UnitedHealthcare has donated $90,500 in grants to support Iowa community-based organizations’ health and wellness programs for low-income families.

Grant recipients include:

  • Heartland Family Service – $30,000 to help women and families access health care, prenatal care, health education and other programs that include peer support care coordination and preventive care services;
  • Young Women’s Resource Center – $30,000 for programs that help improve birth outcomes for low-income pregnant women in Des Moines;
  • Lutheran Social Services of Iowa – $5,180 toward its residential treatment centers for youth and families, safety program and refugee services in several communities across the state;
  • Orchard Place – $10,000 to the organization’s nursing department that serves children who suffer from emotional and behavioral health challenges in Des Moines;
  • Waypoint – $10,000 to help provide shelter for Iowans in crisis due to homelessness, poverty or domestic violence in Cedar Rapids; and
  • Northeast Iowa Food Bank in Waterloo – $5,320 to provide healthy food and health education programs for local families.

In 2013, one in nine babies were born prematurely in Iowa according to the March of Dimes, and according to the 2014 America’s Health Rankings® report there are five deaths per every 1,000 births in Iowa. UnitedHealthcare supports organizations that provide programs designed to improve the health outcomes of infants, children and families.

“We are grateful for the opportunity to provide additional resources to organizations that help families live healthier lives and that extend the reach of critical programs and services, particularly for our state’s undeserved children and families,” said Kim Foltz, CEO of UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Iowa.

UnitedHealthcare serves more than 530,000 Iowans enrolled in Medicaid, Medicare and employer-sponsored health plans with a network of 124 hospitals and more than 15,000 physicians and other care providers statewide.

About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 850,000 physicians and care professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @myUHC on Twitter.

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