UHPP Honored for Community Outreach

The October 2014 issue of Utah Business magazine features their annual Healthcare Heroes winners—including UHPP, which received an award for our Community Outreach. 

Earlier this week UHPP joined 23 other honorees from Utah’s medical and healthcare community to be recognized at a luncheon event at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center.

Here’s what Utah Business wrote about us:

Utah Health Policy Project
Founded in 2006, Utah Health Policy Project (UHPP) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that focuses on healthcare solutions for underserved Utahns. As the Affordable Care Act began to take effect, one of UHPP’s top priorities was enrolling as many Utahns in the new insurance options as possible. To that end, UHPP joined with other community partners to create Take Care Utah, a consortium of organizations that provides trained enrollment specialists to help people find and better understand their new healthcare options.
UHPP, working with United Way of Salt Lake 211 and the Association for Utah Community Health, is a federally funded lead administrator of the collaboration. “In some states, enrollment assistance, surprisingly, can be competitive. But we, in Utah, decided to work together to get the job done. We openly refer clients and share resources and best practices in the shared goal of maximizing enrollment into health insurance,” says Matt Slonaker, executive director of UHPP.

The results speak for themselves. Utah exceeded its 2013-14 enrollment goal by 148 percent, performing better than all of its peer states. It also enrolled the highest percentage among the “young invincibles” age group.

“Our goal was to simplify a complicated and controversial topic like health reform,” says Slonaker. “UHPP’s ‘just the facts’ approach emphasizes the needs of real Utah families and how the ACA might help them.”