Contra Costa Times
February 3, 2001

Healthy Kids sign-ups surpass expectations

San Jose - A Santa Clara County's program to provide health coverage to the county's uninsured children has exceeded its enrollment expectations in its first month.

The Healthy Kids program enrolled 660 children in January alone while county health officials expected 600 in the first six months of the program. Officials have not even begun publicizing the program yet.

"That was really without a lot of outreach into the community," Healthy Kids spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes said.

Healthy Kids is one of three parts of the county's ground-breaking Children's Health Initiative, which is committed to providing medical, dental and vision coverage to the county's 71,000 uninsured children using tobacco tax settlement money.