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'''Peter Beilenson''' is a [[physician]] and [[public health]] visionary who has transformed Maryland’s health care system over the past 25 years in his role as a public health leader and an advocate for health care for all. He is currently the president and CEO of [[Evergreen Health]], Maryland’s new health insurance company.<ref name="Evergreen Health">{{cite web|title=Evergreen Health|url=http://evergreenmd.org/|accessdate=7 (contracted; show full)lenson served as [[Howard County]] Health Officer from 2007 to 2012. He launched the Healthy Howard Access Plan, the first-of-its-kind program in the country that provides comprehensive affordable health and wellness services to the county’s uninsured population. He significantly increased access to insurance by launching One Door to Health, a one-stop-shop for all uninsured residents to enroll in all publicly funded health insurance programs. He also launched a proactive health and wellness effort, Health
y Howard Initiative, which incorporates healthy activities and programs into institutions such as schools, restaurants, and workplaces.

Inspired by [[Healthy Howard]], Dr. Beilenson designed, founded, and now serves as the CEO of [[Evergreen Health]], the first new commercial health insurance company in Maryland in over twenty years. 
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== Select Awards ==
Named one of The Utne Reader’s Twenty-five World Visionaries for his work implementing Evergreen Health <ref name="Twenty-five World Visionaries">{{cite web|title=Twenty-five world visionaries|url=http://www.utne.com/mind-and-body/utne-reader-visionaries-peter-beilenson-evergreen-project.aspx=10 March 2014}}</ref>

Received the American Public Health Association’s inaugural Milton & Ruth Roemer Prize for Creativity by a Local Health Official <ref name="Milton & Ruth Roemer Prize">{{cite web|title=Milton & Ruth Roemer Prize|url=http://www.jhu.edu/gazette/octdec96/dec1696/cheers.html=10 March 2014}}</ref>⏎
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==See also==
*[[Healthy Howard]]
*[[Maryland Congressional election, 2006]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/magazine/archive/Mag_Fall03/beilenson/ Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine, Fall 2003: Think Big... Move Fast]

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| PLACE OF BIRTH    = Los Angeles, California
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