This year the Board of Directors of The Health Care Foundation is pleased to announce our 2015 awards of grants totaling $304,424.00 to the following recipients and programs.
Children’s Community Resources: $100,000 (year one of a two-year $200,000 grant) to improve access and increase community capacity for integrated pediatric medical and mental health care for local underserved, at-risk children.
Cowlitz Free Clinic: $50,000.00 to fund 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: $20,000.00 is awarded to assist needy community members to pay for emergency prescriptions, dental care and some medical services.
Life Works: $5,624.00 in funding to purchase and install a Hydrotherapy Tub to assist the movements of people with physical disabilities.
Lions Sight and Hearing Foundation of Cowlitz County: $10,000.00 to provide eye and hearing care for low income and homeless people in our community.
Lower Columbia School Gardens: $20,000.00 is awarded to help build a new school garden at Kelso’s Beacon Hill Elementary School and to purchase needed equipment.
Community House and Youth & Family LINK: $98,800.00 is awarded to reach out to children in Community House and County-wide who are in need to health care and related services to improve their lives.
The Health Care Foundation is a local organization, founded to perpetuate the community’s investment in the Monticello Medical Center. Our mission is to promote the physical and mental health care of the people in our community. From its inception over 30 years ago over 11.5 million dollars have been distributed to local health care organizations.
For more information please contact Mary Jane Melink, Executive Director, The Health Care Foundation at (360) 423-3591
