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Our Programs

John Muir Health supports vibrant and healthy communities through strong partnerships with nonprofit organizations, schools, clinics, and other community-based providers to address our community's most pressing needs. Our priority areas are identified through a community health needs assessment every three years, which is informed by input from community stakeholders. Selection Criteria John Muir Health focuses its efforts on developing and investing in programs that serve vulnerable populations which include those with:

  • Evidenced-based disparities in health outcomes
  • Significant barriers to care, including isolation, frailty, language or cultural barriers, transportation or mobility challenges, and geographic isolation
  • Economic disadvantages, as experienced by uninsured, underinsured, immigrant and refugee, unhoused and working poor communities.
Selection Criteria

John Muir Health focuses its efforts on programs that address vulnerable populations which include those with:

  • Evidenced-based disparities in health outcomes, such as African Americans with heart disease, African American women with breast cancer, and African Americans and Latinos with diabetes
  • Significant barriers to care, including isolation, frailty, language or cultural barriers, transportation or mobility challenges, and difficulty voicing healthcare needs (such as children experience)
  • Economic disadvantages, as experienced by uninsured, underinsured, and working poor residents
Community Health Needs Assessment

Every three years John Muir Health and other community hospitals collaboratively conduct a community assessment to identify changes in demographics and health issues so that their community benefit programs can be focused on the populations most at risk. The following reports are the result of this work.

2022 Community Health Needs Assessment

2022 Community Health Needs Assessment

This report outlines John Muir Health’s strategies to address the community health needs identified in the Community Health Needs Assessment report.

Our Programs

John Muir Health partners with nonprofit organizations throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties to serve our community's most pressing needs.

View a full list of our community benefit partners: 2023 - 2025 Grantee & Program Partners