Healthcare Finance News September 9, 2019
Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and the L.A. Care Health Plan are investing $146 million in Los Angeles area resource centers to address the social determinants of health for over 1 million people.
The five-year funding commitment will support 14 community resource centers and leverage personalized technology solutions to improve health and identify health disparities.
L.A. Care and the Blue Shield of California each opened their own resource centers more than a decade ago. These health and wellness centers offer a range of exercise, nutrition, parenting, and health management classes at no cost.
Over the next five years, Blue Shield and L.A. Care will jointly open seven new resource centers, remodel four existing centers and relocate three other...