UnitedHealthcare Provides $250,000 Grant to Help Fund Downtown Winter Housing Shelter for San Diego Homeless

  UnitedHealthcare Provides $250,000 Grant to Help Fund Downtown Winter
  Housing Shelter for San Diego Homeless

  * The City of San Diego Downtown Emergency Winter Shelter is expected to
    serve nearly 800 homeless men and women with housing, food and other
    services over a four-month period
  * Grant is in addition to UnitedHealthcare’s $15.1 million investment in
    Connections Housing Downtown, a permanent-housing facility for San Diego’s
    homeless adults

Business Wire

SAN DIEGO -- November 19, 2012

UnitedHealthcare announced it is giving a $250,000 grant to the San Diego
Housing Commission to help operate The City of San Diego Downtown Emergency
Winter Shelter, one of two temporary shelters for the area’s homeless.

UnitedHealthcare representatives met with community leaders at the downtown
winter shelter today and presented a $250,000 check to City of San Diego and
the San Diego Housing Commission. The grant is expected to provide more than
half of the total funding for the downtown shelter this winter, covering
operating expenses, meals, leased shower facilities, and utilities.

The announcement coincided with final preparations for the official opening of
the downtown facility in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Located in
Barrio Logan, south of downtown San Diego, the shelter will provide 220 beds
and shelter during the coldest and wettest months of the year; it is expected
to help about 800 homeless people during the four-month period. The San Diego
Housing Commission is the administrator of the Emergency Winter Shelter
Program for the city. The program also includes a second shelter away from the
downtown area that exclusively serves about 300 homeless military veterans,
and that shelter is expected to open in early December.

The $250,000 grant is part of UnitedHealthcare’s Affordable Housing Investment
Program, which helps provide critical financing for affordable-housing
projects in targeted communities throughout the United States. The funding was
secured through the work of the Affirmed Housing Group and Enterprise
Community Investment, Inc., two organizations that advocate and help support
affordable-housing projects in California and nationwide.

“We are grateful to UnitedHealthcare for this grant and its efforts to provide
a warm and safe shelter for the men and women who are homeless this winter
season,” said Richard C. Gentry, president and CEO, San Diego Housing
Commission. “We also appreciate the outreach to UnitedHealthcare by Affirmed
Housing Group, the co-developer of Connections Housing Downtown,
the city-sponsored one-stop homeless service center that is set to open early
next year.”

UnitedHealthcare worked with Enterprise Community Investment, Inc., a national
leader in the affordable-housing and community-development industry, to
provide $15.1 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) equity to help
finance and build Connections Housing Downtown, an integrated service and
residential community project in San Diego. When completed early next year,
Connections Housing will provide permanent year-round shelter, housing and an
array of services for the region’s homeless.

The multi-use project will serve as a one-stop service center and housing for
homeless people. The residential portion will consist of 73 studio units of
permanent supportive housing, 16 special-needs single-occupancy units and 134
interim-housing beds. The project will also provide resources a person needs
to break the cycle of homelessness. This includes a primary health care
clinic, multiservice homeless center, large commercial kitchen, related dining
facilities and administrative offices, among other amenities. Connections
Housing Downtown is expected to replace the need for the downtown winter
shelter in future years.

“The downtown winter shelter and Connections Housing will provide valuable
temporary and permanent resources that will help San Diego-area homeless –
about 1,600 of whom are military veterans – live healthier and more secure
lives,” said Tony Lonigro, Southwest Region CEO, UnitedHealthcare Military &
Veterans. “UnitedHealthcare is grateful for the opportunity to work with the
City of San Diego, Affirmed Housing Group and Enterprise Community Investment
in making a difference in the community.”

UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, serves more than
2.3 million Californians with a care provider network of 323 hospitals and
more than 47,400 physicians statewide.

The company also has been actively engaged in helping improve Californians’
access to quality health care. In addition to the investments in San Diego,
the California Health Care Investment Program has provided $266 million in
total investments to 45 health care organizations throughout the state that
provide services to underserved, low-income and underinsured communities and
populations. UnitedHealthcare has also provided an additional $22.3 million to
help expand telemedicine in rural and medically underserved clinics and
hospitals throughout the state.

About UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare 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 and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with
more than 650,000 physicians and care professionals and 5,000 hospitals
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare serves more than 38 million people and is one of
the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50
health and well-being company.

Contact:

UnitedHealthcare
Matthew Yi, 714-226-3842
matthew.yi@uhc.com