S GRAMEEN Health Innovations Mission: To test and deliver innovative and comprehensive health care models that combine high-quality affordable primary care, health education, and wellness programs, to empower low-income women to build healthier lives and cultivate healthy communities. Goals: Increase awareness of personal health and how to prevent and manage disease. Improve health outcomes with greater utilization of preventative services and access to primary care. Enhance financial security by decreasing cost of care per member through reduced ER visits, hospitalization rates, and increased productivity. Create a transformative model that can foster a more efficient health care system, better able to meet the complex needs of vulnerable populations. Grameen America Since 2008, Grameen America (GA) has empowered low-income entrepreneurs living below the History: poverty line through affordable credit, savings, and other financial services. Founded by Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Professor Muhammad Yunus, GA has successfully reached 12,000 members in New York and other U.S. cities. GA has achieved a 99% repayment rate, because it utilizes the Grameen group model, which requires individuals to form groups of five and repay loans at weekly meetings. This has created a strong social network, offering a powerful platform to introduce health promotion. Problem: While the GA members' businesses are growing, this underserved community remains in need of a health care program to meet its specific needs. The majority of GA members are low-income immigrant women who are uninsured, lack access to preventive services, and high-quality affordable care. Faced with barriers to care and a high prevalence of chronic conditions, their income and resources are spent badly, impeding progress toward individual financial viability. What we do: To address the root causes of health disparities experienced by GA members, we are building a wellness center in Ja