Confluent Health Employee Foundation

The Foundation is intended to assist employees who have experienced a situation that has caused financial hardship due to an emergency or a qualified disaster. This event must be caused by a sudden and unexpected occurrence, or a combination of occurrences, which cause a pressing financial need for an employee. The event must be wholly unforeseen by the employee and beyond the employee’s control. Events that impact a family member of an employee, with only an indirect effect on the employee, do not qualify for grants from the Foundation.

* Emergency Financial Hardship – Financial hardship incurred due to the following is considered an emergency financial hardship:

• cost of care due to an unforeseen illness for yourself or an immediate relative
• death of a family member (can include cost of funeral and/or emergency travel to attend funeral)
• sudden, severe, overwhelming and unexpected events beyond the employee’s control which result in the inability to provide basic life necessities for that individual and their immediate family/close relative
• loss of wages including, but not limited to, an unexpected need for a leave of absence (must be company approved), clinic closure due to natural disaster, loss of household income, sudden loss of child support.

* Financial Hardship due to a Qualified Disaster – Financial hardship incurred due to the following is a qualified disaster

• a natural disaster in the form of a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, ice storm, etc.
• a personal disaster such as a house fire
• a criminal act (not caused by the employee) that leads to theft or loss of property
• a qualified disaster caused by a terrorist or military action
• an otherwise deemed qualified disaster by the government

Generally, all active (non-terminated) Confluent Health employees (and employees of Confluent Health affiliated companies) are eligible to apply for a financial assistance grant, provided the employee completes the application process demonstrating a qualifying event and the employee does not have access to sufficient funds to cover the cost of the financial emergency or hardship. Notwithstanding the foregoing, contract employees, temporary employees, and PRN employees are excluded from receiving grants from this program. Also, unless otherwise determined by the CHEF Committee due to extenuating circumstances, only employees who have completed six (6) months of service are eligible to request financial assistance.

Please review the Company Intranet (The Connection) for steps on how to apply for financial assistance.

You cannot reapply for the same hardship, but you can submit a new application for a different hardship.

Grants typically will be no less than $250 and no more than $4,000 annually, depending on the degree of damage and/or loss and severity of the hardship. A lifetime maximum of $10,000 of funds may be granted to any one employee as the purpose of the Foundation is to provide temporary relief due to an unexpected emergency or a qualified disaster. If more than one request for assistance is made by an individual employee, the employee may be asked to provide steps taken to improve their financial situation when submitting multiple assistance requests.

Yes CHEF funds are available to any Confluent Health employee as long as the financial hardship occured during their time of employment.