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 2019, PFMC awarded a total of $35,000 to the following recipients:
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 speaking adults with type 2 diabetes.
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 of weekly clinics with an all-volunteer staff that provides free medical care and social services to any uninsured person in need.
United Cerebral Palsy of the North Bay – Sonoma County
To fund an AAC Specialist and an occupational Therapist for the 2019 Summer Intensive Program.
Whistlestop – Marin County
To expand access to medical care through MARS, by providing no-cost transportation to local clinics for a subset of 34,000 patients that have no means of transportation to appointments.