UC Riverside Athletics and IEHP Align for Community Wellness

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. — Inland Empire Well being Plan (IEHP) and University of California Riverside (UCR) Athletics are signing up for forces this season to convey health and fitness and wellness assets, such as COVID-19 schooling and vaccine details, to the campus group and broader audiences.

Making use of a multi-channel strategy, the organizations will serve as an access stage to well timed and exact health data for learners, staff and the local community through the ongoing pandemic.

“We are enthusiastic to welcome IEHP as a partner to assistance us proceed our mission of making ready our college student-athletes for prospects in existence by means of activity,” said Wesley Mallette, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics. “In partnership with IEHP, we hope to educate and inform all Highlanders about the awesome sources IEHP delivers and their favourable effects on life.”

As a company sponsor, IEHP will be cheering for UCR’s basketball, baseball and softball household online games, and will be sponsoring a basketball sport on February 17, celebrating Black History Thirty day period. At this event, Michael Deering, IEHP’s Vice President of Innovation, Acceleration and Diversity, will be asserting the UCR Highlanders’ beginning lineup.

Also highlighted in the partnership is the well being plan’s collaborative work with UCR’s Centre for Balanced Communities and University of Medication and will be aired on videoboard screens before games—appearing on ESPN+ when Highlander online games are televised.

“UCR’s dedication to community wellbeing is incredibly obvious in all they do,” said Jarrod McNaughton, IEHP’s Chief Government Officer. “We’re grateful to husband or wife with them on many amounts and look ahead to sharing assets and exact COVID-19 details so we can set our ideal foot ahead in dwelling wholesome life and defeating this virus, alongside one another.”

The connection with IEHP is overseen on behalf of the college by Highlander Sporting activities Properties, UCR’s athletics multimedia rightsholder and Riverside-based LEARFIELD crew. LEARFIELD, a leading media and know-how solutions enterprise in intercollegiate athletics, unlocks the price of college or university sports activities for brands and followers by means of an omnichannel system with revolutionary content and commerce remedies.

For future UCR activity schedules and activities, visit gohighlanders.com.

About IEHP
With a mission to recover and encourage the human spirit, Inland Empire Health and fitness System (IEHP) is a single of the top rated 10 major Medicaid health plans and the major not-for-revenue Medicare-Medicaid program in the nation. In its 25^th year, IEHP is supporting additional than 1.4 million inhabitants in Riverside and San Bernardino counties who are enrolled in Medicaid or Cal MediConnect Plans and has a growing community of more than 7,300 companies and nearly 2,500 Staff Customers. Via dynamic partnerships with Vendors and Neighborhood Companies, paired with award-profitable provider and a tradition of quality treatment, IEHP is thoroughly dedicated to their vision: We will not rest right until our communities get pleasure from exceptional treatment and vivid overall health.  For much more details, visit iehp.org.