and bettering affected person outcomes.
• HCA Healthcare, via its HCA Healthcare Analysis Institute, and Johnson & Johnson will collaborate on cardiovascular well being initiatives together with a retrospective evaluation of sufferers that suffer from coronary heart arrhythmia, in addition to analysis to grasp the function digital well being expertise performs in impacting scientific outcomes for sufferers with Coronary Artery Illness (CAD) and Peripheral Artery Illness (PAD) ailments.

“HCA Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson have had a protracted and productive relationship, and each corporations have labored very arduous to deal with lots of our nation’s healthcare challenges,” stated Sam Hazen, chief govt officer of HCA Healthcare.

“Nobody firm can remedy society’s most urgent well being challenges alone — it takes collaboration,” stated Joaquin Duato, chief govt officer of Johnson & Johnson. “That’s why we’re working with HCA Healthcare to enhance affected person entry and outcomes, handle the nursing disaster, and advance well being fairness. We’re united in our focus to enhance affected person care.”

HCA Healthcare makes use of knowledge from greater than 35 million annual affected person encounters to repeatedly enhance care. As well as, with greater than 93,000 Registered Nurses (RN), HCA Healthcare is among the nation’s prime employers of RNs and invests considerably in nurses and nursing via training {and professional} improvement, tools and expertise, sources to advertise their bodily and emotional wellbeing, and illustration at each stage of the group from the bedside to senior management.

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¹ American Most cancers Society. Most cancers Info & Figures for African People 2019-2021. Atlanta: American Most cancers Society, 2019. Pg. 4.