Employees at Tenet’s corporate offices posed with dozens of breakfast cereal boxes following June’s food drive.
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This June, Tenet’s Healthy Over Hungry drive brought in more than 4.5 million servings – enough to fill half an Olympic pool. The annual food drive was started in 2014 by a Tenet hospital nurse in Detroit and has since has collected more than 19 million servings of breakfast cereal – enough to fill two Olympic swimming pools.

Working with Tenet CEO Ron Rittenmeyer, Tenet, USPI, Med Post and Conifer employees collected this bounty, benefiting 100 local food banks and nonprofits.

“This drive is a testament to how hospitals are working together in unique ways to improve community health,” Communities Lifting Communities, or CLC, Executive Director Susan Harrington said. CLC is a HASC initiative targeting health disparities — including food insecurity.

Gaps like food insecurity are linked to chronic conditions like diabetes, and by extension, to increased hospital emergency department visits.

Contact:
Susan Harrington
(213) 538-0717
sharrington@hasc.org