Health Equity
Impact Report
2021-2022
Health Equity
Impact Report
2021-2022
Welcome
The idea behind Heluna Health is remarkably simple: all people deserve to lead healthy lives; if they need care and they are of limited means, they should have the same access to quality services and accurate information as anyone else. Enhancing the health, wellness, and resilience of the communities we serve is our mission, and for more than 50 years, we have been hard at work on that goal.
One of our major achievements in the 2021-2022 fiscal year was rolling out COVID-19 testing in hundreds of schools throughout Los Angeles County. In this impact report, you will read about how we launched and administered this program for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The logistical challenges of this rapid scale up were numerous, but we met them all; building on this achievement, we assumed the administration of COVID-19 testing in most Los Angeles County schools for 2022-23.
To continue making progress in health equity and to better serve our communities, Heluna Health is helping prepare the next generation of dedicated population health workers. This report spotlights doula (or birth attendant) training provided by three of our current program partners—two in the San Francisco Bay Area, and one in Southern California. With legislation in California recently authorizing Medi-Cal to cover doula services, this type of care for expecting parents will become more accessible in the years ahead. Our partner doula programs are increasing a diverse pipeline of these important healthcare workers. We also feature a story on internship programs offered by Heluna Health, including through our Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and in partnership with a variety of academic institutions. These programs, which train college, graduate, and medical school students and public health workers who want to expand their skillsets, are our investment in the future.
Finally, we are delighted to feature in this report our collaboration with Lalo Alcaraz, a nationally syndicated and award-winning cartoonist, who is enabling Heluna Health to introduce culturally appropriate content through an artistic lens. Lalo’s ability to connect with the populations we serve is helping us to reach people in different ways by contributing his talent to new Heluna Health projects.
Every day, we are seeking to enhance the availability of equitable care and resources across the population health spectrum. I am confident that with the help of our supporters and the creative energy, expertise, and determination of our teams, we will expand proven methods and introduce new, evidence-based interventions so that we can successfully address the social determinants of health and improve the quality of life for those who live in the communities we serve.
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Blayne Cutler, MD, PhD
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Blayne Cutler, MD, PhD
The idea behind Heluna Health is remarkably simple: all people deserve to lead healthy lives; if they need care and they are of limited means, they should have the same access to quality services and accurate information as anyone else. Enhancing the health, wellness, and resilience of the communities we serve is our mission, and for more than 50 years, we have been hard at work on that goal.
One of our major achievements in the 2021-2022 fiscal year was rolling out COVID-19 testing in hundreds of schools throughout Los Angeles County. In this impact report, you will read about how we launched and administered this program for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The logistical challenges of this rapid scale up were numerous, but we met them all; building on this achievement, we assumed the administration of COVID-19 testing in most Los Angeles County schools for 2022-23.
To continue making progress in health equity and to better serve our communities, Heluna Health is helping prepare the next generation of dedicated population health workers. This report spotlights doula (or birth attendant) training provided by three of our current program partners—two in the San Francisco Bay Area, and one in Southern California. With legislation in California recently authorizing Medi-Cal to cover doula services, this type of care for expecting parents will become more accessible in the years ahead. Our partner doula programs are increasing a diverse pipeline of these important healthcare workers. We also feature a story on internship programs offered by Heluna Health, including through our Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, and in partnership with a variety of academic institutions. These programs, which train college, graduate, and medical school students and public health workers who want to expand their skillsets, are our investment in the future.
Finally, we are delighted to feature in this report our collaboration with Lalo Alcaraz, a nationally syndicated and award-winning cartoonist, who is enabling Heluna Health to introduce culturally appropriate content through an artistic lens. Lalo’s ability to connect with the populations we serve is helping us to reach people in different ways by contributing his talent to new Heluna Health projects.
Every day, we are seeking to enhance the availability of equitable care and resources across the population health spectrum. I am confident that with the help of our supporters and the creative energy, expertise, and determination of our teams, we will expand proven methods and introduce new, evidence-based interventions so that we can successfully address the social determinants of health and improve the quality of life for those who live in the communities we serve.
OUR MISSION
Heluna Health enhances the health, wellness,
and resilience of every community we serve
OUR Vision
Healthy, strong
communities for all
OUR Values
HELUNA HEALTH OVERVIEW
Heluna Health provides innovative services and evidence-based programs that improve the overall health and well-being of our communities.
OUR Values
HELUNA HEALTH OVERVIEW
Heluna Health provides innovative services and evidence-based programs that improve the overall health and well-being of our communities.
At Heluna Health, population health is personal. Through our partnerships and direct service population health programs, Heluna Health is leading the effort to eliminate health disparities for people living in vulnerable circumstances and creating change in systems and policies to improve health outcomes in every community we serve. For more than 50 years, Heluna Health has worked together with nonprofit and community-based organizations, public health agencies, healthcare systems, providers, and policymakers to strengthen health interventions and create equitable access to preventive services, primary care, nutrition, housing, early literacy resources, and more.
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Spotlight Stories
Spotlight Stories
Answering the Call for COVID Testing in Schools
“First, we had to understand the population and what the county had already done,” Dale says. “How often did schools need testing? What kinds of tests? Would we be supporting on-site testing or would schools be conducting the tests themselves? Would we be allocating funds to schools? Where would we get the test kits?” For every answer, there seemed to be two more questions.
With years of experience in program design, development, management, procurement, and implementation, Heluna Health leveraged its strengths to build the team, acquire the resources, and create a system from scratch to meet this public health need.
One of Dale’s first steps was to hire Katherine Churchwell as project manager. Churchwell was working on a mental health project for youth in the county and thought it would be inspiring to be part of the effort to prevent and control COVID-19 while helping develop her leadership skills. A big challenge was learning about the project while it was being created, with testing set to begin two weeks after she started. “I actively asked questions and actively listened,” she says.
“We hired contractors for on-site testing and quickly found suppliers for both rapid antigen and PCR tests,” says Dale, who was able to source tests even while they were in container ships at sea. “We built project management and administrative support for school outreach, and found a testing and software platform to track all test results. We were flying the plane while it was being built.”
Pressure soon mounted, because as schools reopened, the number of students testing positive for COVID-19 began to rise. The program was voluntary, and by November 2021, about 60 schools had signed up. But as COVID cases continued to increase, more schools opted in, so that by January 2022, Heluna Health was providing the administrative management for testing at 200 schools. Once the Omicron variant caused a spike in cases, more schools signed up, so that by the end of the school year, Heluna Health was supporting 370 schools.
Los Angeles County officials appreciated Heluna Health’s ability to surface solutions to barriers and act quickly. When the school year ended, Dale received another call from the county. This time, an administrator asked whether Heluna Health could take on testing for all schools during summer and for the following school year—a total of 1,200 schools.
What’s gratifying for Dale and the team is the impact they have made, beyond just getting the job done. Any time a test came back positive and the infected student was quarantined, the team knew that they were helping to protect other students and family members, having a ripple effect in keeping people healthy across the county.
Edith Hernandez, COVID-19 School Testing Program Manager with the LADPH Education Sector Exposure Management Unit, says that the success of the COVID-19 school testing program in the county “is largely due to our partnership with Heluna Health. For schools, having to create and manage a COVID-19 testing program, in addition to their existing educational responsibilities, was understandably overwhelming during the 2021-22 school year. Heluna Health built a system that ensured schools had the resources they needed to successfully implement COVID-19 testing programs and provided excellent customer support to the participating schools and youth programs.”
“I’m very lucky to have a team that’s always willing to help out and a boss who is so calm under pressure,” Churchwell says. Adds Dale, “We have an excellent project team with strong cohesion. There’s a lot of communication involved in making this work. We picked the right people.”
370
schools with COVID testing sites*
560,000
COVID-19 tests conducted**
**From 9/1/2021 to 6/24/2022
COVID-19 TEST POSITIVITY BY MONTH
Peter Dale
Chief Program Officer,
Heluna Health
Katherine Churchwell
Project Manager,
Heluna Health
Edith Hernandez
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
Doing Right by Doulas
“During my first delivery, I knew what I wanted and how to advocate for myself, but the color of my skin was a hindrance for others,” says De Cohen. Like many other Black women, De Cohen says that she was mistreated at the hospital, and her wishes ignored, because of her race. “I didn’t have care and support,” she says.
During her third delivery at the birthing center in Arcadia, California, the staff listened to her. The director of the center, Chemin Pérez, recognized that De Cohen had the intelligence, compassion, and other qualities to succeed in the maternal care field, and suggested she consider becoming a midwife. De Cohen eventually enrolled in a six-week doula training program offered by Happy Mama Healthy Baby Alliance (HMHBA), a Los Angeles-area doula provider and one of Heluna Health’s partner programs. Its executive director, Cordelia Hanna, was impressed by De Cohen and offered her a scholarship, later hiring her as a doula. De Cohen recently launched a doula business called Wisdoms Doula Services. She is currently enrolled in a midwifery school, will be working soon at New Life Midwifery, the Arcadia birthing center, and hopes to become a licensed midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC).
“Look at where Jazz is now,” says Hanna. “She’s going to touch so many lives.”
Data from the National Vital Statistics System showed that in 2020, the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 2.9 times the rate for non-Hispanic White women.1 Doulas have been shown to improve birth outcomes, including reducing the chances of preterm births.2 Until recently, few health plans have covered doula services, shutting out many low-income people. But that lack of coverage recently changed in California, when a state law known as the “Momnibus Act” took effect. As of January 1, 2023, doula services are now covered under Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid.
“There has been a flourishing of doula programs, which provided a different energy that applied pressure” on the legislature, says Dr. Zea Malawa, one of the experts who advocated for Momnibus, and Director of Expecting Justice, a San Francisco-based, Black-led collaborative and partner program of Heluna Health that offers doula training. “There’s so much racism toward birthing people in hospitals,” Malawa says. “The state responded to research that shows that doulas save Black mothers’ lives, Black mothers want it, and because of economic racism, many families can’t afford it.”
One outcome from the Momnibus law is that the need for trained doulas from Black, Brown, and Native American/Pacific Islander communities, where birth disparities are greatest, is certain to increase. Patients often report that they relate best to doulas who share their ethnic and racial background. So organizations that train doulas, such as Expecting Justice, HMHBA, and SisterWeb, a San Francisco-based doula service that is also a Heluna Health partner, focus on training doulas from the communities they serve, typically Black, Latina/o/x, and/or Pacific Islander communities.
While all doula training programs differ, most cover anatomy; stages of labor in the birth process; psychological aspects of pregnancy; birth and postpartum; and how to provide comfort, nutrition advice, and lactation guidance. SisterWeb is also piloting a trainee program with a stipend that Executive Director Marna Armstead says is like an apprenticeship. When students have completed the six-month course, Armstead says they will be better prepared to begin working as a doula, potentially with SisterWeb, which plans in the next year to increase the number of its doulas from eight to 15.
Expecting Justice, which has offered two free doula training programs since 2021, recently launched a free Workforce Development Program, which provides mentoring with seasoned doulas and teaches new doulas how to launch a practice. Both their doula trainees and those who go on to the Workforce Development Program are paid a barrier-removal stipend.
Through Heluna Health, both SisterWeb and HMHBA are able to offer their doulas full-time employment with a health plan and retirement benefits, something that’s almost unheard of in the burgeoning industry. SisterWeb also offers mental health counseling for its doulas and also supports Ubers for doulas who are attending births. Vanessa Castro, a former doula with SisterWeb who was recently promoted to Doula Program Coordinator, appreciates that she doesn’t have to work extraordinarily long hours. Before she was hired by SisterWeb, Castro once assisted on a birth that lasted 33 hours. She couldn’t leave the hospital because she was the only support for the parents. At SisterWeb, doulas must be relieved if they work 12 hours straight. “I get healthcare and support from a team that I wouldn’t necessarily get if I was working privately,” Castro says. “I feel comfortable with SisterWeb, and want to be here for a while.”
BENEFITS OF DOULA SUPPORT
2Kozhimannil, et al., Birth Issues in Perinatal Care, March 2016, 43(1), pp 20-27.
3Falconi, et al., eClinicalMedicine, Volume 50, 101531, August 2022.
Jazz De Cohen
Founder of Wisdoms Doula Services
Training a Population Health Workforce
After surmounting many obstacles, Araiza has achieved her goal. She is a degreed nutritionist, a lactation consultant, and future registered dietitian with Heluna Health’s Breastfeeding and Nutrition Services (BFNS) team, which includes the WIC federal grant. Hired by Heluna Health’s WIC Program in December 2015, Araiza was one of eight employees selected in 2022 for its one-year Dietetic Internship program, one important step toward becoming a registered dietitian and a Supervising Nutritionist at WIC.
The Dietetic Internship program is one of several training opportunities in population health that Heluna Health offers. To help build a culturally sensitive and diverse workforce to mitigate racial bias in healthcare, Heluna Health is now expanding these efforts.
The Dietetic Internship that Araiza enrolled in was launched more than 25 years ago with a focus on community-based recruitment, and it has graduated nearly 150 dietetic interns, with 121 becoming registered dietitians. The internship inspired four other California WIC programs to invest in their workforce to also train future dietitians. In addition, Heluna Health’s WIC program acts as a preceptor to 60-70 interns per year from other dietetic internship programs across the U.S. and provides a WIC rotation for local area medical school students. Compared to most dietetic internships that can cost an average of more than $12,000 in total, the Heluna Health WIC Dietetic Internship is free to trainees.
Interns continue to get paid their hourly wage as Heluna Health employees, while working 20 hours a week, and retain full company benefits over the course of the internship. Once they finish the internship, they must commit to working for Heluna Health’s WIC team for three years.
“This program was created to provide opportunities for dietetic internships to our staff and to increase the number of registered dietitians that represent the communities we serve,” says Kiran Saluja, Executive Director of Heluna Health’s WIC program. “Diversity in the profession is the main goal. Opportunities for dietetic internships, a requirement for sitting for the registered dietitian exam, are competitive and expensive, and about 80 percent of registered dietitians are white. There are not enough Black, Hispanic, or Asian dietitians. We’re seeding people who can then become leaders in the profession.”
In a similar fashion, Heluna Health has just launched a program supporting the professional development needs of community health workers. Called Heluna Health’s Skill Builders, the program will fill in key professional gaps for the population health and the social services workforce, serve current Heluna Health program partners as a value-added benefit, and reach new potential partners as well.
“Every single one of us has seen, through the recent pandemic, how critical it is that we optimally train a more nimble, technologically savvy, diverse and collaborative public health workforce, so that we can more seamlessly and effectively address future public health threats,” says Heluna Health President and CEO Dr. Blayne Cutler. “We will all partner with and depend on these heroes to build a more robust layer of protection and a capacity for rapid response that will place us ahead of the curve, not struggling as we trail behind it.”
In 2018, an official from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University contacted Cutler to ask if Heluna Health had the capacity to partner on an internship program with its graduate students. Cutler, an alumna of the Mailman School, signed on. “Heluna Health is public health’s best kept secret,” Cutler says. “We partner on so many incredible projects directly addressing the core areas of expertise that all public health practitioners need to learn, that it seemed to me to be a natural, excellent fit. We are also highly focused, and increasingly so, on training the next generation of diverse public health leaders for the 21st century.”
The most recent Mailman interns have included one student who worked during the summer of 2022 in the research department at Heluna Health and a second who assisted SisterWeb, a Heluna Health partner that provides doula services in San Francisco. For SisterWeb, Nina Neale, now a second-year graduate student at Mailman, analyzed SisterWeb’s social media, created new templates for its newsletters, and assisted in organizing the agency’s digital communications files. Heluna Health’s research intern, Kasturi Bhamidipati, gathered, analyzed, and managed data on social safety net programs from counties throughout the U.S. as part of an outbreak preparedness project that Heluna Health is developing. She also gained proficiency conducting statistical analyses, used mapping software for data visualization, and coauthored a scientific paper. “The internship was a wonderful experience,” Bhamidipati says. “I learned so much.”
Cutler says that Heluna Health is interested in expanding the program with Columbia’s Mailman School and creating new internships with other universities, particularly those that serve a highly diverse student body. The Master of Public Health program at the University of California, Irvine recently agreed to partner with Heluna Health. As a Hispanic serving institution and one where 47% of its students are the first in their families to attend college, UCI is an exciting new addition to the internship program.
Discussions are also underway with the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. “Heluna Health has such broad reach and impact, in many of the areas that are of interest to students at the School of Medicine,” says Dr. Jonathan Finkelstein, Kaiser’s Senior Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship. Says Cutler, “The interns that have joined us have been exceptional and we look forward to accepting more, as bandwidth allows.”
DEMOGRAPHIC DATA ON STUDENT DIETITIANS*
HELUNA HEALTH’S WIC DIETETIC INTERNSHIP DIVERSITY BREAKDOWN 1995-2021
Julia Araiza
WIC dietitian and lactation consultant
Dr. Blayne Cutler
President and CEO, Heluna Health
Kasturi Bhamidipati
Recent Heluna Health intern
FEATURE: LALO ALCARAZ
Drawing the Line
If you are heading south through downtown Los Angeles on the 110 Freeway, it’s hard to miss the 96-foot tall, brightly painted mural on the side of the L.A. Department of Water and Power building that urges residents of L.A. to get their COVID-19 booster shots.
For more than 30 years, Alcaraz has used his art to fight injustice and inhumanity. He grew up near the U.S./Mexico border in San Diego with Mexican immigrant parents from Sinaloa and Zacatecas. Alcaraz’s personal experiences inform his work addressing pressing social issues that affect the Latino community—such as abuse at the border and farmworkers’ rights. Founder of POCHO, a leading Latino satirical website, and creator of La Cucaracha, a nationally syndicated daily comic strip that blends humor and biting social criticism, Alcaraz has been lauded by his peers for his “passion, dedication and brilliance [in] the fight for fair immigration at the border and justice for the Latino community.”
In his work with Heluna Health, Alcaraz first produced a visually striking representation of how the organization supports and advances health equity. Focused on the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program, the piece features clear and powerful messaging about the importance of nutrition, family resources, and school readiness programs in promoting the healthy development of children.
In early 2023, Alcaraz created for Heluna Health a short animation about maternal health and, specifically, doula programs—part of the organization’s focus on multi-generational family supports that have the potential for national impact.
Recognizing the need across the country for family engagement around literacy—and for high quality, multi-lingual, and culturally appropriate reading material for kids—Heluna Health has begun efforts to scale early childhood programming to new locations. Partnership with Alcaraz and other artists is vital to innovating children’s literature with characters and storylines that reflect local communities and encourage healthy life outcomes. Future projects include creating an imprint of children’s books and an animated series. “Joining forces with Heluna Health boosts my mission to bring positive cultural knowledge and helpful health information to the communities that need it most,” says Alcaraz. “And with their help, I can affect many more people than I can reach alone. It feels like a superhero team-up!”
AWARDS FOR ALCARAZ
Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Editorial Cartooning (2020 and 2021).
Six-time winner of the Southern California Press Award for Best Editorial Cartoon.
The Heluna Health Community
Heluna Health’s success starts and ends with its community, including our dedicated staff and the teams from our partners and direct service programs, the deserving people who benefit from our work, and the universe of key stakeholders who help us effect positive change in population health and preparedness. We could never reach our goals without the support of many generous individuals, including our board members and other philanthropic leaders, and the corporations, foundations, and government agencies that recognize the value of our mission.
Chairman of the Board
Alexander Baker, MBA
*For July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022
- 4BoneHealth
- Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
- California Health and Human Services Agency
- California Department of Public Health (CDPH)
- CDPH Center for Family Health
- CDPH Genetic Disease Screening Program
- CDPH Women, Infants, and Children Program
- CDPH Center for Healthy Communities
- CDPH Center for Infectious Diseases
- CDPH Division of Communicable Disease Control (DCDC)
- CDPH California Emerging Infections Program (CEIP)
- CDPH California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center (CAPTC)
- CDPH Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program
- CDPH Infectious Diseases Branch
- CDPH Microbial Diseases Laboratory (MDL)
- CDPH Vector Borne Disease Section (VBDS)
- CDPH Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory (VRDL)
- CDPH Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Control
- CDPH Tobacco Control Program (CTCP)
- CDPH California Youth Advocacy Network (CYAN)
- CDPH Saving Our Legacy Project (SOL)
- Carolyn Kordich Family Resource Center
- Cell-Ed
- Children & Families Commission of Orange County (CFCOC)
- City and County of San Francisco
- City and County of San Francisco (CCSF) Office of Financial Empowerment and Financial Justice Project
- San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH)
- San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team (SFHOT)
- San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH)
- SFDPH Applied Research, Community Health Epidemiology, and Surveillance (ARCHES)
- SFDPH Behavioral Health Services
- SFDPH Bridge HIV
- SFDPH Center for Data Science
- SFDPH Center for Learning and Innovation (CLI)
- SFDPH Center for Public Health Research (CPHR)
- SFDPH Community Health Equity and Promotion (CHEP)
- SFDPH Disease Prevention and Control (DPC)
- SFDPH Population Health Division
- SFDPH Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response
- SFDPH Public Health Laboratory
- Closed Eyes Open Heart
- CMV Workshop Fund
- Community Health Action Network (CHAN)
- Community Translational Research Institute (CTRI)
- County of Alameda
- Alameda County Health Care Services Agency
- Alameda County Public Health Department
- Alameda County Public Health Laboratory (ACPHL)
- County of Contra Costa
- Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS)
- CCHS Behavioral Health Division
- CCHS Public Health Division
- CCHS Senior Nutrition Program (Meals on Wheels)
- Contra Costa Health, Housing, and Homeless Services (H3)
- County of Orange
- Orange County Department of Education (OCDE)
- OCDE Alternative Education
- County of San Mateo
- County of Santa Clara
- Cycle for Heart and Climb for Heart
- Eastern Los Angeles Family Resource Center (ELAFRC)
- Expecting Justice
- Family Resource Centers Network of California (FRCNCA)
- Happy Mama Healthy Baby Alliance dba Wholistic Midwifery School of Southern California
- Health Consortium of Greater San Gabriel Valley (HC-SGV)
- Health Officers Association of California (HOAC)
- Immunization Coalition of Los Angeles County (ICLAC)
- Long Beach Early Childhood Education Committee (LBECE)
- Los Angeles Community Health Project (LACHP/CHPLA)
- Los Angeles Network for Enhanced Services (LANES)
- Los Angeles Partnership for Special Needs Children
- Rancho Santiago Community College District (RSCCD)
- RTI International
- San Francisco Health Network (SFHN)
- SFHN Ambulatory Care
- SFHN Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health
- SFHN Jail Health Services
- Shoreline Center for Eating Disorder Treatment
- SisterWeb
- Southern California Crossroads
- Sustain Hawaii
- TRAPMedicine
- Violence Prevention Coalition of Orange County
- Wilson High School Alumni Foundation
- Angels Childcare Food Program
- CinnaMoms
- County of Imperial
- County of Los Angeles (LAC)
- LAC Department of Health Services (DHS)
- Supportive Housing Services Master Agreement
- LAC Department of Public Health (LADPH)
- Temporary Personnel Services Master Agreement
- HIV/AIDS Transitional Case Management (TCM) LAC Jail System Program
- Little by Little School Readiness Program
- PHFE WIC
- San Jose State University
- WE in the World
- Whole Person Care
- Youth Development Services (YDS)
- Acme Bread
- Adamma Foundation
- Alameda County
- Allthrive Education, LLC
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- American Heart Association
- Angel Island Capital Management
- Angeles Community Health Center
- Anonymous (9)
- Anthem Blue Cross
- Applied Survey Research
- Marna Armstead
- Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
- Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Association of States and Territorial Health Officials
- Aurrera Health Group, LLC
- Alexander Baker
- Blue Shield of California Foundation
- Heather Briggs
- Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation
- California Community Foundation
- California Family Resource Association
- California HIV/AIDS Research Program
- California Primary Care Association
- Care Transformation Collaborative Rhode Island
- CDC Foundation
- Charles Drew University
- Child360
- Children & Families Commission of Orange County
- Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
- Cicatelli Associates, Inc
- City and County of San Francisco
- Office of Contract Administration Purchasing Division
- City of Hope
- City of Los Angeles
- Colorado Regional Health Information Organization
- Columbia University
- Community Health Alliance of Pasadena
- Community Health Council
- Corixa Corporation
- Corona-Norco Unified School District
- County of Contra Costa
- County of Imperial
- County of Los Angeles
- County of Marin SELPA
- County of Orange
- Orange County Health Care Agency
- County of San Mateo
- County of Santa Clara
- Crankstart Foundation
- Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Curtis
- Blayne Cutler
- Cypress Faith Foundation
- Susan De Santi
- Allison Domicone
- East Valley Community Health Center
- Economic Security Project
- Carladenise Edwards
- El Nido Family Centers
- El Proyecto del Barrio, Inc.
- Emanate Health
- Emerald Gate Charitable Trust
- Entertainment Industry Foundation
- Every Mother Counts
- Family Health International
- Fannie E. Rippel Foundation
- First 5 Los Angeles
- Flu Lab, LLC
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Friedman Family Foundation
- GARDP Foundation
- Garfield Health Center
- Genentech
- George Kaiser Family Foundation
- Gilead Sciences, Inc.
- Samantha Good
- Google, Inc.
- Dev Gopalan
- Celina Gorre
- Harm Reduction Coalition
- Health Care Agency
- Health Net
- Health Officers Association of California
- Hellman Foundation Fund
- Herald Christian Health Center
- Francesca Hessler
- Huntington Hospital
- ICON Government and Public Health Solutions, Inc (CRO)
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- Japanese Community Youth Council
- Robert R. Jenks
- Ciara Johnson
- Tamara Joseph
- Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- LA Care
- Lakeshore Learning Materials
- Leavitt Partners, LLC
- Los Angeles LGBT Center
- Nicole Macarchuk
- MacArthur Foundation
- Marathon Petroleum Foundation, Inc.
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
- Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc.
- Mission Neighborhood Health Center
- National 4-H Council
- National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)
- National Council of Jewish Women
- Von Nguyen
- NO/AIDS Task Force dba Crescent Care
- Michael Nuttall
- Jean C. O’Connor
- Oregon Health & Science University
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
- PepsiCo Foundation
- Pfizer
- Planned Parenthood Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley
- Pomona Community Health Center
- Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center
- Public Health Institute
- Erik and Ranesh Ramanathan
- Rancho Santiago Community College
- RAND Corporation
- Regents of the University of California
- Regents of the University of California-San Francisco
- Rhode Island Department of Health
- Sarah and Jimmy Rich
- Riverside Community Health
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Robin Hood Foundation
- Elizabeth Power Robison
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Rogers Family Foundation
- RTI International
- Somava Saha
- San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing
- San Francisco Department of Public Health
- San Francisco Foundation
- San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
- San Francisco Health Plan
- San Francisco Public Health Foundation
- San Jose State
- Allison Sander
- The Schmidt Family
- Seat Yourself
- Sierra Health Foundation
- Davida Silverman
- Sozosei Foundation
- Start Early
- State of California
- California Department of Developmental Services
- California Department of Education
- California Department of Public Health
- State of Illinois, Department of Public Health
- The Council of State Governments Ltd
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- The Estée Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation
- The Miller Foundation
- The Nonprofit Partnership
- Tipping Point
- Bonnie Toland-Zumbo
- Tulsa Community Foundation
- UniHealth Foundation
- United Way of Greater Los Angeles
- University of Kansas
- University of Miami
- University of North Carolina
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- USDA – Food and Nutrition Service
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)
- USDHHS – Administration for Children & Families
- USDHHS – Administration for Community Living
- USDHHS – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- USDHHS – Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- USDHHS – Food and Drug Administration
- USDHHS – Health Resources and Services Administration
- USDHHS – National Institutes of Health
- USDHHS – Office of National Coordinator for HIT
- USDHHS – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- National Park Service
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- USC Arcadia Hospital
- Sara Van Acker and Adam Weiss
- Vivian Vasallo
- Santosh Vetticaden
- ViiV Healthcare UK
- Violet World Foundation
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Walter and Elise Haas Fund
- Well Being Trust
- Wells Fargo
- Westat
- Yellow Chair Foundation
- Edward Yip
Executive Management Team
Blayne Cutler, MD, PhD
President and Chief
Executive Officer
Jordan Gadd, MA
Chief of Staff
Brian Gieseler, MBA
Chief Financial Officer
Kiran Saluja, MPH, RDN
Executive Director,
PHFE WIC Program
Peter Dale, CPCM, MA
Chief Program Officer
Jo Kay Ghosh, PhD
Director of Research
and Evaluation
Tim Seifert, JD
Chief Human Resources Officer
Board of Directors
Alexander Baker, MBA
Board Chair
Consultant
Santosh Vetticaden, MD, PhD, MBA
Vice Chair
Biotech Entrepreneur/
Co-founder, Visgenx Inc.
Robert R. Jenks, MBA
Treasurer
Managing Director,
Redbrook Partners LLC
Tamara Joseph, JD
Secretary
Chief Legal Officer,
Spero Therapeutics
Nwando Anyaoku, MD, MPH, MBA
Director
Chief Health Equity Officer, Swedish Health Services
Georgia Casciato, FACHE
Director
Consultant, Healthcare
Carladenise Edwards, PhD
Director
Consultant, Healthcare
Terhilda Garrido, MPH
Director
Founder, Camino Advisors
Celina Gorre
Director
CEO, WomenHeart
Nicole J. Macarchuk, JD
Director
Partner, Dechert, LLP
Hope Tarirai Mago, MBA
Director
Partner, HCAP Partners
Bonnie Midura, MPH
Director
Senior Program Manager,
The California Endowment
Sarah Mullen Rich, MBA
Director
Consultant, Healthcare Finance
Jean C. O’Connor, JD, MPH, DrPH, FACHE
Director
Managing Principal,
Health Management Associates
Vivian Vasallo
Director
Executive Director,
Delta Dental Institute
Edward Yip, JD
Director
Vice President, Legal and Compliance, Euclid Systems Corporation
Financials
Statements of Financial Position
June 30, 2022 and 2021
Assets
2022
2021
$
24,112,026
$
8,402,307
$
252,204,295
$
64,034,004
$
17,825,179
$
129,578,804
$
6,454,715
$
3,802,206
Total Assets
$
300,596,215
$
205,817,321
Financials
In fiscal year 2021 – 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to impact our programs and partners. Total fiscal year 2022 support and revenues reached $1.603 billion. The total expenses for fiscal year 2022 were $1.598 billion. In addition, Heluna Health’s total net assets grew to $19.2 million, up from $14.4 million the prior year, an increase of 33%, resulting from disciplined fiscal management.
Heluna Health’s audited financial statements for the year ending June 30, 2022, are available at helunahealth.org
Statements of Financial Position
June 30, 2022 and 2021
Assets
2022
2021
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 24,112,026
$ 8,402,307
Contracts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $92,210 and $9,595, respectively
$ 252,204,295
$ 64,034,004
Advances to programs, prepaid expenses, and other
$ 17,825,179
$ 129,578,804
Property and equipment, net
$ 6,454,715
$ 3,802,206
Total Assets
$ 300,596,215
$ 205,817,321
Liabilities
2022
2021
$
224,342,805
$
31,849,302
$
18,337,937
$
15,244,463
$
15,481,354
$
10,295,125
$
3,127,522
$
3,153,570
$
2,716,285
$
3,489,870
$
26,530
-
$
15,335,067
$
127,326,336
$
8,771
$
18,975
$
1,986,844
-
Total Liabilities
$
281,363,115
$
191,377,641
$
19,233,100
$
14,439,680
-
-
Total Net Assets
$
19,233,100
$
14,439,680
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
$
300,596,215
$
205,817,321
Liabilities
2022
2021
Accounts Payable and accrued expenses
$ 224,342,805
$ 31,849,302
Accrued payroll and related liabilities
$ 18,337,937
$15,244,463
Agency and other funds payable
$ 15,481,354
$ 10,295,125
Advance on grantor payments
$ 3,127,522
$ 3,153,570
Accountability for program assets
$ 2,716,285
$ 3,489,870
Deferred rent
$ 26,530
-
Deferred revenue
$ 15,335,067
$ 127,326,336
Capital lease obligations
$ 8,771
$ 18,975
Loan payable
$ 1,986,844
-
Total Liabilities
$ 281,363,115
$ 191,377,641
Net Assets-Unrestricted
$ 19,233,100
$ 14,439,680
-
-
Total Net Assets
$ 19,233,100
$ 14,439,680
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
$ 300,596,215
$ 205,817,321
Statement of Functional Expenses
Program Services
2022
$708,431,737
Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases Reopening Schools
$50,886,256
Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program
$632,552,689
Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases
$300,258
$185,279,425
All Other Programs
$20,313,371
Management and General
$1,597,763,736
Total Functional Expenses
Program Services
2021
$408,252,444
Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases
$47,701,151
Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program
$120,303,971
All Other Programs
$9,867,091
County of Santa Clara COVID-19 Response