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Newly updated to include breast cancer, prostate cancer, and spine procedures, this CHCF-sponsored research shows that practice patterns vary dramatically from place to place.

Medi-Cal Transforms

Medi-Cal is the main source of health insurance for one in five Californians. An updated report gives an overview of the program's key features, describes how the program is evolving, and examines the challenges ahead.

Obama Care in the Second Term

CHCF is a long-time sponsor of the UC Irvine Forecast Conference. A webcast of this year's conference on health policy in President Obama's second term is now available.

Childrens Health Coverage

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Blue Shield, ChildObesity180 Give Fitness Grants to Schools

Blue Shield of California and ChildObesity180 have awarded $500,000 in grants to schools in the state and elsewhere to help curb childhood obesity rates. The funding will be used to boost school fitness programs, and nutrition and wellness lessons.

Reader Comments:
  • 2
  • 05/29/2012
  • Hatti Hamlin

Blue Shield is on the right track; with state funding for schools continuing to drop, sports, gym classes, and supervised recesses are all on the decline. Some thoughtful nonprofits hospitals--Packard Children's Hospital and El Camino Hospital District among them--are using Community Benefit grants to help fund programs that replace this lost activity. PlayWorks, Bay Area Women's Sports Initiative and other programs provide free supervised play for kids at under-funded elementary schools, promote healthy eating and even provide family education on healthy life styles. This makes sense from every angle because these tax-advantaged providers are using their profits to reduce the taxpayer expenses that will be inevitable if the obesity epidemic grows!

  • 1
  • 05/29/2012
  • Rudy LehderRivas

Great job Blue Shield of CA. with Childhood Obesity on the rise; this is a move in the right direction!

Cheers,
Rudy Lehder Rivas, President
Hispanic Health Insurance



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