Typically a family of four earning less than about $60,000 per year would be eligible for one of these programs.  For some of the programs immigration status doesn't matter.

Coverage typically includes:

• Doctor Check-ups
• Specialist Care
• Prescription Coverage
• Vision
• Dental Care
• Hospital Visits
• Emergency Care
• Mental Health Care
• Alcohol and Drug Treatment
• A 24-hour nurse help line

Cost

Children enrolled in MediCal pay no costs for premiums or co-payments.

Children enrolled in Healthy Families or Kaiser Child Health Plan pay premiums ranging from $5-$15 per child and co-payments at $5 per service.  Co-payments are payments for visits to the doctor, for prescription drugs, for emergency services or other services. Some services are free. Free services include immunizations and other preventive care.

How to Enroll

Throughout Yolo County there are 26 Certified Application Assistants (CAAs) available to help families through the process of applying or re-applying for health insurance for their children.

You will need to bring the following documentation:

• Proof of income
• Proof of age of child
• Proof that you live in Yolo County.

A Certified Application Assistant will answer your questions and help you make the right choice for insuring your child. Every call, every conversation is kept confidential, so your privacy is protected. Our goal is to build trust with you and your family and to be there to help you every step of the way. Call the number below in your community to make an appointment.

Yolo County Children's Alliance: 866-607-4030 or 530-757-5558, West Sacramento 916-572-0560

serving all Yolo including Davis, Woodland and West Sacramento

In addition to the Yolo County Children’s Alliance, Certified Application Assistants can be found at:

CommuniCare Health Clinics:

Peterson Clinic (Woodland)

8 North Cottonwood Street
Woodland, CA 95695

530-666-8960

Salud Clinic (West Sacramento)

500B Jefferson Boulevard
Suites #180
West Sacramento, CA 95605

(916) 375-6400

Davis Community Clinic

2051 John Jones Road
Davis, CA 95616

530-758-2060

Yolo Family Resource Center:

Woodland

828 Court Street
Woodland, CA 95695

(530) 406-7221

Knights Landing

RISE, Inc.:

Esparto & Capay Valley

17317 Fremont Street

 Esparto, CA 95627

530-787-4110

Winters

312 A Railroad Avenue

Winters, CA 95964

(next to the Winters Express and Cody's Restaurant)

530-794-6000 or 794-6001

Winters Healthcare Foundation & Promotoras:

23 Main Street
Winters, CA

530-795-4377

Facts and Figures

Children with health insurance are healthier that those without health insurance.

• Uninsured children are 70 percent less likely to receive medical care for common conditions such as ear infections and are more likely to rely on expensive emergency rooms for routine care.
• Thirty percent of uninsured children are less likely to receive medical care when they are injured.
• Twenty percent of uninsured children have untreated vision problems.
• Twenty-five years of health care research shows a reduction of the incidence of death by 10 to 15 percent for children with insurance.
• Children with health insurance experience better health than those without it by 25 percent.

The cost of insuring our uninsured children makes good fiscal sense.

• Federal matching funds will pay for approximately 62 percent of California’s uninsured children.
• Every dollar invested in children’s health insurance in Yolo County can be matched by from $1 to $2 from the federal government.
• Each dollar spent on childhood immunizations saves $13 down the road.
• The Urban Institute estimates that as much as 50 percent of the cost of covering uninsured children is already available “in the system.”
• Of the nearly eight percent of California children who lack health insurance, more than half qualify for Healthy Families and Medi-Cal insurance.

Just as all children are guaranteed access to education, it is essential to provide every child with comprehensive health insurance.

• Uninsured children are likely to go without needed care, and as a result, also are likely to pass on communicable diseases to insured children in school and in the community.
• Uninsured children also most often end up in emergency rooms where care is more expensive to provide and typically not reimbursed. Consequently, the community, as a whole, is burdened with increasing levels of communicable diseases, and emergency care becomes more expensive with longer wait times for all.
• According to the Institute for Health Policy Solutions, “Children’s access to health insurance and health care are important determinants of better health outcomes and readiness to learn."
• "A regular source of care is particularly important in assuring that appropriate preventive services are provided, acute and chronic conditions are diagnosed and treated in a timely manner, and that children’s development is adequately monitored."
• "Regular access to preventive services can decrease need for emergency and specialized services.”

Why is outreach important?

Health care plans and benefits and the health care delivery system are complicated, intimidating to many and often create barriers to parents concerned about obtaining health insurance for their children.

The Community Health Initiative’s goal is to reduce parents’ fears and confusion by offering family-friendly locations where families can meet with application assistants who are trained to help them enroll their children in a health insurance program and other family support programs, if desired.

Why is retention important?

The success of the Yolo Community Healthy Initiative ultimately will be measured by the level of enrollee retention and the increased utilization of care by formerly uninsured children. To achieve healthy communities, we must reach out to all residents and make it a priority for every child to have the health care they need to succeed in school and in life.

The uniqueness of Yolo Community Health Initiative is we are: 1) addressing the specific needs of uninsured children and families in Yolo County; 2) providing the administrative continuity necessary to eliminate barriers to continuous care for children and families; 3) educating enrollees on how to proactively use the local care delivery system; and 4) providing the resources necessary to make available trained and effective application assistants to help families enroll their children in health insurance coverage programs.

Funding

The Community Health Initiative has been funded by:

The Blue Sheild of California Foundation

The California Endowment

The City of West Sacramento

Kaiser Permanent Foundation

The Sierra Health Foundation

The United Way California Capitol Region

U.S. Department of Health &  Human Services, CHIPRA

The Woodland United Way

Yolo  Department of Employment & Social Services

Yolo First Five

Yolo County Children’s Alliance is a member of the California Children’s Health Initiative and also participates with the Sacramento Regional Children’s Health Initiative and with the Napa, Sonoma and Solano Children’s Health Initiatives.

The Yolo Children’s Health Initiative Coalition Includes:
Yolo County Children’s Alliance
First 5 Yolo
Yolo County Department of Public Health
Yolo County Department of Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health
Yolo County Department of Employment and Social Services
Partnership HealthPlan of California
Yolo Family Resource Center
RISE, Inc.
Kaiser Permanente
CommuniCare Health Centers
Winters Healthcare Foundation
Sutter Davis Hospital
Woodland Healthcare
Esparto Medical Center
Yolo Family Services Agency
Davis Joint Unified School District
Esparto Unified School District
Woodland Joint Unified School District
Washington Unified School District
Winters Joint Unified School District
Yolo County Office of Education
Migrant Education
Head Start
Child Care Planning Council
Yolo County Health Council
Salud Clinic Advisory Board