Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Awards Nearly $300K in Community Benefit Grants

Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center will be hosting a Community Benefit Partner Reception on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 5 p.m. at the South Hills Country Club in West Covina to award and recognize 36 nonprofit organizations from the San Gabriel Valley with community benefit grants ranging from $2,500 to $25,000.

Among the recipients will be the Baldwin Park Unified School District, the Baldwin Park Community Garden and the City of Baldwin Park Community Center, according to Gloria Buñuelos, Community Benefit Manager from Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park. 

“Kaiser Permanente is committed to our social mission to improve the health and well-being of the communities in which we serve,” says Maggie Pierce, executive director, Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center.

“This is realized in many ways, most notably, through our work with local agencies and our community benefit grant program that enables us to address some of the health and social issues facing our communities. In these economic times, it is even more crucial that our social commitment remain strong. We are honored to work with all of our community benefit partners to make lasting positive changes to help build healthy communities.”

Funding to organizations is based on the findings from a community health needs assessment conducted in 2010 which included data research as well as community consultation with local community leaders and residents.

The priority areas of need identified in the assessment include programs that improve access to health insurance and health care services, programs that reduce obesity and the onset of complications from chronic diseases, and social service programs that respond to the needs of at-risk youth, workforce development, and the provision of basic needs for the underserved.

San Gabriel Valley non-profits interested in learning more about Kaiser Permanente’s Community Benefit grants can call the medical center’s public affairs office at (626) 851-5223 for more information.

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