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UnitedHealthcare Awards $5.2 Million in Grants to California Nonprofits – $806,500 to Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation, Plumas District Hospital

Grants support nine California nonprofit organizations to strengthen youth wellness, care delivery and health technology in underserved communities

GRASS VALLEY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Two Northern California nonprofit hospitals have been awarded a total of $806,500 in grants from UnitedHealthcare to help improve health care services and wellness programs for local patients and community residents.

The grants are part of $5.2 million UnitedHealthcare is awarding to nine health care organizations to support nonprofit clinics and hospitals that improve health care services for underserved communities statewide.

Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation ($699,500) and Plumas District Hospital ($107,000) received the funding to support wellness and medical education programs and improve the delivery of health care services in Northern California.

The announcement was made at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley where community leaders participated in a check presentation and learned about how the funding will be used to expand the hospital’s eClinical Works program, an initiative to expand electronic health records and health information technology systems.

The grant will help Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital serve rural clinics throughout the region, providing them access to health information exchange systems and advanced technology to better serve patients. The funding is in addition to a $334,268 grant the organization received from UnitedHealthcare in 2008 that helped the hospital start its health information technology program.

“This grant from UnitedHealthcare supports our investment in new technologies that is helping us serve rural community clinics throughout the region,” said Kimberly Parker, executive director, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation. “These funds are helping expand our eClinical Works program that enables us to deliver health care services to more people in our community, particularly people living in rural areas.”

Plumas District Hospital in Plumas has received $107,000 to expand educational and outreach services for women diagnosed with gestational diabetes in the region. Plumas County has seen a significant increase in perinatal risk factors in the last eight years, the highest percentage of which are related to diabetes – either a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis prior to pregnancy or development of gestational diabetes during pregnancy. In 2011, 24 percent of Plumas District Hospital‘s obstetric patients were diagnosed with gestational diabetes and …read more
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A California raceway crash killed a race car owner and the young cousin of the teenage driver whose vehicle careened off the track before it struck the two victims, authorities said Sunday.

Dale Wondergem Jr., 68, and Marcus Johnson, 14, were in the pit area when they were hit about 6 p.m. Saturday at the Marysville Raceway Park, about 40 miles north of Sacramento, according to the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department. Wondergem, of Grass Valley, was pronounced dead at the scene, and Marcus Johnson, of Santa Rosa, was pronounced dead shortly after arrival at a hospital, authorities said.

Marcus Johnson was identified by authorities as the cousin of 17-year-old driver Chase Johnson, who was not injured in the collision. The younger victim was not an official member of his cousin’s crew. Authorities are investigating why he was in the pit area, according to Undersheriff Jerry Read said.

The Marysville raceway was hosting the California Sprint Car Civil War Series on the opening day of its season. Wondergem owned one of the race cars at the track Saturday, but not the one involved in the crash, Read said.

The crash occurred when six or seven “winged sprint cars” were doing warm-up laps before the start of a scheduled race. Chase Johnson‘s car left the track at an undetermined speed and hit Wondergem and Johnson before it tipped on its side, sheriff’s officials said.

The Yuba County Sheriff’s Department and California Highway Patrol are investigating the cause of the crash. Investigators will conduct autopsies on the victims on Monday and Tuesday.

No one else was injured in the crash, and spectators were never in jeopardy, authorities said.

Messages left for the Marysville Raceway‘s spokesman and promoters were not immediately returned Sunday.

Chase Johnson of Penngrove is a senior at Petaluma High School north of San Francisco and is a fourth-generation race car driver, according to his website. He did not respond to an email seeking comment Sunday.

Johnson has been racing for three years at the Petaluma Speedway, where he’s won multiple races and was last year’s series champion. His father, grandfather and great-grandfather were also champion drivers in Petaluma, where the family owns a muffler shop, said Ron Lingron, the track announcer at Petaluma Speedway

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