A Sands Cares contribution of $175,000 provides funding for ACDC's HAPI Medical
Center and the API Language Link.
LAS
VEGAS, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Las
Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) today announced it has donated $175,000 to the Asian Community Development
Council (ACDC), building on the company's Sands Cares partnership
with the leading nonprofit organization serving the Asian American
Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in Southern Nevada.
Coinciding with AAPI Heritage Month in May, the 2023 Sands Cares
donation to ACDC supports two capacity-building initiatives: the
Healthy Asians & Pacific Islanders (HAPI) Medical Center and
the API Language Link, enabling ACDC to provide critical
in-language health and social services to the AAPI community.
Sands previously supported ACDC with funding to open the HAPI
Medical Center last September. The clinic provides the AAPI
community with a 100% bilingual staff to deliver high-quality,
in-language care, removing barriers often faced in obtaining health
care services. Sands' 2023 funding will help the HAPI Medical
Center host community health care events to deliver medical and
dental services, mammograms and vaccinations.
In 2021 Sands enabled ACDC to establish the API Language Link,
which facilitates connections to a variety of social services, and
the 2023 Sands Cares funding will enable ACDC to hire more language
specialists to ensure the organization meets the needs of the HAPI
Medical Center and its other direct service locations, including a
culturally-sensitive food distribution warehouse in Las Vegas and a second community resource
center in Reno, Nevada.
Both areas of support represent Sands Cares' focus areas of
helping nonprofit organizations build capacity to increase their
impact and assisting diverse communities in removing systemic
barriers to critical needs and opportunities.
"The support we have received from Sands Cares over the past
three years has made possible two tremendous service
expansions, both underscored by the fact that language should never
present a barrier to receiving the care and services people need,"
Vida Lin, founder and president of
ACDC, said. "Sands' partnership is helping us make vital
connections to ensure the well-being of the diverse AAPI
communities we serve."
The HAPI Medical Center provides culturally sensitive primary
health care spanning urgent care for acute symptoms, chronic
disease management and preventive health care services, with the
future goal of providing access to specialty care such as
cardiology, diabetes, nephrology, behavioral health,
gastroenterology and infectious disease services. With Sands
support in 2022, the HAPI Medical Center provided free medical care
to patients in January and February, enrolled patients in its
financial scholarship program to cover medical expenses and hosted
19 vaccine clinics.
The API Language Link offers support in 10 languages with
translation specialists assisting ACDC's service delivery for food
distribution and assistance, health insurance navigation,
citizenship applications, and voter registration, as well as at the
HAPI Medical Center. In 2022, API Language Link specialists
conducted more than 1,000 in-language meetings, hosted more than
350 community events, created and distributed 5,500
Chinese-language voting guides, and sent more than 270,000 pieces
of in-language mail.
"ACDC is improving lives daily, while advancing the long-term
health and well-being of the AAPI community in Southern Nevada," said Ron Reese, senior vice president of global
communications and corporate affairs, who spearheads corporate
responsibility initiatives at Sands. "The significant impact they
have made with these programs is why we continue to invest in their
efforts. Not only are we committed to being an ally for the AAPI
community as a whole – we believe in ACDC's ability to provide
leadership in addressing the diverse needs of the many populations
it serves."
Sands Cares' support for ACDC is one of several engagements with
diverse community organizations. Through these efforts, Sands aims
to propel programs that remove systemic barriers and advance
opportunities for underrepresented groups.
To learn more about Sands Cares, visit
https://www.sands.com/responsibility/communities/#our-program-sands-cares.
To learn more about the Asian Community Development Council, visit
https://acdcnv.org/
About Sands (NYSE: LVS)
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world's preeminent developer and operator of world-class integrated
resorts. Our iconic properties drive valuable leisure and business
tourism and deliver significant economic benefits, sustained job
creation, financial opportunities for local businesses and
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China Ltd.
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responsibility, anchored by the core tenets of serving people,
planet and communities. Our ESG leadership has led to inclusion on
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www.sands.com.
About the Asian Community Development Council
The
Asian Community Development Council (ACDC) is a nonprofit and
non-partisan organization of volunteers dedicated to building,
connecting, and educating the Asian American Pacific Islander
community in Nevada. ACDC was
officially chartered in 2015. The mission of ACDC is to improve the
general well-being and education of the Asian American Pacific
Islander and other ethnic communities in Nevada. Services that ACDC offers include
voter education, health insurance enrollment assistance,
citizenship application assistance, vaccination clinics (Influenza
and COVID-19), food distribution, College Readiness Bootcamp and
GraduAsian.
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