Grant expands services in South Sacramento

Kaiser Permanente gave a $442,000 grant to the County of Sacramento’s Department of Health and Human Services to expand access to primary care and health education for uninsured patients in the south area who suffer from complex chronic diseases, such as asthma, diabetes and heart disease. The grant, from Kaiser Permanente’s Safety Net Partnership program, will be used to expand access and enhance chronic disease management programs at the South City Health Center, the county’s southern most county-operated clinic.

Located at 7171 Bowling Drive, it has more than 12,000 patient visits annually and serves an ethnically diverse, uninsured and underinsured population of adults and children. The clinic is using the grant to fund additional staff to provide chronic disease management and individualized health education to patients diagnosed with chronic illnesses.