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Florida's Top Health Care Nonprofits Honored With 2009 Sapphire Awards
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Today, seven of Florida's top nonprofits received awards for their work in improving the health of Florida's uninsured and underserved at The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida's 2009 Sapphire Award ceremony.
The Sapphire Award is Florida's only statewide award that recognizes and promotes organizations that have demonstrated excellence in addressing health disparities within their communities.
I.M. Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless, Beaches Community Healthcare - A Sulzbacher Clinic
An extension of downtown Jacksonville's widely successful Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless, Beaches Community Healthcare (Beaches) received an Honorable Mention and $25,000 during The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida Sapphire Award presentation. Beaches provides access to basic medical care to the homeless and uninsured working poor populations of Atlantic, Neptune and Jacksonville beaches. In addition to onsite services, Beaches' "HOPE Team" reaches out to homeless populations living in unsheltered locations to deliver prescriptions, basic medical supplies, clothing and personal hygiene products and to transport them to clinics, and, if they are willing, to shelter.
In the first quarter of 2009, Beaches provided 636 primary health services for 395 people and connected eligible clients to patient assistance medication valued at $7,552.
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The opening of Beaches Community Healthcare - A Sulzbacher Clinic marked the first time the cities of Jacksonville, Atlantic and Neptune beaches had a full-time health care provider for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. The clinic is a satellite facility of the I.M. Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless.
Roger Wray, DDS; John Bowls; Janice Kiernan and Elizabeth Sullivan, Beaches Community Healthcare. Cindy Funkhouser; Audrey Moran, Beaches Community Healthcare and Randy Kammer, president, board of directors, The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida.
The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida is a leading health philanthropy that funds programs operated by community-based, nonprofit organizations in Florida that serve the health care needs of uninsured and underserved individuals. The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida is a separate, philanthropic affiliate of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) incorporated in the state of Florida. The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida, and its parent, BCBSF, are independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, an association of independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. For more information on The Blue Foundation for a Healthy Florida, please visit its web site at www.bluefoundationfl.com.