UnitedHealthcare Delivers Replacement Bikes Stolen from Local Veterans Organization
April 28 2015 - 3:03PM
Business Wire
- Veterans with Ride 2 Recovery’s Project
HERO at Balboa Naval Medical Center embark on inaugural ride with
new bikes
UnitedHealthcare presented Ride 2 Recovery with a new fleet of
bikes at a ceremony this morning on the U.S.S. Midway Flight Deck.
Earlier this month, UnitedHealthcare donated $50,000 to the
nonprofit veterans organization after learning 16 bikes were stolen
from a storage unit in San Diego.
Dr. John Mateczun, president,
UnitedHealthcare Military & Veterans, presents a bike to
Retired Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Alex Victorino at a ceremony
this morning on the U.S.S. Midway Flight Deck. UnitedHealthcare
presented 16 replacement bikes to Ride 2 Recovery's Project HERO
Balboa group, of which Victorino has been a participant since 2013.
To his left is Jamie Rihn, Ride 2 Recovery's Project HERO Balboa
coordinator (Photo: Wally Nell).
The replacement adaptive bikes will be used by Ride 2 Recovery’s
Project HERO program at Balboa. Ride 2 Recovery is a groundbreaking
veterans program that restores hope and purpose providing a way FOR
life with Vets helping Vets. Its participation provides hope,
renewed life and a sense of camaraderie. The organization provides
impactful and life-changing experiences through cycling that have
proved to enhance veterans’ wellness and mental and physical
health. Project HERO (Health Exercise Rehabilitation Opportunity)
programs are community-based at local VAs or military
installations, and provide injured veterans with cycling training
year-round with other veterans. There are 70 Project HERO programs
across the country.
Attending today’s ceremony were leadership from Ride 2 Recovery
and UnitedHealthcare, along with participants of the Ride 2
Recovery Project HERO program, including retired Marine Corps Staff
Sergeant Alex Victorino. Victorino served 16 years in the Marine
Corps and was injured in Afghanistan. He lives with combat PTSD and
has been a member of Project HERO Balboa since 2013.
This is the sixth year UnitedHealthcare is serving as Ride 2
Recovery's title sponsor, providing financial, in-kind and
volunteer support to help America's injured veterans.
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UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health
care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and
sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company
offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and
their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with more than 850,000 physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities
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UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
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UnitedHealthcare Military & Veterans is the managed care
support contractor for the West Region of the U.S. Defense
Department's TRICARE program, serving nearly 2.9 million military
service members, retirees and their families in 21 states,
including more than 796,000 in California.
About Ride 2 RecoveryRide 2
Recovery is a unique mental and physical rehabilitation and
recovery program for veterans. The veterans are able to adapt,
improvise and overcome the issues they face. From outdoor training
at military installations to multi-day, long distance rides, Ride 2
Recovery helps injured veterans heal through the challenge of
cycling using custom adapted bicycles, hand cycles, recumbents,
tandems and traditional road bikes.
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UnitedHealthcareHeather Soule, 310-993-3762orRide 2
RecoverySheri Goldberg, 818-888-7091
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