UnitedHealthcare announced a $1 million grant to continue support of Daughters of Charity Health Centers' Care Fellowship. The initiative, which launched in 2018 with a $1.5 million grant from UnitedHealthcare, is part of the company’s Empowering Health commitment to make an impact on the health of communities by providing significant funding to address social determinants of health in high-risk and high-need areas.
To date, the UnitedHealthcare grant has enabled a full-time team of 15 community health workers to connect more than 11,000 underserved and uninsured people across New Orleans with vital community health and social services. These include health screenings, scheduling appointments with doctors for preventive care services, and working with community partners to ensure people have access to the critical resources they need, including assistance in finding affordable housing, applying for SNAP food stamp benefits, accessing substance abuse treatment, primary care, financial education and counseling, and job training.
Pictured at the announcement are, left to right, Michael Griffin, president/CEO, Daughters of Charity Health Centers; Nicole Cooper, DrPH, MPH, UnitedHealthcare vice president of social responsibility; Dinah James, Daughters of Charity Health Centers' Care Fellowship client; Joe Ochipinti, CEO, UnitedHealthcare-Gulf States.