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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation

selects class for 2010-2011

Massachusetts Institute for Community Health Leadership

News Release

Contact: Lindsey Tucker

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BOSTON – Sixteen emerging leaders in health care access have been named to the sixth class of the Massachusetts Institute for Community Health Leadership (MICHL). MICHL is designed to help those with leadership potential increase their personal impact and enhance their health organization’s influence in the health care system. The 18-day educational program takes place over the course of nine months, offering a highly experiential curriculum, with classroom work, peer-to-peer exchanges and collaborative learning. During the program, students develop and implement a project that addresses a health care issue impacting the uninsured and low-income people in Massachusetts.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has awarded $1,205,000 in grants to 24 community organizations in Massachusetts whose missions are dedicated to promoting the health care needs of uninsured and low-income residents. The grants range from $40,000 to $75,000 per year, and represent the first of two years of funding.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has awarded $1.25 million in grants to 11 coalitions around the Commonwealth to address health care disparities. Each coalition will receive $113,636.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has launched an online resource dedicated entirely to Massachusetts health reform. The new website offers the most thorough and accurate picture to-date of what the state's groundbreaking health reform law does, how it is working, and what still remains to be done. In its fifth year of implementation, Massachusetts health reform remains a resounding success, resulting in the coverage of nearly 400,000 newly insured Commonwealth residents and serving as a model for national health reform. The new site is the first comprehensive clearinghouse of resources on Massachusetts health reform. It captures the unique accomplishments of the law, the work of stakeholders across the state to realize and sustain reform, and the implications of the Massachusetts experience for national health reform.

 Eleven medical journalists from across the nation today are being named to the 2011 class of the Health Coverage Fellowship.