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Blue Shield, ChildObesity180 Give Fitness Grants to Schools Back to Article >>

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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!


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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


http://www.HispanicInsure.com

 
 

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