UnitedHealthcare Donates More Than 1,000 Solar Eclipse Glasses to 14 Boys & Girls Clubs in King County

Boys & Girls Clubs in King County received 1,020 solar-eclipse glasses from UnitedHealthcare in time to view the eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21. At one of several distribution events, company representatives distributed the glasses and provided materials with tips to safely view the eclipse to the members of the Burke 45th Street Club in Wallingford. The glasses have been certified for safe viewing during the eclipse.

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Boys & Girls Clubs in King County received more than 1,000 solar-eclipse glasses from UnitedHealthcare in time to view the eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21. At today’s gathering, Doug Bowes, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Washington and Cindy Spain, RN, Director, Medical and Clinical Operations, United Healthcare of Washington, and mascot, Dr. Health E. Hound, distributed the glasses and provided materials with tips to safely view the eclipse to the members of the Burke 45th Street Club in Wallingford (Photo: Suzi Pratt).

The solar eclipse on Aug. 21 will be visible across North America, with anyone within a roughly 70-mile-wide path from Oregon to South Carolina experiencing a brief total eclipse. People will be able to witness a near total eclipse in the Seattle area, where eclipse coverage will be 91.84 percent. UnitedHealthcare is donating 10,000 eclipse glasses to elementary schools and Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide.

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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, military service members, retirees and their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with 1 million physicians and care professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.

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