b'In 2021, We Were Proud to Have:Our Commitment to Compliance and Transparency Launched or re-opened 18 funds, including new funds to assist Medicare patients living with Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Neurocognitive DiseaseLike other independent charitable with Psychosis, Pancreatic Cancer and Pulmonary Hypertension. patient assistance programs (CPAPs),Launched a HealthWell-sponsored COVID-19 Frontline Health Carethe HealthWell Foundation receives Workers Behavioral Health Fund to provide grants of up to $2,000the majority of its donations from the to assist frontline health care workers in covering their out-of-pocketpharmaceutical industry. As a result, treatment-related copayments for prescription drugs, counseling services,as with other CPAPs, HealthWell is psychotherapy, and transportation needed to manage COVID-19 relatedstructured, governed and operated behavioral health issues. in compliance with federal legal and regulatory requirements and is requiredProvided financial assistance to the families of over 1,170 children livingto operate independently from our with chronic or life-altering conditions through our HealthWell Pediatriccorporate donors. We are subject to Assistance Fund . oversight by the U.S. Department ofAssisted more than 130 oncology patients seeking behavioral healthHealth and Human Services, Office services through our Cancer-Related Behavioral Health Fund.of Inspector General (OIG), whoseContinued to operate more than 60 funds in a variety of disease areas,mission is to protect the integrity of including multiple funds in oncology, and our special initiative funds infederal health care programs, and behavioral health and pediatrics. which provides strict guidance for how CPAPs should be structured to maintainStrengthened the diversity and number of our individual donor base tocompliance with these requirements. over 50,000 donors with more than 17,000 giving in 2021, resulting in a record high year-end public charity percentage. Maintained operational efficiency by programming our grants with an overhead rate of less than 2.61% foundation-wide, while never using any donor dollars to pay administrative fees. Enhanced our website with the launch of our compliance page, which features videos from our Board members and senior management team.Launched a Spanish language application, expanded content on our Espaol page, and created a new version of our Disease Funds list in Spanish. Increased our social media presence across all platforms by growing our online audience to over 9,800 followers, resulting in over 3,279,000 impressions, almost 33,000 engagements and over 16,100 clicks.Increased our Real World Health Care blog following to 18,879 users,We have and will continue to follow resulting in 25,691 pageviews in 2021. that guidance to the letter. MaintainingSpread our message nationally with dozens of alliance partners, resultingcompliance, independence, and in close to 684 million media impressions from placements in major newstransparency has been our standard outlets, including Reuters, Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch and Washingtonoperating policy since our inception Business Journal. and is essential to our ability toWelcomed David F. Ertel to the Foundations Board of Directors. serve our mission. To learn moreEnhanced our staff with the addition of two new members to ourabout HealthWells OIG Opinions, corporate team. financial reporting, and program audit summaries, visit: https://www.healthwellfoundation.org/about/financials/.'