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San Jose
Mercury The Valley The David and Lucile Packard Foundation will give nearly $2 million to Santa Clara County's Healthy Kids program, providing welcome cash to the low-cost insurance plan for children. Since January, the program has offered health insurance to uninsured children whose families earn up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level -- too much to qualify for government help, but too little to afford private insurance. The program has enrolled 7,500 children, more than expected, and takes in 500 new applications monthly. "We're just extremely thankful and gratified,'' said Craig Walsh, executive director of Santa Clara Family Health Foundation, which administers Healthy Kids. "This grant will allow us to enroll a lot more kids and continue other fundraising activities.''
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