Pacific Foundation for Medical Care supports non-profit, health related projects that enhance the availability or quality of health services in communities. Since 1993, PFMC has provided more than $1.4 million in grant awards to 75 different organizations and programs in the North San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego County.
In Spring 2018, PFMC awarded a total of $35,000 to the following recipients:
Alzheimer’s San Diego – San Diego County
To assist with the annual cost of free supportive programs and services for those with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, their families, caregivers and the community.
Center for Well-Being – Sonoma County
Education and prevention grant to expand diabetes self-management services to uninsured and under insured residents. Specifically low income adults and monolingual Spanish speakers.
Father Joe’s Villages – Sand Diego County
To help fund the Village Family Health Center that provides services for homeless people in the community. The funding will go toward direct clinic operations, which includes medical supplies, pharmacy expenses and radiology services.
Hearts of Sonoma County – Sonoma County
To support Hearts of Sonoma County, a 12 month clinical learning collaborative to advance and spread higher quality comprehensive cardiovascular disease prevention and care management within local provider organizations..
Hospice by the Bay – Sonoma and Marin Counties
To support the telehealth video conferencing visits with physicians and advanced practice nurses from our office location in Marin and Sonoma Counties to increase access and improve patient/family satisfaction.
iDo26.2 Program – Center for Well Being – Sonoma County
To expand the iDo26.2 program to 2,500 youth from low-income communities. The program encourages regular physical activity to help with obesity prevention and related chronic disease prevention in youth.
Jewish Community Free Clinic – Sonoma County
General operating support weekly clinics with an all-volunteer staff that provides free medical care and social services to any uninsured person in need.
Operation Access – Bay Area Counties
To support work to provide donated surgeries, specialty care and diagnostic screenings to the uninsured in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, Solano and Sonoma counties.
Siyan Clinical Research – Sonoma County
To support the Project Rebuild program offering free mental health support and services for low-income, uninsured or underinsured adults suffering with clinical depression and/or PTSD as a result of the wildfires.
Sonoma County Regional Parks – Sonoma County
To support the Nature Heals series of programs to help children from fire-impacted schools and local low-income residents enhance their mental health following the trauma of the firestorm.
United Cerebral Palsy of the North Bay – Sonoma County
To fund conductive education specialized equipment and furniture for year round activities including the new Academic Classroom program.