Mario Molina
LONG
BEACH (By Jeffrey Ressner, Time) August 18, 2005 - Decent health care for poor
Latinos often gets lost in translation. ERs can be unfriendly, confusing places,
and medical needs are often misunderstood. That's why Dr. J. Mario Molina, CEO
of Molina Healthcare, offers a new model: employ bilingual physicians, provide
simple brochures in several languages (including Chinese and Cambodian to serve
California's Asian population), and run 24-hr. nurse-operated advice lines in
Spanish. Launched in 1980 as a small group of Southern California clinics, today
the company is a $700 million publicly traded hmo with headquarters in Long
Beach, 800,000 customers in six states, and branches in Texas and Ohio expected
later this year.
Molina, 47, recalls how his late father, an
emergency-room physician, began the clinics to help immigrants on Medicaid who
couldn't find doctors willing to treat them for the government program's limited
fees. "While most other health-care plans focused on large employer groups, we
[focused] on low-income immigrants with language issues," says Molina, an
endocrinologist who took over the firm after his father died in 1996. "I grew up
with this experience and just built on it." Recently Molina Healthcare began
reaching out to other customers with special needs, including people eligible
for both Medicaid and Medicare. "These are the most difficult patientsnot only
do they have all the social problems that come with a low income but they're
also elderly or disabled," Molina says.
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