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Following the latest news from the United Health Foundation showing Tennessee at 47^th in the nation in overall health (see America’s Health Rankings™ ), experts from UnitedHealthcare of Tennessee and AmeriChoice, United’s Medicaid managed care organization, spoke up about how to change Tennessee’s trajectory and rolled out more preventive services to Tennesseans in need.

On January 1, more than 65,000 TennCare members in East Tennessee gained access to AmeriChoice services, completing a statewide expansion of access to nearly 500,000 TennCare members. Services include medical and behavioral health services, non-emergency transportation, smoking cessation programs, access to the family assistance service center, free translation services, and Disease Management programs focused on prenatal health, childhood obesity, depression, diabetes and asthma.

AmeriChoice’s new East Tennessee Medical Director, Paul D. Banick, MD, recently wrote about reducing tobacco-related illness in the state and about his decision to join AmeriChoice in the Knoxville News Sentinel.

Garland Scott, president of UnitedHealthcare of Tennessee, discussed the role health plans play in improving health by making important connections between a sick patient and the right doctor; between physicians and the correct patient data; between consumers and the right health information; and between patients and the medicines they need. Read the column in the Tennessean.

Thanks to a generous $25,000 grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Nashville-based Affordable Housing Resources (AHR) is expanding its financial literacy education program, which gives adults the knowledge and skills needed to make sound money management choices.

“Given the widespread economic instability and turbulent housing market, the phrase ‘knowledge is power’ has never been more true,” said AHR CEO and Tennessee Housing Development Agency board chairman Eddie Latimer.  “We often just assume that people have the skills to make good decisions about using and managing money when, in fact, all of us need to be taught those skills by someone.”

AHR’s ten-hour financial literacy class covers the basics of managing personal finances such as budgeting, banking, balancing a checkbook, lending, and understanding and using credit. The class is offered to the general public for a nominal fee.

Call 615-251-0025 x 0 for more information.