Community Involvement

Health Care Service Corporation’s community involvement is rooted in one of HCSC’s Core Values: Corporate Citizenship. Our Corporate Giving Program places a major emphasis on contributions to organizations that are aligned with HCSC’s health care and human service mission. In addition, the program helps HCSC’s divisions maintain their local focus and presence through support of community-based cultural and educational programs.

More Than Dollars
HCSC’s Corporate Giving Program includes sustained monetary support for a variety of programs and organizations. However, the HCSC Corporate Giving Program provides more than financial support for organizations. It also provides hands-on involvement through company management representation on the boards of directors of charitable organizations and direct involvement of management in the operations and events of the organizations that the company supports financially. Often the time and talent of these volunteers are more valuable to the organizations than monetary contributions.

In-kind Giving
As a technologically advanced company, HCSC is required to utilize the latest advancements in computers. From time to time, the company has surplus equipment that is no longer useful to HCSC, but is far from obsolete. Through the Corporate Giving Program, this equipment often finds a second life in schools and community organizations.

CareVan Program
The CareVan Program in both Illinois and Texas is a highly effective program that uses mobile clinics to provide health care services such as childhood immunizations and health information to underserved communities, both inner city and rural.

Begun in 1990 by the Illinois Division, the CareVan Program was the first of its kind in the nation and serves as a model for similar programs sponsored by Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans across the country.