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St. Mary's Awards Over $70,000 in Community Grants

Posted on: Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 15:01 CST

St. Mary's Medical Center has awarded grants in the range of $10,000 each to seven local community benefit organizations that provide critical health and human services to residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Administration, mission and community benefit representatives distributed the grants during a breakfast held at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel on January 25, 2007. Representatives from Sequoia Hospital and St. Francis Memorial Hospital were also present to award grants to their recipients.

"This program is one of the most important ways St. Mary's demonstrates its commitment to the Community," said Brother George Cherrie, Vice President, Mission and Community Services at St. Mary's. "The organizations we have selected all provide services to underserved populations: economically poor, women and children, mentally or physically disabled, or other disenfranchised populations."

The CHW Community Grants Program originated in 1990 to provide support and funding to community-based organizations that provide services to people in need. Since 1990, CHW has awarded $24.7 million to 1,567 projects. The objective of the Community Grants Program is to award grants to nonprofit organizations whose proposals respond to the priorities identified in the health assessment and/or the community benefit plans of its hospitals. Grant recipients are required to complete a detailed grant proposal outlining the purpose and scope of the project to be funded, as well as the population to be served, the project's outcomes, plans for long-term operation and measurement of success.

St. Mary's Medical Center annually sets aside revenues to fund the community grant awards. St. Mary's strongly believes in its missions of serving and advocating for the poor and disenfranchised in our community, and partnering with others in the community to improve the quality of life. The Community Grants Program is one way in which these missions are served.

This year's community grants were awarded to the following San Francisco organizations:

Kimochi, Inc., San Francisco- nonprofit organization that provides a program of culturally sensitive care for senior citizens, primarily serving the Japanese American community.

On Lok's 30th Street Senior Services, San Francisco- provides a spectrum of care for seniors in the Mission, Noe Valley, Diamond Heights, Glen Park and St. Mary's Park neighborhoods of San Francisco.

Shanti Project, San Francisco- Shanti enhances the quality of life, health, and well-being of people living with Breast Cancer and HIV/AIDS in San Francisco.

St. Paul of the Shipwreck Food Pantry, San Francisco- to prevent homelessness and promote stability in family life, by assisting residents of Bayview Hunters Point and Visitation Valley in providing for their basic nutritional needs.

Transitions Clinic (Southeast Health Center), San Francisco- a clinic providing care to parolees, persons recently released from prison, and their families.

St. Vincent de Paul- Rosalie House, San Francisco- one of only three emergency shelters for battered women both with and without children in San Francisco, providing a 24-hour crisis line, up to twelve weeks in a 25-bed emergency shelter, food, clothing, peer counseling, support groups, advocacy, case management, and children's services.

About St. Mary's Medical Center:

For nearly 150 years, St. Mary's Medical Center has provided the Bay Area with compassionate, personalized care combined with the latest advances in medical care and cutting-edge technology. St. Mary's is a full-service acute care facility with more than 575 physicians and 1,100 employees who provide high-quality and affordable health care services to the Bay Area community and patients from around the world. Home to advanced medical practices, such as the nation's first digital cardiac catheterization laboratory, pioneering spine surgery and comprehensive rehabilitation, St. Mary's Medical Center is one of San Francisco's leading hospitals, offering patients a full range of outpatient and inpatient services delivered with the human touch.

For more information, visit www.stmarysmedicalcenter.org

Source: Business Wire

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