For Immediate Release
Contact: Olivia Linke
May 23, 2022
Phone: 716-604-5414
Univera Healthcare Provides Community Health
Awards to Area Nonprofits
Univera Healthcare announced that it is awarding a total of eight community health awards to nonprofit organizations across Western New York. The community health award funding will support innovative programs and solutions to advance health equity and ultimately improve health outcomes for underserved segments of the communities the health plan serves.
Through a competitive application process, Univera Healthcare’s Community Health Awards will provide funding to launch, expand, and sustain programs and services that promote health. These investments will also advance health equity by extending the reach of preventive health services or health-promoting programs to vulnerable populations.
VIA: Visually Impaired Advancement low vision clinic is the cornerstone of the agency and functions as the agency’s gateway to vision rehabilitation services. Approximately 90% of the calls to the agency driven from the agency’s website are related to the low vision clinic’s services. The low vision specialist is one of only two providers in Western New York.
Visually Impaired Advancement | Home (viawny.org)
Other organizations included:
- St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy – Home (stlukesmissionofmercy.org)
- Urban Farm | Massachusetts Avenue Project | Buffalo, NY (mass-ave.org)
- Community Access Services (caswny.org)
- Addiction Rehab & Mental Health Services | Horizon Health | WNY (horizon-health.org)
- Houghton College Buffalo | Houghton College
- Jericho Road Community Health Center: Medical Care, Community Programs, Global Work (jrchc.org)
- Kidney Foundation of WNY (kfwny.org)
“We hope this community funding can assist our nonprofit partners in continuing to address and remove barriers impacting economic stability, address social determinants of health, and reinforce overall community health improvement programs,” states Art Wingerter, president, Univera Healthcare.
The health plan’s corporate giving follows all applicable laws and regulations and does not support funding organizations that conflict with its corporate mission, goals, policies, or products.
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Univera Healthcare is a nonprofit health plan that serves members across the eight counties of Western New York. With more than 500 Buffalo-based employees and a local leadership team, the company is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce to foster innovation and better serve its members. It also encourages employees to engage in their communities by providing paid volunteer time off as one of many benefits. Univera is part of a Rochester-based health insurer that serves more than 1.5 million members across upstate New York. Its mission is to help people live healthier and more secure lives through access to high-quality, affordable health care, and its products and services include cost-saving prescription drug discounts, wellness tracking tools and access to telemedicine. To learn more, visit UniveraHealthcare.com.
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