'Grandparents and Books' Honored With Community Service Award.WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 1999-- Blue Shield of California Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health insurance provider headquartered in San Francisco, California. An independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Blue Shield of California is an incorporated, wholly owned subsidiary of California Physicians' will honor the "Grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl and Books" program of the Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) system serves the residents of Los Angeles, California. with the "Ageless Heroes Community Service Award" on April 30. Beginning in 1987 this program was created to meet the needs of two groups of Los Angeles residents -- the one-third of elderly seniors living alone and needing meaningful contact with others and the over 200,000 Los Angeles children who have no one to care for them after school and who have among the lowest reading scores in California. This program has grown from the Los Angeles Public Library to a statewide program bringing people together from diverse cultural, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds to share in the love of reading. The Library grandparents serve as positive role models for the children, fostering intergenerational understanding, emphasizing the joy of reading and increasing reading skills. "Grandparents and Books embodies the spirit of the Ageless Heroes program, bridging the generations by employing grandparents to help children experience a love of learning," said Lisa Rubino, Senior Vice President and Chief Executive of Blue Shield's Medicare Region. "We are pleased to be recognizing this excellent program." In addition to the Community Service Award, Grandparents and Books will receive a $2,500 gift from Blue Shield Blue Shield A US not-for-profit health care insurer that is a reimbursement intermediary for physicians. Cf Blue Cross. . "Ageless Heroes" was created by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Blue Shield of California, an independent member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, is one of the state's leading health care companies, with 2.1 million HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, and PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there members and $2.6 billion in annual revenue. The 886,000-member HMO is one of the fastest growing in the state. The 50,000-physician PPO network is the largest in California. The not-for-profit health plan was founded in San Francisco in 1939 as the nation's first medical service prepayment plan. |
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