Community Assessment 2020-2025

Sacramento Employment and Training Agency 2020-2025
Both charts demonstrate that families in Sacramento County are getting needed insurance
coverage so that they are able to access health care when needed. The 2016 Sacramento
County Community Health Needs Assessment published by the Sierra Health Foundation found
that 81% of pregnant moms accessed prenatal care within their first trimester (sierrahealth.org,
2019). This same report found the life expectancy of a Sacramento County resident to be 78.7
years compared to 80.5 for California (sierrahealth.org, 2019).
Medi-cal / Covered California
The following chart shows the percentage of people in Sacramento County with public health
insurance coverage including Medi-Cal and Medicare coverage:
Covered California reports a 23.7% drop in the number of new consumers for 2019 and an increase
of 7.5% in renewals for the 2019 year.
Internal Data
Internal data shows that 99% of the children served in the Sacramento County Head Start/Early
Head Start program have insurance coverage.
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