Buckeye in the News
Buckeye’s Operation Feed the Hungry began on a small scale in 2010, with several members of the Buckeye team delivering hams to 5 community agencies in the city of Akron the week before Christmas. Since then (over the past five years including this year’s donation), Buckeye has given 14,653 hams (or 131,877 pounds of ham) and 8,034 turkeys (or 104,440 pounds of turkey) to 22,687 Ohio families through 367 statewide, community-based organizations.
Operation Feed the Hungry in Dayton
Operation Feed the Hungry in Columbus
Operation Feed the Hungry in Toledo
Operation Feed the Hungry in Warren-Youngstown
Lori Mulichak, a Registered Nurse and Senior Vice President of Medical Management from Buckeye Health Plan visited Stewart Elementary School in Columbus to work with students and teachers on healthy eating ideas as part of their Adopt-A-School program. Buckeye’s Adopt-a-School program promotes healthy lifestyles and nurtures good decision making about personal health. Buckeye developed the Adopt-a-School program in Ohio in 2009.
Buckeye Health Plan hosts assemblies in honor of No One Eats Alone Day, created by the non-profit Beyond Differences. Students participated in activites designed to teach about social isolation and the negative impact it can have on a student’s health and academic performance. The put those lessons into action by sitting with their peers at lunch who they don’t know, or who may feel left out.