Posts by Lyric Marinac

Anna Ponczoch works as a Medical Office Specialist in San Antonio and had been with HCA Healthcare for a year and a half when she was struck with something she never expected. She was in church one day when she began to feel very sick. At first, she thought it wasn’t anything major and tried to…

Sherrye Fisher is a medical assistant in Colorado who was at work one morning when she got a phone call informing her that her 19-year-old son Brandon was in a terrible car accident. His car had rolled multiple times, and he had skull fractures requiring brain surgery. She rushed to be by his side. Brandon…

Kelsie Pulliam is a diagnostic medical sonographer who has worked with HCA Healthcare for seven years. She knew about the Hope Fund from receiving emails about colleagues who were helped, but never anticipated she might be the one needing help until the day her son was born. Kelsie was just 36 weeks pregnant when she…

Tammy Moore is a phlebotomist in Kansas who has worked with HCA Healthcare for seven years. She heard about the Hope Fund and started donating shortly after being hired, but like most people, she didn’t expect to ever have a reason to apply for help. But life can change in an instant, and that is…

Brittany Schmidt is a Nurse Manager who has worked with HCA for about seven years. She was familiar with the Hope Fund from seeing stories in her email, and she knew someone who had received assistance, but she never imagined needing assistance herself until one day she found herself in a very difficult situation. Imagine…

At only 39 years old, most people don’t expect to have major health issues. But as an experienced nurse, Jonathan Sprinkle knew something was wrong. “I had been experiencing pain for some years, but I had a hard time getting a diagnosis since I was only 39 years old,” he said. “One day I was…

Ana Hernandez has worked as a social worker at HCA Healthcare for three years. One day as she was arriving at work, she slipped in the parking lot and fell. “I knew something was broken because I couldn’t move,” she says. Instead of clocking in for work that day, she became a patient in the…

Janet Merced is an OR Nurse who has worked with HCA Healthcare for five years. She learned about the Hope Fund shortly after being hired, but didn’t immediately remember it years later when she needed help. Janet’s mother, Aurora, had a stroke. In an instant, Aurora went from being self-sufficient to needing around the clock…

Sunflower Blanton is a patient care technician with a dream to become a nurse. Her life is busy as she juggles her job taking care of patients in Texas and attends her challenging yet rewarding classes to make her dream a reality by earning her nursing degree. Like many students, she lives on a tight budget…

Estefany Londono, a Complex Specimen Processor in Florida, was just 25 years old when her life changed forever. She had to call out of work one day because she felt “too sick to move”. When a day out of work stretched to an entire week, she went to the doctor and learned her white blood…