Medical health insurance brokerage and care navigation platform Improve Well being introduced that it is partnering with boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. to develop entry to well being care in low-income communities.  

Via the unique partnership, Improve and Mayweather plan to advocate for wellbeing, equality, and accessible and complete healthcare, whereas leveraging Improve’s sources and Mayweather’s model.

“Everybody deserves the chance to dwell a wholesome and fulfilling life. I’m proud to accomplice with Improve Well being to make sure that households from all walks of life can entry the healthcare they should thrive. Collectively, we will make a distinction and convey optimistic change to communities throughout the nation,” Mayweather stated in an announcement.

THE LARGER TREND

In 2019, Mayweather based the Floyd Mayweather Jr. Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) group centered on financial progress and growth, group well being and wellness, and youth schooling.

A number of celebrities have made their manner into the healthcare area, together with U.S. tennis champion Andy Roddick, who introduced a partnership in June with Glen Tullman’s Transcarent, a digital platform centered on the self-insured employer market.

Roddick’s ViewFi, a tech-enabled digital orthopedic and rehabilitation platform, partnered with Transcarent to ship sufferers digital orthopedic and musculoskeletal care by way of Transcarent’s Seek the advice of Resolution.

Fellow tennis champion Serena Williams began her enterprise fund in 2014, dubbed Serena Ventures, which has invested in related health firm Tonal, digital and in-office healthcare supplier Juno Medical, and at-home cervical most cancers screening firm Teal Health. 

Williams additionally backed Lifeforce, a personalised healthcare platform primarily based on a telehealth mannequin that was cofounded by motivational speaker Tony Robbins.