ICHS community advocates who will assist underserved patients and groups on the Eastside (from left): Miran Hothi, Duby Monteros, Alexandra Poseukova, and Blanca Lujan Westrich.
Eastside patients who are traditionally underserved when it comes to health care, including low income, non-English speaking, and uninsured and underinsured immigrants and refugees, will receive help thanks to a grant awarded recently to International Community Health Services (ICHS).
The ICHS Bellevue Community Advocacy Program Expansion (B-CAPE) program will benefit from a $208,638 grant from Pacific Hospital Preservation & Development Authority (Pacific Hospital PDA).
The grant provides additional resources to the program to help reduce health disparities and improve access to health care for low-income, limited English proficient (LEP), and uninsured/underinsured Bellevue-area immigrants and refugees.
The grant will allow the hiring of Community Advocates who will provide group-level and one-on-one community-based outreach, health education, patient navigation services, and referrals to target populations on the Eastside, through the B-CAPE program. (end)