Pear Suite, a digital well being firm for neighborhood well being staff, is partnering with OutCare Well being, a nonprofit group targeted on LGBTQ+ well being fairness, to offer Pear’s social navigation platform to employers, healthcare organizations, and well being plans to deal with the care wants of the LBGTQ+ neighborhood.
Hawaii-based Pear Suite is a care navigation platform that gathers social determinants of well being information to garner insights for healthcare suppliers to enhance healthcare outcomes.
OutCare Well being offers LGBTQ+ healthcare-focused sources to sufferers and suppliers, together with a listing of suppliers aware about the wants of the LGBTQ+ inhabitants.
The Indiana-based firm will make the most of Pear’s navigation platform with SDOH information to broaden its attain in connecting LGBTQ+ sufferers with affirming healthcare suppliers, help teams, mentors and neighborhood well being sources.
“Along with collaborating to bolster OutCare Well being’s care navigation providers, we’re including the corporate’s complete and invaluable coaching, LGBTQ+ affirming supplier community, and sources for Pear Suite prospects to make the most of, additional increasing LGBTQ+ care throughout the nation,” Colby Takeda, cofounder and CEO of Pear Suite, mentioned in a press release.
THE LARGER TREND
Final month, Pear Suite closed a $2.5 million seed funding round to assist broaden its SDOH-driven care navigation platform.
In accordance with a report printed by the Kaiser Family Foundation in 2021, LGBT+ sufferers face better well being disparities than the overall inhabitants and usually tend to say their well being is honest or poor in comparison with non-LGBT+ individuals.
One other firm targeted on bettering LGBTQ+ care is Folx Health, which affords digital care providers to the LGBTQ+ neighborhood. Folx garnered $30 million in Series B funding in October.
