Submitted by MultiCare Health System
MultiCare Health System’s Community Partnership Fund has awarded $600,000 to 110 organizations in Western Washington focused on addressing housing and homelessness, food insecurity, health care and children’s needs.
The Fund supports organizations in Pierce, King, Thurston and Kitsap counties. Organizations include, Korean Women’s Association, Oasis Youth Center, Medical Teams International, South Sound Habitat for Humanity and Living Well Kent Collaborative.
“Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen a consistent need in the community for care, services and resources,” said Lois Bernstein, Chief Community Executive for MultiCare. “We are proud to partner with organizations whose mission is to improve the lives of those in our community.”
MultiCare’s Community Partnership Fund has given more than $3.6 million in its first six years to hundreds of groups across the state to support programs that improve the health and well-being of communities. To learn more about the Community Partnership Fund, visit multicare.org/communitypartnership. The full list of 2021 recipients for the Puget Sound region is located here.
About MultiCare
MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed health system in the state of Washington.
MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care, Pulse Heart Institute and MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region.
MultiCare’s network of care includes 11 hospitals:
- MultiCare Allenmore Hospital, Tacoma
- MultiCare Auburn Medical Center, Auburn
- MultiCare Capital Medical Center, Olympia
- MultiCare Covington Medical Center, Covington
- MultiCare Deaconess Hospital, Spokane
- MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup
- Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, Tacoma
- MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital, Tacoma
- MultiCare Valley Hospital, Spokane Valley
- Navos Behavioral Health Hospital
- Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital
