A $1.8 million grant to the nonprofit organization Visi\u00c3\u00b3n y Compromiso to fund a three-year program to provide mobile health services in Los Angeles County was announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The grant from the health care insurance provider Health Net and the Centene Foundation will support the Mobile Outreach for Vulnerable and Engage Support program which will consist of vans staffed by community health workers known as promotoras, registered nurses and community outreach coordinators to provide free health screenings, chronic disease management education, access to specialty care and suggested referrals to other resources.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe that health care should come to people \u2014 in the places where they live, work and build community,\u201d Maria Lemus, executive director of Visi\u00c3\u00b3n y Compromiso, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough the MOVES program, communities can access holistic health care services and well-being supports, and expand our commitment to elevate community-driven solutions to create a healthier Los Angeles for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
The announcement came during Visi\u00c3\u00b3n y Compromiso\u2019s annual conference, which drew nearly 1,000 promotoras and community health workers from across the nation, according to the organization, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n
Visi\u00c3\u00b3n y Compromiso bills itself as a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the promotora workforce. The Centene Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Centene Corp., the parent company of Health Net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A $1.8 million grant to the nonprofit organization Visi\u00c3\u00b3n y Compromiso to fund a three-year program to provide…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[4231,2771,1582,276,13986,3059,6139,210,2961,224,5337,134735,77390],"class_list":{"0":"post-255673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-announced","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-care","13":"tag-county","14":"tag-grant","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-provide","20":"tag-vans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115269603421340450","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}