Company: ELV
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001156039-25-000046
Chunk: 23

Company: Elevance Health, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-28
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 23
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, including $14 million for expanding our partnership with Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, to enhance its "Food is Medicine" program. The program supports 20 Feeding America member food banks as they collaborate with healthcare partners, with the goal of reducing chronic disease for hundreds of thousands of neighbors. Complementing this national grant are local programs that range from innovating long-term solutions for food security, to providing nutrition and health education. So far, 59% of grant participants have improved chronic conditions through food interventions.

#### Reduce Substance Use Disorder
We are working to expand access to behavioral healthcare and connect people with the support they need throughout their health journey, including in times of crisis. Our subsidiary, Carelon Behavioral Health, is committed to serving as a leader in crisis services and maintaining a focus on members of all ages with complex needs such as substance use disorder or serious mental illness. In addition, our Foundation exceeded its commitment to invest $30 million over the three-year period ended in 2024 by awarding $33.7 million to support 77 programs that address mental health, with an emphasis on Substance Use Disorder. These programs are working to advance population health, with a primary goal of improving the percent of people receiving alcohol and/or substance dependence treatment among the most socially vulnerable communities. These grants address an array of care and service options, including prevention and early intervention, crisis response and intervention, long-term intervention and community resources and recovery supports.

#### Improve Population Health
Our proprietary dynamic modeling tool, the Whole Health Index (the “WHI”), measures member health holistically with a single score that takes community, social, behavioral and physical drivers into account. We have calculated WHI scores for more than 45 million members across all business lines. This data informs our efforts to improve the health of our communities, with an emphasis on improving health for all. The WHI is a powerful tool to track health systematically over time and compare statistics for population segments based on age, rural/urban status, sex, race/ethnicity and more. The WHI enables us to see where larger scale investments and solutions are most needed and to work with community-based partners to coordinate engagement, outreach and support.

#### Affordable Housing Investments
As part of our focus to address unmet social needs, in 2024 we committed approximately $46 million to affordable housing projects, which will lead to the construction of more than 150 affordable housing units. Since 2006, we have committed nearly $910 million to affordable housing