HAN member AtlantiCare announced VISION 2030, a 6-year plan to improve social determinants of health (including reducing food insecurity by 6 percent and unsheltered homelessness by 20 percent, while increasing life expectancies by 5 years) and expanding medical education opportunities (including YOUniversity, a clinical career program to grow talent locally that educates and trains students by providing hands-on experience outside the classroom and pays for their education and compensates their work while learning).
From the BreakingAC article:
Vision 2030 sets lofty goals for the next six years, including helping feed and house residents, and even educate and employ local talent.
“We’re not just in the business of delivering health care, we’re in the people business,” AtlantiCare CEO Michael Charlton said.
Atlantic County’s health status is 18th out of the state’s 21 counties, he pointed out, with above-average instances of HIV, smoking, premature death and obesity. There is a 4.7-year decrease in life expectancy.
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