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AltaMed

Serving Our Communities Through the Coronavirus

On screen:

Zoila D. Escobar

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Zoila D. Escobar

President AltaMed Foundation & CAO, AltaMed Health Services

AltaMed Health Services Corporation is a not for profit community health center.

B Roll: archival images of AltaMed’s beginnings, people holding signs; store front

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Nurse prepping a young man’s arm under AltaMed tent; woman holding paperwork out to two men; people at a table handing over paperwork; nurse wearing shield touching a baby;

nurse looking at a computer screen

On screen:

Zoila D. Escobar

It was started by a group of community activists out of the East LA riots that were part of the civil rights movement back in 1969.

We serve around 350,000 patients on an annual basis, We provide primary health care for people who are uninsured or underinsured both Latino and other ethnic minorities, multicultural communities in the southern California area.

When the coronavirus hit us, we went from about

3,600 visits a day to zero. People just stopped coming.

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Bank of America provided AltaMed with a $500,000 grant to support outfitting and operating eight evaluation and testing sites in LA and Orange County.

BRoll: Nurses standing outside at a drive through clinic; cars lined up to get to the clinic; nurse in PPE leaning to speak to someone in a car;

On screen:

Zoila D. Escobar

We needed to learn how to provide care in an environment where people will feel safe.

We started by creating drive through clinics. About 10% of all tests in the county of LA are being done through AltaMed Health Services Corporation.

We see everyday lines and lines of cars that wrap around the block.

We are California, what can I say? We do everything in our cars.

B Roll: Two nurses standing beside a car; a group of nurses with swabs and paper work by cars; group of health care workers under a tent working;

We also now have the ability to give them their results via phone.

On screen:

Zoila D. Escobar

B roll: wide shot of LA; testing site with tents set up; nurses interacting with someone in car; nurses looking at laptops;

We are just humbled by what we have seen, not just our employees stand up and do but our patients themselves.

Being able to get themselves to these testing sites, being able to use technology that they have never used before we are able to move a lot more information faster – than we knew that we could do.

On screen:

Zoila D. Escobar

BRoll: Car with thank you signs and balloons pulling in; birds-eye-view of the testing site

Once you have better outcomes, once you have people healthy, you then can do anything, because we can re-open our economy and we are just thrilled to be able to respond this way to our community.

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The grant to AltaMed is part of Bank of America’s additional $100 million commitment to help local communities impacted by the coronavirus.

Learn more at bankofamerica.com/community

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