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Vail Health Launches Community SafeHealth to Help Improve Health for Community’s Uninsured and Underinsured
“We are so grateful for the Rubenstein Children’s investment in Vail Health and this new initiative,” said Vail Health Foundation President Dan Pennington. “Their generosity and commitment to health and wellness will be felt across the entire community, helping those who need it the most.”
VAIL DAILY
3 March 2021
New Vail Health program aims to create a stronger workforce, literally.
Community SafeHealth, which launched in January, gives local workers access to costly health care services.
Vail local Ellie Rubenstein (who, along with her siblings, contributed $1 million to launch the Community SafeHealth program at Howard Head Sports Medicine) said she wants to show, through the program, that prevention works, and can provide a solution communities aren’t seeing from government or health care industry programs.
“I stand [by] a bottom’s up, community driven approach,” she said. “I think community health is far more important than adding regulation.”
In starting Community SafeHealth, “if it would have been government, or for-profit, I don’t think that the collaboration element would have been there,” Rubenstein said.