$15K gift to help low-income residents with public transit in the West Plains area - West Plains Daily Quill

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UnitedHealthcare insurance group has donated $15,000 to Missouri Rural Health Association (MRHA) to support HealthTran, its transportation programming for low-income families which serves the Quill circulation area.

MRHA received the grant for its HealthTran initiative to help address transportation issues for Medicaid and Medicare dual-eligible plan participants in 10 rural south-central Missouri counties. The grant will fund direct transportation support for approximately 100 people who are unable to access Missouri’s Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) program and do not have financial resources for health-related transportation.

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$15K gift to help low-income residents with public transit in the West Plains area - West Plains Daily Quill

Similarly, all counties have residents who depend on bicycling and walking for basic transportation. In many cases, these needs are unmet as well.

Kudos to UnitedHealthcare for taking one small step to help improve this situation.

More information about the lack of access to transit, bicycling, and walking across rural Missouri, and the impact this has on the health and wellbeing of those who live in small town and rural Missouri:

http://mobikefed.org/2016/01/research-lack-public-transit-and-safe-place...