Housing Works receives $300,000 grant from Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation
Representatives of the Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (BC/BS) Foundation, EngageWell IPA, and Housing Works leadership joined elected officials, including Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, in a formal grant presentation and ribbon-cutting at a new health facility in East Harlem recently. The event was in celebration of Housing Works’s new Community Health Center at 145 East 125 th Street in Manhattan.
The grant will support EngageWell IPA’s Care Your Way digital intervention, a model that delivers fresh, healthy food boxes, and prepared meals to the doorsteps of people experiencing food insecurity and other chronic conditions.
“The Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation works to promote health equity by
focusing on improving the wellbeing of New Yorkers with the greatest health-related social
needs through our community partnerships and collaborative programs,” said Dr. Lisa
Thompson, plan performance medical director at Anthem. “We at Anthem are thrilled that this innovative grant is being commemorated alongside the ribbon-cutting for Housing Works newest health center. The center will increase access to much-needed resources.”
EngageWell’s Care Your Way program is an integrated model that provides clients a choice in how and where they receive care and treatment—either face-to-face or virtually. It addresses common socioeconomic barriers to positive health outcomes, such as food insecurity and medication adherence, which leads to higher patient satisfaction, improved engagement in preventive care and treatment, and reduced avoidable healthcare spending. Moreover, as food insecurity grows due to COVID-19, post-pandemic inflation, and rollbacks on emergency SNAP benefits, EngageWell is leveraging smartphone technology to modernize and destigmatize residents’ experience with an outdated food safety net system.
Housing Works’s new East Harlem Community Health Center will bring primary care, psychiatry, and psychotherapy services to the corner of 125 th Street and Lexington Avenue, for expanded access to compassionate care that addresses a number of chronic conditions and other needs in the community.
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