Making a Difference
At NOAH, the average number of parents who screen positive for food insecurity is 14% compared to the average of 10% in Maricopa County. Having access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious food remains a challenge for many parents and families we serve. To address this gap, in October of 2023, Molina Healthcare partnered with Neighborhood Outreach Access to Health (NOAH) to implement a unique food insecurity program at their Cholla location. The program consisted of 16 refrigerated food lockers for use by individuals and house households who were identified as food insecure. The program has since expanded to 32 lockers and has provided 1,074 households with fresh and healthy food options as of August 2024. With the recent expansion, NOAH is expected to double the overall output by the end of the year. This partnership was funded out of Molina’s Community Reinvestment program, which totaled $86,000 in 2023 and another $80,000 to double the food lockers in 2024. Molina Healthcare is a proud partner of NOAH’s refrigerated food locker program and look forward to continuously helping
address food insecurity in the communities we serve.
Hit the streets with Mercy Care's Mobile Care Units
It is a common mantra among organizations aiming to help solve the systemic homeless issues facing the greater-Phoenix area: Meet people where they are. This allows them to do the maximum amount of good for the people who need their services.
That’s where an organization like Mercy Care with its grant program Mercy C.A.R.E.S. (Community, Action, Resources, Education and Service) comes in. The community reinvestment program provides grants to nonprofit organizations throughout the Valley that are on the front lines fighting to get as much help to the people who need it.
Hit the streets with Mercy Care’s Mobile Care units and learn about Activate Food Arizona, Clous Covered Streets and Sonoran Prevention Works.
https://stntv.com/actionable_advocacy/grant-program-funds-front-line-fight-against-homelessness/
Molina Healthcare - NOAH
Molina Healthcare - Social Spin
The Social Spin Wash with Care in Mesa is a program funded and led by Molina Healthcare where we have engaged several other partners to provide goods and services for people coming to the laundromat to do laundry every Wednesday of the year from 1-4pm. On the first and third Wednesday of the month, we provide free haircuts through a partnership with Clipdart, a company with the mission to make a powerful, positive impact on the mental wellness of communities around the world through hair professionals. Clipdart provides anywhere from 8-10 free haircuts each Wednesday to adults and kids amending Social Spin, and it is one of the most innovative services we offer at this location. Also, on the third Wednesday of the month, we provide free health well check-ups through a collaboration with Circle the City. They provide free vaccines, needle exchange, glucose, cholesterol, blood pressure and other basic tests and health education to people present at the laundromat. Finally, on the fourth Wednesday of the month, we have a grassroots organization from South Phoenix called Unlimited Potential bring bags of food with fruits and vegetables and provide a cooking demonstration using the ingredients included in the bag.
Molina Healthcare has made a 3-year commitment to this project from 2023 to 2025, where we provide funding to Social Spin to pay for laundry services, Clipdart to pay for haircuts, and Unlimited Poten5al to distribute fresh produce and do healthy cooking demonstra5ons. The total 3-year investment on thisproject is $105,600 to support these 3 partners. Circle the City offers their healthcare services to this
project for free.
Molina provided this array of services from 3/1/23 to 8/14/24:
-
Number of loads of laundry: 5,686
-
Number of households served: 2,798
-
Number of people served: 5,904
-
Number of haircuts: 326
-
Number of food bags: 220 (from 9/23 to 7/24)
-
Number of well check-ups: 94 (from 1/24 to 7/24)
-
Helping Families in Need contacts: 461 (from 4/10/24 to 8/14/2024)
UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Arizona is collaborating with state partners, community organizations, and providers to help expand access to care, address social determinants of health, and promote health equity. In 2023, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Arizona invested $1.7 million to help improve health outcomes for Arizonans, and employees volunteered over 102,000 hours across the state. Our initiatives prioritize challenges facing the communities we serve and aim to support direct care workers, pediatric health, maternal health, primary care, mobile care, food security, affordable housing and much more. For more information, visit uhccs.com/az.
-
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Arizona donated the Tooth Bus to Brighter Way through a $800,000 donation to support UnitedHealthcare and Brighter Way’s common goal of improving access to oral health care and expanding outreach to people in the community who experience health and social disparities. The Tooth Bus provides a fully-contained and highly efficient delivery-system, establishing community collaborations and improving care access by bringing care to community members.
-
United Health Foundation collaborated with Valle del Sol Community Health to provide $3 million in grant funding to advance health equity for children and families in Arizona. Through this collaboration, Valle del Sol has brought primary and behavioral care to thousands of students from underserved communities in Phoenix. The mobile unit travels to middle schools and high schools to provide primary care, immunizations, psychiatry, and behavioral health services. This collaboration bolsters UnitedHealthcare’s commitment to advancing health equity, reducing disparities, and improving access to care for the people we serve in Arizona.
-
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Arizona collaborated with March of Dimes to provide an $800,000 donation to help launch the March of Dimes Mom & Baby Mobile Health Center® in Phoenix in early 2024, in clinical partnership with Wesley Community & Health Centers and ASU Edson College of Nursing and Innovation. The Phoenix Center serves as a primary healthcare provider to insured, uninsured, and underinsured women of childbearing age (15-44) across the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, to ensure families in Phoenix get the best possible start. The mobile unit also serves as an education hub for Edson College nursing students.
