January 13, 2021
MultiCare’s Community Partnership Fund allocated $500,000 locally in 2020
SPOKANE, Wash. — MultiCare Health System today announced that its Inland Northwest Region’s Community Partnership Fund awarded $500,000 to local non- profits and COVID relief efforts in 2020.
22 non-profits were awarded grants for a total of $250,000 with another $250,000 going to COVID relief efforts for a grand total of $500,000.
“Our Community Partnership Fund puts our value of collaboration into action,” said Dr. David O’Brien, MultiCare’s senior vice president and chief executive for the Inland Northwest Region. “By collaborating with our award recipients, we are taking a joint stake in our community and making our community stronger during these unprecedented times.”
Funds were divided to local non-profits in ten different categories including behavioral health, children, chronic disease, education, hunger, health care, homelessness, intentional injury, LGBTQ+, and oral health. Specifically, some of these, organizations include: 2ND Harvest, Ashley House, Big Table and many more. See the complete list of 2020 recipients.
About MultiCare
MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed health system in the state of Washington.
MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including MultiCare Indigo, Pulse Heart Institute and MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region.
MultiCare’s network of care includes 10 hospitals:
- MultiCare Allenmore Hospital, Tacoma
- MultiCare Auburn Medical Center, Auburn
- MultiCare Covington Medical Center, Covington
- MultiCare Deaconess Hospital, Spokane
- MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup
- Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, Tacoma
- MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital, Tacoma
- MultiCare Valley Hospital, Spokane Valley
- Navos Behavioral Health Hospital
- Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital