Healthcare Heroes in Action Fund by NCRNC Inc

Prior to April 2020, we focused on assisting the senior population by working to provide quality care and therapeutic services in a warm, healing, atmosphere. We took pride in helping residents to achieve measurable results and enjoy physical as well as mental stimulation. We continue to have our fully dedicated team serving our residents but are forced by the unprecedented and incomprehensible effects that the COVID-19 virus has had on people who are working in skilled nursing facilities all over the nation, to do more. In furtherance of our charitable mission, we launched the Healthcare Heroes in Action Fund to help and support people who cannot shelter and cannot hide from a virus that they are charged with fighting. With the help of so many, including our Fundraising Committee and Sponsors, we will raise and distribute over $9 million, in $300 increments to over 30,000 selfless, tireless, professional Heroes -nurses and aides working in COVID-19 epicenters. See details at: Healthcare Heroes in Action Fund

To be eligible a Hero must meet the following criteria:

• Work full time in a single Skilled Nursing Community (“Hero’s Community”) between April 15 & May 15, 2020, (“the Applicable Period”).  Full time means more than 175 Hours;
• During the Applicable Period, the Hero’s Community must have treated COVID-19 positive Residents, defined as Residents who either tested positive or were symptomatic and untested in a community that has confirmed cases;
• Devoted the majority of professional time providing direct-nursing and/or personal care to residents;
• Hold a License or a certification as a Nurse, Nursing Assistant or Aide or another certification which due to emergency declaration permitted the Hero to perform duties of an RN, LPN, or CNA.

Should there be inadequate funds to meet all qualified requests, NCRNC will take the following into consideration when choosing priority:

• The amount the employer will match;
• Whether the Hero tested positive for COVID 19 during or after the Applicable Period;
• Whether the Hero discloses that he or she has material unreimbursed extra-ordinary expenses such as for childcare or isolated housing.

Distributions will be made on a rolling basis starting on May 29, 2020. NCRNC shall not discriminate in the distribution of funds on the basis of race, religion, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, handicap, or Skilled Community Ownership. To help ensure the integrity of the distribution process, the recipients shall be chosen using a computer-generated model that is reviewed and overseen by an independent panel. The Board of Directors of NCRNC have approved these criteria and will approve the allocation in its entirety following the presentation of the Independent Panel.

Funds collected through MightyCause, a 3rd party nonprofit fundraising platform, will be deposited into an account of NCRNC Inc and is collected to help us fulfill our charitable purpose which is in part to “to receive and maintain a fund or funds of real or personal property, or both, and, subject to the restrictions and limitations hereinafter set forth, to use and apply the whole or any part of the income therefrom and the principal thereof exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary, or educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986”.

Thank you to the members of our Charitable Giving Committee who each materially helped to launch and support this effort:

Nichol Bunn, Partner and a Vice Chair of the Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Healthcare, Medical Malpractice, and Long Term & Elder Law Practices;

Glen Dwyer, President of Capital Lending and Mortgage Group, LLC;

Thomas Gallagher, Pepper Hamilton LLP Executive Committee Chair, a Member of the Health Sciences Department and White Collar Litigation and Investigations Practice Groups (past Chair);

Elizabeth Green, Leader of Baker Hostetler’s National Bankruptcy and Restructuring Team, Member of the Policy Committee (Governing Body) and Adjunct Professor at Levin College of Law;

Jerome Levy, Health Law Partner with Duane Morris LLP, 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the NY Chapter of the American College of Health Administrators;

Aaron Lichtman, Founder & CEO of Rytes Company LLC and a Principal of the Lichtman Law Firm;

Bill Mateja, Partner in the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations Practice Group at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP;

Brian C. Mitchell, Co-Managing Partner of the Dallas office of Reed Smith LLP;

Marla Presley, Office Managing Principal and Litigation Manager for the Pittsburgh Office of Jackson Lewis PC; and

Jack Selden, Partner in the Government Enforcement and Investigations, Litigation and Healthcare Groups at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, former US Attorney General for the N. District of Alabama.