Hurdle Health Partners With Blue Cross & Blue Shield Of Minnesota To Provide Culturally Responsive Mental Health Care

Hurdle Health partnered with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) to provide free culturally responsive and trauma-informed virtual mental health care teletherapy services to residents of Brooklyn Center. The services are slated to go live later in 2022. This effort is part of Blue Cross’s five-year place-based partnership with the city of Brooklyn Center.

Brooklyn Center is the second most racially diverse city in Minnesota and the only city led by a Black mayor and city manager. Additionally, Brooklyn Center has been disproportionally impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and . . .