Henry Schein Extends Partnership with Special Olympics Through 2025, Promoting Wellness and Health Education for Athletes with Intellectual Disabilities Around the World

Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC), the world’s largest provider of health care solutions to office-based dental and medical practitioners, today announced that it has extended through 2025 its existing partnership with Special Olympics to support health screening and education for its athletes at select events around the world.

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A Special Olympics athlete receives oral health education during a free screening at Special Olympics Healthy Athletes at the 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Austria. (Photo: Business Wire)

Through this partnership, Henry Schein donates essential oral health and medical care products for the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes program in Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The goal of the Healthy Athletes program is to support the physical and social-emotional well-being of people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and to reduce health disparities and increase life expectancy.

Henry Schein’s donations are used during screenings in seven Healthy Athletes disciplines: Fit Feet (podiatry); FUNfitness (physical therapy); Health Promotion (better health and well-being); MedFest (sports physical exam); Strong Minds (emotional well-being); Healthy Young Athletes (pediatric screening); and Special Smiles (oral health).

Since 2018, Henry Schein has supported Special Olympics and its athletes by donating a range of essential health care products and most recently, for the June 2023 Special Olympics World Games held in Berlin, Germany. As a Spirit Partner to Special Olympics, the Company actively serves an important role in Special Olympics’ health programming. In addition, the partnership empowers and encourages health care providers to volunteer their time and services to increase the knowledge of best practices in caring for and communicating with people with ID.

According to Special Olympics, despite severe need and higher health risks, individuals with ID are often denied health services and die on average 16 years sooner than the general population.

“We are delighted to strengthen our partnership with Special Olympics, furthering our commitment to the Healthy Athletes program and health equity as a whole,” said Jennifer Kim Field, Chief Sustainability Officer at Henry Schein. “By joining together with Special Olympics, we are helping to expand access to care for an often overlooked community, which is a core tenet of our corporate citizenship commitment. Team Schein is honored to play a key role – alongside Special Olympics and health care providers – in helping to improve the overall health of athletes from around the world.”