Thanks to the generosity of UnitedHealthcare Community & State, the Oklahoma City Housing Authority received a total of 1,500 non-surgical, washable cloth masks, manufactured by clothing company Hanes, to share with residents of 10 senior public housing communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Public Housing Authorities from around the United States requested these masks to provide to residents in order to help keep them safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. OCHA will take immediate action to distribute them quickly as part of their broader COVID-19 response efforts. UnitedHealthcare has sent out 176,000 masks.

The Council of Large Public Housing Authorities (CLPHA) and UnitedHealthcare Community & State are strong partners in the effort to improve health outcomes for low-income individuals served by public housing authorities. In 2018, CLPHA and UnitedHealthcare Community & State, along with the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), created the Aligning Health & Housing Systems (AHHS) Project, a multi-sector collaboration to better the health outcomes of Medicaid beneficiaries served through managed health care and living in publicly assisted housing. The AHHS Project, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, designs and implements systems of care and interventions that align health and housing resources at the person, program, and population level.

OCHA extends our deepest thanks to UnitedHealthcare for its generosity during these difficult times, and we look forward to strengthening our continued partnership that connects health and housing systems in order to better serve the nation’s most vulnerable populations.

For more information contact the Executive Office at OCHA 405.605.3219.

OCHA extends our deepest thanks to UnitedHealthcare for its generosity during these difficult times, and we look forward to strengthening our continued partnership that connects health and housing systems in order to better serve the nation’s most vulnerable populations.