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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Announces Bold Plan to Address Health Inequities and Racial Justice
Announces new racial justice grants
First health plan in market to collect comprehensive member race & ethnicity data
Creates new expert panel to advise on addressing inequities
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BOSTON, Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts ( Blue Cross ) today announced a set of bold initiatives to address health inequities and racial injustice.
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The multipart plan features new charitable investments, including a grant program to support not-for-profits led by Black, Indigenous and other people of color, a first-to-market approach to collecting race and ethnicity data to address inequities in the care members receive, expanding marketing efforts to better reach a more diverse audience with critical messages focused on addressing gaps in care and i
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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