Joanne F. Pulles serves as Vice-President for Community Engagement at HCA Healthcare.  In this role, Joanne leads a diverse team that manages all aspects of community engagement including social and charitable investment, colleague engagement and strategic partnerships and scholarships.

Joanne also serves as President of The HCA Healthcare Foundation, a position she has held since 1999.  As the Foundation’s chief executive, Joanne leads a diverse team and guides grant making to over 300 organizations annually working with the Foundation Board to manage over $200M in assets and $28M annually in grants and matching gifts.   This includes the Healthier Tomorrow Fund, an $80M Impact Fund focused on community health needs and health equity.   Joanne also served as the founding President of The HCA Healthcare Hope Fund, HCA Healthcare’s employee relief fund.  Since it was established in 2005, more than 50,000 HCA families have received over $94 million in assistance. Joanne now serves as the Vice-Chair on the HCA Healthcare Hope Fund Board.  Joanne also served on the first HCA DEI Steering Committee established in the early 2000’s and continues to actively serve on both the Executive DEI Council and ESG Steering Committee for the company today.    

Joanne holds a Master’s Degree in Health Services Administration from the George Washington University (1988) and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Emory University (1983).  She is currently serving as the President of the Downtown Rotary after having served on several other local boards including the YWCA.  In addition, she is an active member of the Conference Board Corporate Citizenship Leadership Council after having served on the Board for many years.

Joanne is a member of the Franklin First United Methodist Church and is married to Michael McIlwain.  She has two married stepdaughters and a new granddaughter.