Pottstown Area Health & WellnessFoundation

MISSION: The Foundation enhances the health and wellness of area residents, providing education, funding and programs that motivate people to adopt healthy lifestyles.

VISION: Area residents leading healthy lives through healthy lifestyles.

CORE PRINCIPLES:

To hold as paramount the health and wellness of the residents of the Pottstown area.

To ensure a diversity of views is solicited, represented and considered.

To maximize resources through community partnerships.

To regularly assess the Foundation’s effectiveness in meeting its mission.

CORE POLICIES:

The Foundation will identify, select and provide grants to non-profit Section 501 (c)(3) organizations that provide health and wellness related services in the Pottstown area.

The Foundation will identify, select and invest in and conduct, as appropriate, programs that will improve health and wellness in the Pottstown area.

The Foundation will actively promote, support and conduct educational programs that enable Pottstown area residents to improve their health and wellness.

The Foundation will engage in fund raising activities for the support of the Foundation and that assist in achieving the goals of community health and wellness.

The Foundation will monitor the agreements made between Community Health Systems, Inc. and the former Pottstown Healthcare Corporation.

GEOGRAPHIC AREA:

The Foundation will primarily serve residents within a ten mile radius of Pottstown.