Operation USA Is Honored For Its
Support Of California Community Clinics

Operation USA received the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County’s annual “Friend of Community Clinics Star Award” for outstanding service to nonprofit clinics in the community. Carl Coan, Board Vice President, made the presentation to Neil Frame, Operation USA’s Vice President of Procurement & Logistics, in a November 30th ceremony honoring the contributions of organizations and individuals for significantly improving healthcare services to the medically underserved in the county.

Operation USA began its support of nonprofit clinics as an evolution of our programs in Central America during the region’s civil wars, where in we sought to improve the health status of refugees in the Los Angeles area. Twenty-two years later, Operation USA has taken the program Statewide, providing millions of dollars of medical supplies, equipment and pharmaceuticals to up to two hundred clinics.

City of Los Angeles and foundation grants have supported clinic disaster plan development, nonstructural hazard mitigation, disaster supply storage units and peer health training programs for high school students.