...Affordable, Quality Access for All

Working Partnerships strives to ensure that all families have access to quality health services and a strong health delivery system. Through a deep connection with our constituents, innovative policy thinking, and experience at building effective coalitions, Working Partnerships seeks to build local health care programs that can be replicated in other regions or serve as a statewide model for change.

Current Projects:

Healthy Workers is a new model for providing affordable health insurance to uninsured adults working for small businesses. The program passed the California State Legislature in 2007 and is currently awaiting approval from the California Department of Managed Health Care.  It will launch in early 2010 with an initial target of 1,000 enrollees. For more information on this program, contact our staff.

Universal Prevention is a program to improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.   Universal Prevention focuses on prevention in two ways. First, it expands access to preventive health care services, such as cancer screenings and testing for diabetes and heart disease. Second, it creates incentives for improved access to fresh foods and greater opportunities for exercise.  For more information on this program, contact our staff.

Past Projects:

Children’s Health Initiative (CHI). In 2001, Working Partnerships pioneered a first-in-the-nation effort to achieve universal health insurance for children on a countywide level. Today, this program provides health coverage to more than 161,000 Santa Clara County kids. Once enacted locally, we provided technical assistance to other California counties as they set up their own Children’s Health Initiatives.  CHI has now been replicated in thirty counties and has been proposed as a statewide program. CHI website. CHI Workbook.

Downtown San Jose Health Clinic. When Downtown’s only hospital closed, Working Partnerships worked with County officials and community leaders to look for alternative ways to provide much needed health services to the neighborhood’s historically underserved residents.  In 2008, we teamed up with County leaders to lead an overwhelmingly successful ballot initiative (Measure A) that included $50 million to assist with capital expenses for a new health clinic downtown.


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