Six Worcester agencies have won a share of more than $3 million in funding from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation to improve healthcare services.
The grants, which the Boston insurer s philanthropic arm announced Thursday, include $200,000 for UMass Memorial Health Care s Community Healthlink to improve access to behavioral health urgent care and $45,000 each to the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center and the Family Health Center of Worcester for helping eligible consumers obtain health insurance coverage.
In other funding, the Community Builders, a nonprofit with local offices in Boston, received $75,000 for helping address what s known as social determinants of health: challenges that can include poverty and a lack of access to education, child care or transportation. Three other agencies the Family Health Center of Worcester, the Regional Environmental Council and the YWCA Central Massachusetts each obtained between $12,500 and $15,096 for special
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The Peabody YMCA of Metro North was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts. (Shutterstock )
PEABODY, MA The Peabody YMCA of Metro North received a $25,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation grant as part of a special initiative program to create community-based programs and projects that promote sustainable improvements in health care for low-income and uninsured residents.
The special initiatives program provides one-time grants to nonprofits and projects that predominantly serve people of color, including some with a special focus on responding to community needs caused by COVID-19.
The award is part of $3 million in grants to 64 community-based programs this year. Over the past two decades, Blue Cross Blue Shield said it has provided more than $73 million in total grants across the state.
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Ed Alger stands in the doorway of the building he moved into recently, which is operated by Father Bill s & MainSpring. The six previously homeless men living in the Brockton property will get on-site support services. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Providing permanent housing with support services to people who ve been chronically homeless reduces health care costs in the first year, according to a new study released Tuesday.
Expenditures by MassHealth, the Medicaid program administered by the state, were 11.2% lower for people in the first year they were housed ($13,294 per patient on average) than for the control group living in shelters and on the streets ($14,781), according to the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation report.