Purpose:

The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation provides opportunities for our community to enthusiastically embrace a healthier lifestyle.

Vision:

Area residents leading healthy lives through healthy lifestyles.

Mission:

The Foundation enhances the health and wellness of area residents, providing education, funding and programs that motivate people 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.