In
addition to meeting the need
for high-quality health care,
Dignity Health gives back to the
community inmany other ways.
These are just some of the projects
made possible in part through
Dignity Health community grants:
MercyMedical CenterMt. Shasta
(MMCMS) granted funds to the
Great Northern Corporation to
address childhood obesity. The
corporation’s classes for low-income
families emphasize healthy eating
using the USDA’s Commodity
Supplemental Food Program.
According to Sister Elaine Stahl,
senior director of mission inte-
gration, MMCMS, “Learning to
All three facilities also give back
to their communities by funding
hospital programs and services
such as:
Healthier Living classes, which
promote self-management for
people living with any chronic
disease, from diabetes to
bromyalgia
Free discharge medications for
those who cannot a ord them
College scholarships for local
high school seniors planning
health care careers
If your nonprofit organization is interested
in applying for a Dignity Health Community
Grant, learn more at
morehealth.org/grants
.
Since 1990, Dignity Health has granted more than $50 million to
support more than 3,000 projects that improve quality care—and
overall quality of life—in the north state.
Beyond hospital walls
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prepare healthy meals using the
materials they’re given can make a
huge di erence to these families.”
MercyMedical Center Redding
granted funds to the Good News
Rescue Mission for an early inter-
vention program that helps people
with mental health issues receive
diagnoses and enter into e ective
treatment.
St. Elizabeth Community
Hospital
helps fund the Tehama
County Medical Waste Sharps
Collection program. The program’s
free disposal program for needles
helps keep this hazardous waste
out of local land lls.
Fast fact
In fiscal year 2014, funding
from Mercy Medical Center
Mt. Shasta Auxiliary ensured
free transportation to medical
appointments for 818 people, for
a total of 25,000 miles traveled.
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