Caring for the community is at the heart of what we do at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF). Our participation in activities that benefit the communities we serve goes well beyond the walls of our health care centers, reaching out to those who need us the most. In 2007, PAMF provided $12.4 million in services for the poor and underserved, and $4.8 million in community benefits for the broader community.

PAMF has Community Advisory Councils in the following communities: Dublin, Fremont, Mountain View/Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz and Southern San Mateo County (Redwood City, San Carlos/Belmont). Council members provide advice and information about the health needs of the community, existing health-related programs that merit Foundation support, the need for new community programs, opportunities for collaboration on health-related community programs, ways to promote our community programs and evalutaing outcomes of Foundation community programs.

Here is a partial list of PAMF’s community activities in 2007 and 2008:

Addressing Family Health

• Childhood Obesity Initiative
  
• Free child immunizations
  
• Free health education programs at Community Resource Food Distribution Days
  
• Healthy Families and Healthy Kids programs
  
• Tattoo-removal programs
  
• Women's breast cancer and heart disease outreach programs

Partnering with Community Clinics, Schools Districts and Other Organizations

• Access to Medical Care Program
  
• Adolescent Counseling Services
  
• Central Coast Alliance for Health Commission
  
• Community Chronic Care Network
  
• Dientes Community Dental Clinic
  
• Friends of Children with Special Needs
  
• LIFE ElderCare
  
• Mountain View Unified School District
  
• Palo Alto Unified School District
  
• Pathways Home Health, Hospice & Private Duty
  
• Ravenswood Family Health Center
  
• Redwood City Library Foundation
  
• Regional Community Advisory Councils
  
• RotaCare Free Clinic
  
• Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments
  
• SafeKids Coalition of San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties
  
• Salud Para la Gente
  
• San Carlos Educational Foundation
  
• San Carlos School District
  
• Santa Clara Unified School District
  
• Santa Cruz Health Improvement Partnership
  
• Siena House Maternity Home
  
• Sunnyvale Community Services Agency
  
• Sunnyvale Unified School District
  
• Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coalition
  
• Tri-City Homeless Coalition
  
• Watsonville High School

Educating on Health

• Better Hearing Health Day
  
• Breast Cancer Awareness Day
  
• Cancer Survivorship Day
  
• Drug and Alcohol Social Norms Project in local secondary schools
  
• Employer and community health fairs
  
• Free community health lectures
  
• Free counseling services for Advance Health Care Directives
  
• Health education classes and presentations
  
• Health resource centers in Dublin, Fremont, Mountain View and Palo Alto
  
• Internships, preceptorships and scholarships for health professionals in training
  
• Meet the Dietitian Day
  
• Parent education programs with local school districts
  
• Pediatric environmental toolkit
  
• Prostate Cancer Awareness Day
  
• School Youth Nutrition Program
  
• Web site health education

Managing Disease

• CarePages Online Cancer Support Services
  
• Classes focused on specific diseases/conditions
  
• Diabetes management programs
  
• Dominican Stroke Team
  
• Free community blood pressure screenings
  
• Free flu immunizations to underinsured and uninsured seniors
  
• Free skin cancer screenings
  
• Go for Health: Obesity Initiative/United Way
  
• Hospice Physicians Advisory Committee
  
• PAMFOnline and myCaminoMedical e-health services
  
• Senior health with health screenings and monitoring
  
• Support groups
  
• Weight management programs

Helping the Global Community

• Earthquake relief in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
  
• Helps International
  
• Hurricane Katrina relief
  
• PRANA Web site
  
• Physician and employee volunteer activities
  
• Teen and preteen health Web sites