As part of our #80forOakland campaign, Blue Shield of CA partnered with the American Heart Association to bring this vital service to residents in Oakland. We’re thrilled to work with Roots because its mission aligns with our own: to provide high-quality, affordable health care to those in the community. Roots also aims to improve health outcomes for uninsured and low-income residents of East Oakland and the entire Bay Area.

Public Health Institute was one of six organizations that was awarded a grant in December 2018 from the Blue Shield of California Foundation, and is part of the Foundation’s long-term efforts to address the root causes of domestic violence through collaborative, community-based solutions. In this grantmaking round, the Foundation awarded a total of $2.4 million to work across multiple sectors to end domestic violence.

Blue Shield of California has launched a new advertising campaign in markets across the state. The campaign reflects the issues facing Californians and the nonprofit health insurance plan’s support to its plan members for their health, happiness and wellbeing.

Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan is improving healthcare outcomes for Medi-Cal members with ConsejoSano’s language appropriate and culturally relevant text-messaging service that helps patients engage with their physicians and care providers.

Blue Shield of California’s Narcotic Safety Initiative results show a 56 percent reduction in overall opioid use by members with chronic, non-cancer pain compared to 2014, exceeding the nonprofit health plan’s year-end 2018 goal by 6 percentage points.

Doctors and employees of Paradise Medical Group talk about how they survived California's deadliest wildfire and how they plan to keep the practice open and provide care to Butte County with the help of Blue Shield of California.

Blue Shield of California is playing a role to restore and enhance healthcare services for the Paradise, Calif., and immediate region. The company is donating nearly $2 million to help restore health care delivery and other services in response to the fires, helping doctors connect with their patients – even helping to rebuild the clinic in Paradise.