Trinity Health Corporation

Trinity Health Corporation's purpose is to govern, manage, and provide administrative services to its subsidiaries, which include hospital organizations exempt under section 501(c)(3) that provide needed Health care services to the communities in which they are located. The services provided by Trinity Health Corporation allow for economies of scale that in turn permit the subsidiaries to provide Health care services to patients at a reasonable cost. Trinity Health Corporation and its subsidiaries are collectively known as Trinity health.trinity Health is one of the largest catholic Health care delivery systems in the country. Trinity Health's community Health and well-being (chwb) strategy promotes optimal Health for people experiencing poverty and other vulnerabilities in the communities we serve by connecting social and clinical care, addressing social needs, dismantling systemic racism, and reducing Health inequities. We do this by: 1. Investing in our communities, 2. Advancing social care, and 3. Impacting social influencers of health.to further our strategy in fiscal year 2022 (fy22), chwb launched two training series to advance Health and racial equity in our communities.1. Chwb leader series to advance Health and racial equity: a year-long peer learning series to build the capacity of our chwb leaders to deliver on our chwb strategy with a focus on community leadership and engagement, and the use of a racial equity lens in all of our decision making. 2. Community engagement to advance racial justice - preparing for implementation strategy: a four-part series on engaging our communities in meaningful ways using a Health equity and racial equity lens to build lasting partnerships and impactful implementation strategies.investing in our communities - Trinity Health and its member hospitals are committed to the delivery of people-centered care and serving as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within the communities they serve. As a not-for-profit Health system, Trinity Health reinvests its profits back into the communities and is committed to addressing the unique needs of each community. In fy22, Trinity Health contributed $1.37 billion in community benefit spending to aid those who are vulnerable and living in poverty, and to improve the Health status of the communities in which we serve. Some examples of these investments include: Trinity Health awarded over $1.6 million in community grants that directly align with interventions and local partnerships identified in its member hospitals' community Health needs assessment (chna) implementation strategies, including access to Health care, mental Health, transportation, community engagement, food access, and housing supports. With a $1.2 million initial investment, Trinity Health launched round 2 of the transforming communities initiative (tci), a five-year, innovative funding and technical assistance initiative, partnering with community-based organizations and residents to advance Health and racial equity in nine of our communities experiencing high poverty and other vulnerabilities. Health ministries receiving tci funding are collaborating with a local multi-sector collaborative to develop and implement evidence-based strategies that advance Health and racial equity through addressing at least one root cause of poor Health identified in the development of their most recent chna implementation strategy. Trinity Health awarded over $1 million in covid-19 funding to support new and ongoing community engagement and mobilization efforts around making the covid-19 vaccination accessible to all eligible populations. This funding was designed to support all communities to ensure easy and equitable access to the vaccine by removing barriers for all people to receive the vaccine, especially communities that have less than a 75% vaccination rate. With this funding, Health ministries facilitated 3,200 covid-19 vaccine events, administered 80,000 covid-19 vaccine doses, and reached 874,000 people with educational materials on covid-19 and the benefits of vaccination.in addition to the $1.37 billion in community benefit spending, our community investing program had the most robust year of lending since the program's inception over 20 years ago: $17.8 million in new loans and $8.3 million in loan renewals were approved, focusing on building affordable housing and increasing access to education in partnership with our Health ministries. Advancing social care - Trinity Health's social care program was developed to address social needs, such as access to transportation, childcare, or affordable medications by facilitating connections between our patients, Health care providers and community partners that promote healthy behaviors. Highlights from fy22 include the following successes:- launched Trinity Health community Health worker (chw) certification program, training 86 chws with 40+ hours of training, and increased chw staff across most Health ministries- launched a system-wide assessment of language access services to recommend system standards that ensure culturally and linguistically appropriate services for all of our patients, their companions, and caregivers- engaged over 1,100 participants in the national diabetes prevention program, exceeding our program year 5 goal- increased the number of active community partner organizations on the community resource directory by 120% from fiscal year 2021- engaged 5,300+ patients who are dually enrolled in medicare and medicaid in a social care or medical care activity, in support of reducing preventable hospitalizations (such as diabetes and asthma)impacting social influencers of Health - leveraging investor power to catalyze corporate social responsibility, Trinity Health's shareholder advocacy work focuses on dismantling racism across five strategic focus areas by holding corporations accountable for the human rights violations those companies perpetuate in the u.s. and beyond. In fy22, Trinity Health facilitated over 135 shareholder advocacy engagements, with great success:- five below committed to assess and manage the risks/hazards associated with chemicals of high concern contained in their private label products- unilever agreed to stop food and beverage marketing to children under age 16, and will adopt new targets to reduce salt, added sugars and calories, and increase sales of their healthier products- pepsico set goals to increase positive nutrients in their products- pdc energy accelerated its goal to end routine flaring of methane, from 2030 to 2025, thus reducing environmental Health risks and greenhouse gas emissionsadditionally, Trinity Health and other members of the interfaith center on corporate responsibility gun safety group submitted a shareholder resolution asking sturm ruger, one of the nation's leading manufacturers of firearms, to conduct and publish an independent human rights impact assessment of its policies, practices and products, and make recommendations for improvement. The resolution received a 68.5% vote in favor, well above the threshold required for the resolution to be resubmitted in 2023, indicating a large majority of sturm ruger investors believe the company has to address its human rights impacts. Trinity Health and Trinity Health of new england are cited as part of the group who moved forward this resolution.for more information about Trinity Health, visit www.trinity-health.org.