Corporate charitable giving is engrained in the MedAssets culture and our core values and is highlighted by the programs we’ve chosen to support. As an organization, we feel a responsibility to lend a hand and help those less fortunate, and based on your positive feedback, we would also like to provide the opportunity for each of you to personally participate in these endeavors.

MedAssets has embraced four companywide charities for 2009. These are:

• Heart For Africa
• Project Perfect World
• MedShare International
• Hire Heroes Foundation

Heart For Africa is a U.S.-based non-profit organization that specializes in taking people to volunteer at orphanages in Africa.  They partner with local African organizations to provide self-sustainable children’s homes for orphans and vulnerable children.  Heart for Africa leverages American and Canadian assistance to build orphanages/schools, provide clothing, food, and bedding, along with other financial support. More information on Heart For Africa and its story can be found at www.heartforafrica.org.

Project Perfect World is a charitable foundation sponsored by AHRMM. It sends medical teams to perform surgical procedures in third world countries, especially in South America. PPW was started by a personal project in 1985 by Bob Simpson and was adopted by AHRMM  in 1995 was after Bob became its president.  PPW’s  clinical teams  perform surgical services in the same locations year after year, allowing for patient follow-up and ongoing correctional surgeries in cases where needed.  PPW is supported through the donations of companies and the efforts of their employees. For further information including domestic and international locations, please click here.

MedShare Internationalis an Atlanta-based organization dedicated to recycling surplus medical supplies and equipment to be used by healthcare institutions in developing countries. To achieve this mission, MedShare International collects batch and single item supplies and equipment that are still valuable but no longer in demand in the United States due to procedural excess, technological change, regulatory requirements, or production overage. They are then distributed to healthcare facilities in targeted developing countries.  MedShare International affords U.S. healthcare providers and suppliers an environmentally and socially responsible alternative to disposal of medical materials, while ensuring that one hundred percent of the medical materials it ships are needed and can be used.  To learn more about MedShare, please visit their website: www.medshare.org.

Hire Heroes USA is a link to career opportunities nationwide for returning service men and women, our Heroes, to ensure they have the opportunity to enjoy the freedoms they fought to preserve.  Through a personal approach, Hire Heroes USA serves as the bridge to rewarding careers to our returning veterans, specializing in the career placement of the wounded or disabled. Hire Heroes USA matches the career interests and skills of our nation’s returning heroes to the needs of companies who are partnering with us to fill job openings. The program offers placement services at no charge to veterans and employers. As a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, the program is supported through private and corporate donations.  

Please visit us at www.hireheroesusa.org to learn more about this wonderful program. 

See Hire Heroes USA News Coverage.