Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation

PURPOSE: The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation ensures equitable opportunities for all community members to embrace a healthier lifestyle. VISION: Area residents are living vibrant, healthy, thriving lives. MISSION: The Foundation enhances the health and wellness of area residents, providing education, funding, and programs that provide equitable access and opportunities for all residents to adopt healthy lifestyles. CORE PRINCIPLES: - To hold as paramount the health and wellness of residents of the Pottstown area. - To ensure that a diversity of views is solicited, represented and considered. - To maximize resources through community partnerships. - To regularly assess the Foundation's effectiveness in meeting its mission. CORE POLICIES: - Identify, select and provide grants to non-profit Section 501 (c) (3) organizations that provide health and wellness-related services in the Pottstown area. - Identify, select, invest in and conduct, as appropriate, programs that improve health and wellness in the Pottstown area. - Actively promote, support and conduct educational programs that enable Pottstown area residents to improve their health and wellness. - Monitor the agreements made between Community Health Systems Inc. and the former Pottstown Healthcare Corporation.