The HCA Healthcare Foundation has awarded 10 one-year scholarships, totaling $31,250, to the dependents of HCA Healthcare in New Hampshire colleagues. The merit-based scholarships support the educational goals of colleagues’ dependent children across HCA Healthcare’s four New Hampshire hospitals: Catholic Medical Center, Frisbie Memorial Hospital, Parkland Medical Center and Portsmouth Regional Hospital. Established and funded by the HCA Healthcare Foundation, these scholarships empower eligible students to pursue post-secondary education.
“Supporting our colleagues and their families is an important part of who we are,” said Dr. William Lunn, president of HCA Healthcare Capital Division. “Through the Patricia Frist Memorial Scholarship, we are proud to help open doors for the next generation and invest in the educational goals of our colleagues’ dependents across New Hampshire.”
New Hampshire recipients of the Patricia Frist Memorial Scholarships and their parent’s HCA Healthcare affiliation are:
Appledore Medical Group
- Yazan Alhamdan, Georgetown University – International Affairs/Relations
- Brady Holmes, Columbia University – Chemical Engineering
Catholic Medical Center
- Sophie Dandawa, University of Notre Dame, Political Science
- Anna Stavropoulos, University of Delaware – Health Behavior Science
Frisbie Memorial Hospital
- Sara Boudreau, University of Hartford, Radiology Technician
- Elijah George, Fordham University – Financial Accounting
- Sophie Olivo, Norwich University - Architecture
- Emily Walsh, Salve Regina University - Nursing
Parkland Medical Center
- Riley Desrosiers, Rivier University, Nursing
Portsmouth Regional Hospital
- Lillian Zehetner, University of Rhode Island, Biomedical Engineering
To date, the Patricia Frist Memorial Scholarship has awarded more than $17 million in scholarships to dependents of HCA Healthcare colleagues.
The scholarship program was renamed the Patricia Frist Memorial Scholarship in 2021 to honor the late Patricia Frist, a longtime philanthropist in Nashville, Tennessee, and wife of HCA Healthcare co-founder Dr. Thomas Frist Jr. Through this program, eligible dependents of HCA Healthcare colleagues can receive merit-based higher education scholarships of up to $5,000 a year.