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The John Muir/Mt. Diablo Community Health Fund performs one of John Muir Health's most important community benefit functions: Distributing grants to community-based, nonprofit organizations whose health care capabilities and trusted relationships with uninsured and under-served populations expand and enhance health care services for those who need them most in central and east Contra Costa County.
From 1997 through 2009, John Muir Health invested nearly $18 million in the Community Health Fund's community benefit grant programs. We've distributed that money through a unique process that nurtures long-term partnerships with and among community-based nonprofits, and which results in sustainable health initiatives and systemic change.
Many programs that receive their start from us continue long past the grant periods and to this day deliver critical health care services. Consequently, many thousands of Contra Costa residents who might have slipped through the cracks in our healthcare system have ongoing access to high quality, culturally sensitive primary care, specialty care, dental care, and healthy aging support services for conditions that range from cancer and chronic disease through dental caries and mental illness.
It is our mission to deliver the same kinds of results to the many more in central and east Contra Costa who still struggle to find adequate care.