Desert Charities - Women in Philanthropy - Oct-Nov-Dec 2023

www.healthequitywalk.org www.healthequitywalk.org October 28, 2023 Ruth Hardy Park Register Today at Healt EquityWalk.org for LGBTQ+ health care • for women’s health care • for care for everyone Walk Out Loud to End Epidemics. This has forever been DAP Health’s superpower, with the organization swi ly and successfully addressing a number of community health crises. For instance, its on-campus COVID-19 clinic was the first to open in the Coachella Valley, and the agency successfully lobbied the powers that be for the community’s fair share of the much-needed mpox vaccine. Walk Out Loud For Mental Health. Thanks to the 2022 opening of the Marc Byrd Behavioral Health Clinic — which oŠers in-person and telehealth individual psychotherapy, as well as medication management — this long-held DAP Health dream is now a reality. Walk Out Loud to Care For Everyone. Health equity means all people have the same access to health care, no matter what social determinants of health negatively impact them. At DAP Health, everyone is welcome, with no one ever turned away due to their lack of health insurance. Of note, the Ryan White Western Regions Provider Meeting — which brings together nearly 50 peers who specialize in HIV care, and who receive Ryan White Part C and Part D funding — will take place October 26 and 27 in Palm Springs. At the event, these like- minded colleagues, from Denver to Hawaii, will share best practices to improve the quality of care and services they provide to their patients. HealthEquityWalk.org About DAP Health DAP Health is an internationally renowned humanitarian health care organization and federally qualified health center (FQHC) whose goal is to protect and expand health care access for all people — especially the disenfranchised — regardless of who or where they are, their health status, or whether they have health insurance. In 2023, the nonprofit made a successful bid to acquire the Borrego Health System, enabling it to serve a total of more than 100,000 patients of all populations, genders, and ages — from newborns to seniors — at a total of 25 Southern California clinics located within 240 rural and urban zip codes from the Salton Sea to San Diego. Founded as Desert AIDS Project in 1984 by a group of volunteers and thanks to nearly 40 years of experience caring for those aŠected not only by the HIV epidemic but by various other public health emergencies (COVID-19, mpox), DAP Health has the physical and intellectual resources, the drive, and — most importantly — the vision to eŠect even greater change by positively impacting its diverse patient populations’ social determinants of health (SDOH). According to the World Health Organization, SDOH are “the non- medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.” presented by