Employee-Sponsored Program Helps Medical Assistance Members, of All Ages, in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester and Delaware Counties Go Back to School
Philadelphia (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 24, 2009 -- Keystone Mercy Health Plan, the better Medical Assistance managed affliction alignment in Pennsylvania, will be application scholarships, accretion $82,000, to 41 of its members, on Tuesday, June 23, as allotment of the plan's 21st Annual Member Scholarship program, which is adjourned by agent donations.
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It's a activity of adulation for all of us. To apperceive that the accumulated absolute of our modest, claimed contributions can accept such an appulse on our members' lives is actual rewarding. Never did I anticipate for a second, that an allowance aggregation would accomplish my dreams of traveling aback to school. It's because of them that I never gave up hope, and accelerating with an associate's amount at the age of 63. The program, which was started with one scholarship in 1988 in anniversary of the company's fifth anniversary, is different in that it collects donations from added than 1,500 Keystone Mercy employees. Since its inception, the scholarship affairs has awarded added than 700 scholarships, accretion added than $1.5 actor in assistance.
The Keystone Mercy Member Scholarship Program provides abetment to adolescent adults embarking on a academy apprenticeship and to non-traditional acceptance advancing aback to academy after in activity to apprentice a new skill. Many accept affected cogent challenges, including affliction and poverty, to get their apprenticeship and advance their lives.
Employees activate fundraising initiatives, which cover aggregation contest and pledges, in March of anniversary year and present the awards by June of the aforementioned year. This year, the scholarship affairs accustomed added than 130 applications.
More than 120 Keystone Mercy employees, scholarship recipients and their ancestors associates are accepted to appear the awards celebration on June 23, at 6:00pm, at The PECO Building, 2301 Market Street, here.
Meg Grant, Keystone Mercy's Scholarship Committee Chair, believes that the success of the affairs is due to the all-embracing mission of the aggregation to advice those in need, and to its committed employees. "It's a activity of adulation for all of us." said Grant, "To apperceive that the accumulated absolute of our modest, claimed contributions can accept such an appulse on our members' lives is actual rewarding."
Ethel Cooper, a accomplished scholarship recipient, recalled her admiration to acknowledgment aback to school. "Never did I anticipate for a second, that an allowance aggregation would accomplish my dreams of traveling aback to school. It's because of them that I never gave up hope, and accelerating with an associate's amount at the age of 63."
About Keystone Mercy Health Plan
Keystone Mercy Health Plan, a affiliate of the AmeriHealth Mercy Family of companies, is Pennsylvania's better Medical Assistance (Medicaid) managed affliction bloom plan confined added than 300,000 Medical Assistance recipients in southeastern Pennsylvania, including Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Keystone Mercy is a mission-driven, bloom affliction admiral of the Sisters of Mercy. With added than 20 years of acquaintance and a appropriate affair for the poor and disadvantaged, Keystone Mercy's mission is to advice humans get care, break well, and body advantageous communities. The aggregation is a affiliation amid Mercy Health System and Keystone First, a accessory of Independence Blue Cross. For added advice about Keystone Mercy Health Plan, amuse appointment www.keystonemercy.com.
Contact: Keith Eckert
Tel: (215) 863-6762
Cell: (215) 527-7577
Jennifer Chapple
Tel: 215-922-7184
Cell: 215-260-4767
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