Aetna Better Health of Virginia recently donated $100,000 in community grants to five non-profit organizations in Virginia that are committed to helping improve health care and the quality of life for the people of Virginia.
“We are so pleased to help these organizations, who are doing so much to improve the lives of Virginians,” Roger Gunter, Aetna Better Health of Virginia CEO, said. “We are committed to improve the access to quality health care in Virginia, and we know that good health is linked with quality of life as well.”
The grants paid out by Aetna include $50,000 paid to The Health Wagon, which operates mobile and stationary clinics; $20,000 to Virginia Supportive Housing, which helps homeless people find stable housing; $20,000 to the YMCA of Central Virginia Summer Learning Loss Prevention Program, which will go toward scholarships for children in first to third grade in low-income areas; $8,000 to the Remote Area Medical Health Expedition, which will further develop plans to provide families in isolated areas that are medically underserved with free dental, medical and vision services; and $2,500 to the Alzheimer’s Association of Central and Western Virginia, which will support the annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s.
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