UnitedHealthcare donated Sesame Street reading corners to 15 health
centers throughout Iowa to encourage young children to read and learn
more about healthy living.
Left to Right: Kimberly Kolakowski, Director of Integrated Health Service; Kim Manning; Director of Marketing and Community Outreach, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan; Catherine DeMasi, Assistant Director of Integrated Health Service. (Source: UnitedHealthcare Community Plan)
UnitedHealthcare employees recently delivered reading corners
to Children’s Square USA, Primary Health Care Inc. - Marshalltown, All
Care Health Center and Myrtue Medical Center – assembling tables and
chairs, decorating the space and providing health and nutrition
information.
Sesame Street reading corners provide children visiting their doctors’
offices with a colorful place filled with age-appropriate books that
encourage reading and healthy-eating habits, and help make the visits
more enjoyable.
The donations are part of UnitedHealthcare’s Healthy Habits for Life
partnership with Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization
behind Sesame Street, which offers tools and resources to help parents
and caregivers gain a greater understanding of the relationship between
healthy habits and children’s healthy growth.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to
helping people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health
care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and
sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company offers
the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers,
military service members, retirees and their families, and Medicare and
Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 800,000
physicians and care professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care
facilities nationwide. Globally, UnitedHealthcare serves 45 million
people in health benefits and is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth
Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being
company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com
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