UnitedHealthcare Invests $5 million in Morgan’s Wonderland to Promote Health and Employment Equity for Individuals With Disabilities
17 Octubre 2022 - 9:46AM
Business Wire
This funding will enable the new
Multi-Assistance Center at Morgan's Wonderland to implement a
Practice Without Pressure program and an Employment Support Center
for individuals with disabilities
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Texas today announced a $5
million investment in The Multi-Assistance Center at Morgan’s
Wonderland (The MAC), a new one-stop-facility offering medical and
non-medical services for individuals with disabilities. With
UnitedHealthcare’s investment, The MAC will offer an Employment
Support Center and a Practice Without Pressure program as part of
its integrated service approach to remove two socioeconomic
barriers for people with special needs: access to health care and
stable employment.
The Employment Support Center's goal is to increase sustainable
inclusive employment. By offering a collaborative home for multiple
agencies, including the Texas Workforce Commission, and
community-based organizations, the Employment Support Center will
provide education, counseling and coaching to help individuals with
disabilities become and stay employed. The center will
simultaneously assist employers with the hiring and retention of
individuals with disabilities.
Additionally, this investment will allow The MAC to offer
Practice Without Pressure (PWP), a methodology that enables
individuals with disabilities to participate in their own health
and personal care without restraint and with a reduced need for
sedation. Working with the individuals, their caregivers and the
clinicians, a PWP Practice Specialist helps desensitize the
individual with a disability while humanizing services such as
dental care, blood draws, OB-GYN services, or MRI/X-ray.
“This is a unique opportunity for UnitedHealthcare to help break
two significant barriers to equity for people with disabilities —
access to health care and stable employment — through a single
partnership,” said Donald Langer, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community
Plan of Texas. “It is at the core of our mission to help people
live healthier lives by giving them the support they need, and
better care and employment outcomes are big components of
that.”
According to the CDC, disability affects approximately 5.4
million, or nearly 1 in 4 (26%) people in Texas. People with
disabilities experience specific health disparities and additional
unique problems in accessing health care, and frequently report
difficulty finding appropriately trained and willing providers.
“Individuals with disabilities often get very fragmented and
uncoordinated health care, which causes many barriers to
well-being,” said Allan Castro, CEO, The Multi-Assistance Center at
Morgan’s Wonderland. “Through this collaboration, we are helping
ensure that special-needs individuals of all ages have a place
where they can find the integrated medical and non-medical services
that they need.”
This investment is part of UnitedHealthcare’s long-term
commitment to eliminating health disparities and helping people
live healthier lives. In Texas, UnitedHealthcare serves more than
4,430,000 people enrolled in employer-sponsored, individual,
Medicare and Medicaid benefit plans, with a network of 988
hospitals, and over 114,000 physicians and other care providers
statewide.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people live healthier
lives and making the health system work better for everyone by
simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and
wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care
providers. In the United States, UnitedHealthcare offers the full
spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, and
Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with
more than 1.5 million physicians and care professionals, and more
than 6,700 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. The
company also provides health benefits and delivers care to people
through owned and operated health care facilities in South America.
UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group
(NYSE: UNH), a diversified health care company. For more
information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC
on Twitter.
About The Multi-Assistance Center at
Morgan’s Wonderland
The MAC at Morgan’s Wonderland is a first, a one-of-a-kind,
one-stop model for providing medical and non-medical services for
individuals with special needs of all ages. Services will be
provided by more than 30 community-based organizations and
coordinated through MAC staff members, known as Navigators. Service
delivery is designed to be comprehensive and to include medical,
therapeutic, social, and community-based services by organizations
aligned with the MAC Navigators. The navigation system is uniquely
designed for The MAC to provide better outcomes and experiences for
individuals with disabilities; it’s also uniquely designed to
provide improved coordination and communication among the different
providers. The MAC is located at 5210 Thousand Oaks Drive in
Northeast San Antonio. For more information, visit
www.MorgansWonderlandMAC.com.
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