Health Happens with Prevention
Overview
The Health Happens with Prevention (HHP) workgroup is embarking on an ambitious campaign to promote a health care open enrollment season in Boyle Heights. While in prior years Covered California’s open enrollment media campaign may have simply served to remind some Boyle Heights residents of a program for which they were ineligible, starting in 2015, it will serve a different purpose. The HHP workgroup is leveraging existing media outreach and conversations around Covered California’s open enrollment period to spark conversations and enrollment into health care coverage. With programs like My Health LA bringing health care access to those otherwise eligible for other programs, there truly now is a program for everyone.
Policy Campaign
Starting this fall, the HHP workgroup is embarking on an ambitious campaign to promote a health care open enrollment season in Boyle Heights.
While in prior years Covered California’s open enrollment media campaign may have simply served to remind some Boyle Heights residents of a program for which they were ineligible, starting in 2015, it will serve a different purpose.
Programs like My Health LA bringing health care access to those otherwise eligible for other programs.
Finally, the HHP workgroup is working with key institutions in Boyle Heights like schools and churches to bring healthcare enrollment for programs like My Health LA into places of trust in Boyle Heights. Every open enrollment season, Boyle Heights residents will know to check on their health coverage and will know that they only need to reach their local school, church, or community center if they, or anyone they know, needs to enroll.
Upcoming Events
Our Impact
Policies Passed
- 2014: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors creates the My Health LA program and commits $61 million per year to provide a no-cost health care program to uninsured Los Angeles County residents regardless of immigration status. The program will support an estimated 146,000 people in Los Angeles.
System and Practice Change
- March 2014: Implemented a Medical Legal Community Partnership at the Wellness Center.
- April 2015: Successfully negotiated an agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services to permit the Boyle Heights hub to conduct off-site enrollment into Medi-Cal and My Health LA. Currently, enrollment is only permitted at clinics.
Health Happens with Prevention Grantees and Partners
- Clinica Romero
- The Wall Las Memorias Project
- Maternal and Child Health Access
- LAC+USC Medical Center Foundation, Inc. (The Wellness Center)
- Alliance for California Traditional Arts
- Casa 0101
- Southern California Education Fund (OneLA)
- Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles (NLS)
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