The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation is a community organization created as the result of the sale of the Pottstown Memorial Medical Center to Community Health Systems.  With net assets of $70.7 million as of September 30, 2009, the Foundation serves the residents of Pottstown borough and those within a 10-mile radius of the borough.

The Foundation’s purpose is to provide opportunities for our community to enthusiastically embrace a healthier lifestyle. We’re here to offer the tools and motivation for people to improve their health and well-being every day.

The Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to assuring increased access to health and wellness education and services. We provide these services directly through our own programs and through other non-profit health and wellness providers.

The Foundation provides grants to non-profit health and wellness providers, who use the money to develop and enhance programs that support our purpose. We take an outcomes-based approach to grant-making. Outcomes are things that benefit people, such as new knowledge, increased skills, a positive change in attitude or values, a positive change in behavior or an improved condition. We award grants to area organizations that best use their resources, services and products to help people improve their health and well-being.

In short, we’re here to help area residents improve their health and well-being every day. By doing so, we are creating a more dynamic and more vibrant community in which to live.