Medica Foundation Provides
$30,000 Grant for Program in Becker County
MINNEAPOLIS, January 29, 2007 — The Medica Foundation in its second cycle of funding for 2006 made a $30,000 grant to the Minnesota Consortium for Advance Rural Psychology Training program. The program supports training, development and retention of mental health resident psychologists practicing in rural Minnesota communities. Becker has been identified as a community of focus for 2007.
“The Medica Foundation recognizes the need for behavioral health services throughout Minnesota,” said Rob Longendyke, executive director. “We are pleased to be able to provide this much needed funding and look forward to working with our partners on making improvements to access and continuity of these essential services in Becker County.”
In 2006, the Medica Foundation provided $1.5 million in funding for projects throughout the state, including several that address access to behavioral health services and health care issues in rural Minnesota.
About the Medica Foundation: The Medica Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable grant-making foundation and a sister organization to Medica Health Plans, a Minnesota-based nonprofit HMO. The Foundation generally seeks to fund community-based programs and initiatives that can provide sustainable, measurable improvements in the availability, access and quality of healthcare.
Email:
foundation@medica.com; Phone: 952/992-2060
About Medica: Medica (www.medica.com) is Minnesota’s largest HMO, largest PPO and leading non-profit and independent provider of health plans. Medica has more than 1.3 million members and nearly 27,000 providers in a regional health care network service area that is available to 98 percent of Minnesotans and a growing number of adjoining counties in Wisconsin, North Dakota and South Dakota. Medica also offers national network coverage to employers who also have employees outside the Medica regional network. Medica has the highest accreditation, Excellent, from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA
®) for the commercial health plans it provides to Minnesotans and North Dakotans and for Medicaid HMO plans. Medica’s vision is to become the community’s health plan of choice, trusted for its integrity, respected for its service, and admired for its commitment to innovation and efficiency.
For more information, contact:Greg Bury
Senior Communications Manager
Office: 952-992-8437
Cell: 612-810-4556
E-mail:
greg.bury@medica.com###