Program Criteria

John Muir Health focuses its efforts on programs that address vulnerable populations characterized as having one or more of the following:

• Evidenced-based disparities in health outcomes (e.g., African Americans with heart disease, African American women with breast cancer and African Americans and Latinos with diabetes)
• Significant barriers to care (e.g., the isolated or frail elderly, those with language or cultural barriers to effective care, those with barriers to appropriate and timely health care due to lack of health insurance, those with transportation or mobility barriers, those with limitations on their capacity to voice their needs in the health care system such as children)
• Economically disadvantaged (e.g., uninsured, underinsured and/or working poor residents)