Health Net Gives $368,000 in Charitable Grants to Help Expand Access to Quality Medical Care and Services
December 18 2014 - 6:30PM
Business Wire
$200,000 being provided to Los Angeles County
health centers, and $168,000 being provided to individual doctors
in Los Angeles, Kern, Sacramento, Stanislaus and Tulare
counties
Health Net, Inc. is providing a total of $200,000 in charitable
grants to four Los Angeles County federally qualified health
centers to help expand their services and provide wider access to
quality care.
“These charitable grants are intended to meaningfully help
expand the reach and capabilities of the health centers, whose
patients are primarily covered by the Medi-Cal program,” said
Patricia Clarey, chief state health programs officer for Health
Net. “The funding, among other things, will help them expand their
physical facilities and invest in new equipment and technology to
help them better serve their patients.”
The four health centers sharing the $200,000 are:
- JWCH Institute, Inc.
- Northeast Valley Health
Corporation
- Valley Community Healthcare
- Venice Family Clinic
Grants to Individual Doctors
Additionally, Health Net is providing a total of $168,000 in
charitable grants to 18 primary care physicians in Los Angeles,
Kern, Sacramento, Stanislaus and Tulare counties.
“Each physician will be granted between $2,000 and $15,000 to
help make a meaningful patient-experience improvement at the
physicians’ offices,” said Clarey. “Examples include the purchase
of medical equipment like weight scales, barrier-free exam tables
and lifts for special needs or disabled patients.”
About Health Net
Health Net, Inc. (NYSE: HNT) is a publicly traded managed care
organization that delivers managed health care services through
health plans and government-sponsored managed care plans. Its
mission is to help people be healthy, secure and comfortable.
Health Net provides and administers health benefits to
approximately 5.9 million individuals across the country
through group, individual, Medicare (including the Medicare
prescription drug benefit commonly referred to as “Part D”),
Medicaid, U.S. Department of Defense, including TRICARE, and
Veterans Affairs programs. Health Net also offers behavioral
health, substance abuse and employee assistance programs, managed
health care products related to prescription drugs, managed health
care product coordination for multi-region employers, and
administrative services for medical groups and self-funded benefits
programs.
For more information on Health Net, Inc., please visit Health
Net’s website at www.healthnet.com.
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