For Immediate Release

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 directors awards grants to local non-profit agencies who provide needed services. We are proud to announce our 2016 grant awards totaling $276.745.00 to the following recipients and programs.

  • Castle Rock United Methodist Church:  $6,100.00 to team up with community partners to replace equipment in the downtown Castle Rock playground.

  • Children’s Justice & Advocacy Center:   $20,000.00 to provide support groups for non-offending caregivers of children who have experienced trauma related to aa crime.

  • Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue:  $19,845.00 to provide low cost First Aid and CPR classes.

  • Cowlitz Free Clinic:   $50,000.00 to support operations of the Cowlitz Free Medical Clinic, which provides urgent medical care and short term management of chronic care to uninsured adults in the Cowlitz County area.

  • FISH of Cowlitz County:   $40,000.00 to assist needy community members to pay for emergency prescriptions, dental care and some medical services.

  • Life Works:   $30,000.00 to help purchase a wheelchair-accessible van to ensure the health, well-being and safety of clients and staff.

  • Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation of Cowlitz County:  $10,000.00 to provide vision and hearing care for low-income and homeless people in our community.

  • Lower Columbia College Head Start/EHS/ECEAP:   $20,000.00 to fund the kitchen renovation at the new Health Start facility to meet the needs of 3 & 4 year olds and comply with health and safety codes.

  • Lower Columbia School Gardens: $30,000.00 to build new school gardens at Robert Gray Elementary, Kessler Elementary and Cascade Middle School in Longview and complete the garden at Coweeman Middle School in Kelso.

  • National Alliance on Mental Illness, Southwest Washington: $35,800.00 to assist implementation of mental health services and provide support for individuals and families in our community.

  • Progress Center:  $15,000.00 to provide education to children with developmental delays and/or medical diagnoses.

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

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to promote the physical and mental health and health care of the people living within the service area of the Longview, Washington acute care hospital.