South Fulton City Councilwoman Carmalitha Gumbs Joins Clover Health to Lead Community Engagement and Partnerships in Georgia
June 15 2021 - 4:05PM
Today, Clover Health (Nasdaq: CLOV) (“Clover”), an innovative
technology company committed to improving health equity for
America’s underserved seniors, announced the hiring of South Fulton
City Councilwoman Carmalitha Gumbs to lead the company’s community
organizing efforts and partnership development in Metro Atlanta,
and throughout the southeast region to include Georgia, South
Carolina (Charleston), and Mississippi (Jackson).
As Head of Community Engagement and Partnerships at Clover, Ms.
Gumbs will be responsible for providing visionary leadership to
execute and oversee programs, build partnerships to increase
Clover’s community involvement among Medicare beneficiaries, as
well as the medical community and other organizations that serve
this population across Clover’s southeast region.
“We are delighted to welcome Carm to the Clover family. She
brings invaluable experience serving local communities in Georgia
and has spearheaded a number of initiatives to increase access to
quality services for the Medicare population in the area,” said
Chief Executive Officer Vivek Garipalli. “Improving health equity
is core to our foundation, and Carm has a profound understanding of
the needs of senior communities throughout the state.”
Prior to joining Clover, Ms. Gumbs spent four years as ChenMed’s
Cultural and Community Affairs Manager, where she launched a range
of wellness programs for Atlanta area seniors and orchestrated
critical partnerships to extend the reach of these programs and
drive awareness among the business community of local seniors’
unique health and social needs. Ms. Gumbs is also dedicated to her
community, and she continues to serve as a Councilwoman in the City
of South Fulton, Georgia, a position she has held since 2017. As a
Councilwoman, Ms. Gumbs has leveraged her background in social work
and government affairs to strengthen public-private partnerships
for the benefit of local communities and the Medicare population.
“What attracted me to Clover was its particular focus on
delivering great, affordable healthcare to underserved and
vulnerable populations. Clover’s approach is unlike anything I’ve
ever seen before in Medicare and I believe they are making real
progress in improving health equity for those who’ve historically
lacked access to high quality care,” said Gumbs. “It’s been my
mission to help Metro Atlanta seniors prioritize prevention and
live their healthiest lives for more than a decade. I intend to
continue this important work at Clover not just in Metro Atlanta
but across the region.”
About Clover HealthClover Health (Nasdaq: CLOV)
is a next-generation insurance company aiming to achieve health
equity for all Americans. While our mission is to improve every
life, we particularly focus on seniors who have historically lacked
access to affordable high quality healthcare.
We aim to provide great care, in a sustainable way, by having a
business model built around improving medical outcomes while
lowering avoidable costs. We do this while taking a holistic
approach to understanding the health needs and social risk factors
of those under our care. This strategy is underpinned by the
company’s proprietary software platform, the Clover Assistant,
which is designed to aggregate patient data from across the health
ecosystem to support clinical decision-making by providing
physicians with real-time, personalized recommendations at the
point of care.
Making care more accessible is at the heart of our business, and
we believe patients should have the freedom to choose their
doctors. We offer two models of care: affordable Medicare Advantage
plans with extensive benefits; and care coordination for Original
Medicare beneficiaries through Direct Contracting. For both
programs, we provide primary care physicians with the Clover
Assistant and also make comprehensive home-based care available via
the Clover Home Care program.
With its corporate headquarters in Nashville, Clover’s workforce
is distributed around the U.S. and also includes a team of
world-class technologists based in Hong Kong. The company manages
care for Medicare beneficiaries in eleven states, including
Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Vermont.
About Our FoundersVivek Garipalli is the
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Clover Health. Vivek is
widely regarded as a leading healthcare business expert, having
founded five healthcare companies before the age of 40. Vivek
witnessed the misalignment of providers and insurance companies
first-hand and wanted to find a way to serve underinsured and
underserved patient populations, which led to the founding of
Clover. He recognized that individual empowerment is not
prioritized in the current structure of the healthcare system – an
imbalance he has set out to disrupt.
Andrew Toy is the President and Chief Technology Officer of
Clover Health and the creator and founder of Clover’s software
platform, the Clover Assistant, which embodies Clover’s vision for
how technology and analytics can improve the lives whose care is
managed by Clover. In line with Clover’s aim of providing great,
affordable healthcare to seniors, Andrew strives to build the
premier technology platform for chronic disease management and to
provide physicians with the data necessary to formulate
personalized care plans. Andrew joined Clover from Google, where he
led enterprise activities for the Android team and ran Machine
Learning, Enterprise Search, and Analytics for the Google Cloud
team.
Press Contact:Andrew
Still-Baxterpress@cloverhealth.com
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