The Health Care Foundation’s mission is to promote the physical and mental health of the people living within our community. Every year the board of director’s awards grants to local non-profit agencies who provide needed services. The Health Care Foundation is proud to announce our 2018 grant awards totaling $367,513.00 to the following recipients and programs.
Cowlitz Free Clinic: $60,000.00 to support operations of the Cowlitz Free Medical Clinic providing urgent medical care and short-term management of chronic care to uninsured adults in the Cowlitz County area.
Community Home Health and Hospice: $50,000 to provide charity care for hospice patients from our community who are in difficult financial circumstances.
Community House on Broadway: $14,000 for the purchase of washing machines and dryers for the proposed Community House Offsite Laundry Facility.
FISH of Cowlitz County: $55,000.00 to assist needy community members to pay for emergency prescriptions, dental care and some medical services.
Hello Life Eating Disorder Recovery Services: $5,000 to fund supplies and treatment for residents in our community who are struggling with eating disorders.
Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation of Cowlitz County: $10,000. to provide vision and hearing care for low-income and homeless people in our community.
Lower Columbia School Gardens: $18,000 to purchase equipment to support the school gardens and cooking programs.
Lower Columbia Action Program: $22,700 to provide support during the HELP Warehouse freight elevator renovation and to help fund a pre-owned forklift to move food into and out of the HELP Warehouse.
PeaceHealth, St John Medical Center: $121,000 to fund the second year of the “Child Community Health Care Worker Project”.
Radical Love/St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church: $11,813 to purchase equipment including freezers and kitchen supplies to provide meals for homeless in our community.
For more information, please contact Mary Jane Melink, Executive Director, The Health Care Foundation at (360) 423-3591
The Health Care Foundation is a local organization, founded to perpetuate the community’s investment in the Monticello Medical Center. From its inception in 1984 over $13 million have been distributed to local health care organizations
