Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center Awards Nearly $300,000 in Community Benefit Grants

Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center recently hosted a Community Benefit Partner Reception to award and recognize 34 local nonprofit organizations from the San Gabriel Valley with community benefit grants totaling close to $300,000.

“Kaiser Permanente is driven by our social mission to improve the health and well-being of the communities in which we serve,” says Maggie Pierce, Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center. “Through our work with local agencies and our community benefit grant program that enables us to address some of the health and social issues facing our communities, we are able to realize this mission. In these challenging economic times, it is even more crucial that our social commitment remain strong. We are honored to work with all of our community benefit partners to help build healthy communities impacting current and future generations.”

Funding to organizations is based on the findings from a community health needs assessment conducted in 2013 which included data research as well as community consultation with local community leaders and residents. The priority areas of need identified in the assessment include programs that improve access to primary and specialty health care services, programs that reduce obesity and the onset of complications from chronic diseases, and social service programs that respond to the needs of at-risk youth, alcohol/substance abuse, violence prevention, and the provision of basic needs for the underserved.

Among the recipients is the Baldwin Park Police Department that received grants to help fund a K-9 unit and its PRIDE Platoon Boot Camp Program.

“I truly want to thank Kaiser Permanente and its leadership for their community minded partnership of shared civic responsibility with community and government, whose collective goal is to foster a type of community wellness through enhanced social and cultural human capital,” says Chief Mike Taylor, Baldwin Park Police Department. “Their continued generous support of the community through their sponsorship of several safety and social healing programs with financial donations, coupled with volunteered time of their personnel are essential resources that help provide a quality of life that is both safe and prosperous.”

Photo: Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Leadership congratulates some of the grant recipients that support social service programs including the Baldwin Park Police Department.