Miami, FL – July 13, 2021 – (LATINX NEWSWIRE) – Hispanic Star, a national collective effort to unify and advance the Hispanic community, through their Miami Hub, partnered with Sodexo, a leader in food service and facilities management, and with CareMax, a technology-enabled care platform providing value-based care and chronic disease management to seniors, to deliver much needed protective facemasks to organizations in South Florida caring for populations who are most vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus.
Sodexo has made it a priority to reach out to community organizations across the country that are confronted with caring for people who may not always have access to quality personal protective equipment. In South Florida, with the help of the Hispanic Star Miami Hub and the CareMax Mobile Clinic the following organizations received facemasks:
– Deliver the Dream, benefitting 500 families.
– Showering Love, benefitting 1,000 guests, and the CareMax Mobile Clinic offered wellness checks.
– Palmetto Hospital, benefiting 800 patients
– Cala Foundation, benefiting over 20 families
To join ongoing community outreach initiatives in South Florida with the Hispanic Star Miami Hub, CareMax, and Sodexo, please contact Carolina Veira, Hispanic Star Miami Hub Leader and Director, Community and Corporate Partnerships for CareMax at cveira@imchealth.com.
About Hispanic Star
The Hispanic Star is a national collective effort to unify and advance the Hispanic community. It is the largest network of its kind, combining corporate leadership and community organizations at the national and local level to accelerate the upward mobility of Hispanics. At its core, the Hispanic Star is founded on the simple premise that what is good is for Hispanics is good for America. For more information, visit www.hispanicstar.org and We Are All Human.
The Hispanic Star Miami Hub represents Miami-based leaders who lead these efforts in the Miami area in cross-sector collaboration to support the upward mobility of the local Hispanic community. Learn more at www.hispanicstar.org
About Sodexo North America
Sodexo North America is part of a global, Fortune 500 company with a presence in 64 countries. Sodexo is a leading provider of integrated food, facilities management, and other services that enhance organizational performance, contribute to local communities and improve quality of life for millions of customers in corporate, education, healthcare, senior living, sports and leisure, government, and other environments daily. Sodexo is committed to supporting diversity and inclusion and safety, while upholding the highest standards of corporate responsibility and ethical business conduct. In support of local communities across the U.S., in 2020, the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation, mobilized 10,000 Sodexo volunteers to distribute 4.1 million meals to help 5.9 million children and adults meet their immediate food needs. Since 1996, the Stop Hunger Foundation has contributed $36.7 million to help feed children in America impacted by hunger. To learn more about Sodexo, visit us.sodexo.com, and connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.
About CareMax
CareMax is a technology-enabled care platform providing value-based care and chronic disease management to seniors. CareMax operates medical centers that offer a comprehensive suite of healthcare and social services, and a proprietary software and services platform that provides data, analytics, and rules-based decision tools/workflows for physicians across the United States. Learn more at www.caremax.com.