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Local Plans
Local Impact
Partnering to build healthier communities
Health Equity & Quality
Food Stability & Nutrition
Housing
Workforce development
Community Health &
Wellbeing
Over the past five years, local plans’ community reinvestments have comprised programs that:
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Promote health equity and quality
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Support stable, supportive, and permanent housing
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Grow and diversify the health care workforce, including licensed and unlicensed professionals dedicated to serving the safety net
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Improve community health and wellbeing
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Address food insecurity and nutrition
Local Medi-Cal managed care plans have invested in the communities they serve for many years
Tailored investments to reflect the value of locally based and mission driven managed care
Committed to boosting the health of the population they serve
Aligned with efforts to improve access and quality and address social drivers of health
Local Plans, Local Impacts: Partnering to Build Healthier Communities Webinar
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Nearly $800 million reinvested in community-driven solutions
and infrastructure projects over the past 5 years.
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Collectively, local plans exceed a new Medi-Cal managed care contract requirement to reinvest a specific percentage of their net income into the communities they serve.
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Investments support vulnerable populations and align with CalAIM’s goals of fostering equity, justice, and a healthier future for all Californians.
Local Plans
Lasting Change
"Local health plans enhance health outcomes and strengthen the social fabric of their communities. By promoting health equity, advocating quality, and partnering with community organizations, local health plans have a profound impact on the health and wellbeing of the populations they serve.”
- Jarrod McNaughton, LHPC Board Chair and CEO of Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP)
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Local needs
drive local investments
Local plans’ relationships with CBOs, counties, providers, and other partners have developed over many years.
Many organizations rely on local plan funding to remain operational and deliver highly impactful support.
Many hyper-local organizations are skilled at providing core services, but easily overwhelmed by administrative duties.
Local plans must be nimble to respond to emerging issues or changes in geographic, racial/ethnic, or socioeconomic needs.
Holistic & Objective approach
Local plans approach community reinvestment holistically, incorporating community input, data, experience with trusted partners, and awareness of other local projects.
Local plans review community needs from a global perspective. This allows local plans to focus on more underserved areas, populations, or categories to ensure a broad spectrum of programs are being funded and community needs as a whole are being addressed.
Community stakeholders weigh in on local plan investments
Community reinvestment
is a long-standing practice
Local plans have been reinvesting in their communities for many years. Their commitment is steadfast, as demonstrated by their increasing levels of reinvestment over the last five years.
While the magnitude of investments depends on many factors, including overall Medi-Cal funding in any given year, local plans have consistently prioritized community reinvestments.
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Voices
from the Community
Health equity & quality
CalOptima Health provided $4 million to Healthcare in Action to launch its first street medicine program in Garden Grove, CA. Funding covered the first two years of operations, including purchase of a medical van, equipment, supplies, computers/technology, and staff costs for administrative personnel, health care providers, and peer navigators. Using the medical van to canvas the community and reach members living in parks, under freeways, and other unsheltered spaces, the program provides primary care, behavioral health, and case management to individuals experiencing homelessness. Recently, they have expanded the program to Anaheim and Costa Mesa.
“The goal … was to deliver primary care to up to 200 homeless individuals using a medical van. As of the end of the first quarter 2024, a total of 263 individuals have been served… Trained medical staff take the necessary steps to build trust over time and ensure this vulnerable population is treated with the care and respect they deserve…[T]he program has exceeded our expectations and had a positive impact in our community.
—Monica Covarrubias, Sr. Project Manager, City of Garden Grove
Housing
The Central California Alliance for Health (CCAH) invested in MidPen Housing’s development of 261 affordable housing units in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, including a total of 41 units that will be designated as permanent supportive housing for medically complex CCAH members.
“Housing is one of the most important social drivers of health. Without safe and stable housing, it is almost impossible to address underlying health issues because being unhoused becomes the focal point of one’s life and detracts from any healing measures. [CCAH] has recognized housing as a foundational building block to health and invests in permanent supportive housing and capacity building for supportive services.”
—Natalie Magana Boyles, Project Manager, MidPen Housing
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Workforce Development
Launched in 2018, L.A. Care Health Plan's Elevating the Safety Net Initiative is a $205 million commitment to recruit, train, and retain highly qualified primary care physicians serving L.A. County’s Medi-Cal populations. Scholarships and grants go to qualified recipients in the following areas:
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Provider recruitment grants
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Medical school loan repayments
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Full-ride scholarships for medical school students
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Caregiver training for in-home supportive services workers
“Medical student attrition is high among low-income students. This scholarship helps diversify the healthcare workforce by preventing attrition due to lack of income... The students... are bilingual and bicultural from L.A.... Latina physicians are more likely to work in County hospitals and FQHCs."
– Margarita Loeza, MD MPH, Assistant Dean, Admissions and Student Affairs Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, College of Medicine
Community Health & Wellbeing
Kern Family Health Care funds rural mobile clinics for the California Farmworker Foundation, offering one to two health clinics per week that provide preventive health care exams and deliver accessible health care services to farm workers with chronic illnesses. For many workers this is the first time they have seen a doctor.
“The only way that we can create a healthy sustainable farmworker community is to ensure that we educate and inform them of the importance of having Medi-Cal and long-term health care plan. Everyone should have a doctor that they can call their own."
– Darrell Muniz, COO of the California Farmworker Foundation
Food Stability
& Nutrition
Alameda Alliance for Health invested in this clinically integrated program that supports FQHC clinic teams to prescribe food sourced from local organic farms and pairs it with trauma-informed health coaching from a community-based organization to treat, prevent, and reverse chronic conditions and address food insecurity.
“Alameda Alliance for Health was bold and visionary in seeing the possibility of Food as Medicine and investing in Recipe4Health, which allowed us to develop a nationally recognized model. We are lifted up as a Food as Medicine model that equitably sources food from BIPOC farmers growing food regeneratively and organically."
– Steven Chen, Chief Medical Officer and Founder of Recipe4Health
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