Erie's Community Health Net has received an award for expanding access to healthcare through the Highmark Bright Blue Futures Awards program.

The Highmark Health headquarters in downtown Pittsburgh will be illuminated in blue to celebrate. 

"The Highmark Bright Blue Futures Awards program recognizes organizations that don't just promise change, they deliver it by expanding access to vital care,” Kenya T. Boswell, senior vice president of Community Affairs for Highmark Health and president of the Highmark Foundation, said. “By investing in their outcome-driven initiatives, we're fostering sustainable solutions that will translate into tangible improvements in community health.”

The Community Health Net is one of several organizations to get the award. Collectively, the recipients got grant funding of more than half a million dollars.