Dignity Health - St. Mary Medical Center Provides Vital Funding to LINC Housing and Project Angel Food

Back: Paul Lovely, CARE Center Executive Director, Robert Boller, Project Angel Food Director, Mona Lee, Project Angel Food Director, Richard Ayoub, Project Angel Food Executive Director, Stacey Slevcove, LINC Housing Development Manager, Nina Dooley, LINC Housing VP of Corporate Development. Front: Kit Katz, St. Mary Director of Community Benefits, Sister Celeste Trahan, St. Mary Vice President of Mission Integration, and Suny Lay Chang, LINC Housing COO

Dignity Health - St. Mary Medical Center recently awarded two local non-profit organizations,  LINC Housing and Project Angel Food, with essential funding to improve and expand their services to persons in need. “The Community Health Grant Program is one way the hospital can work collaboratively to improve the health and wellness of the communities we serve,” shared Carolyn Caldwell, St. Mary Hospital President. “Community partnerships are essential to expanding our mission to provide compassionate, high-quality care for everyone.”

St. Mary provided LINC Housing an $80,000 grant to expand health and wellness services for TAY (Transition Age Youth) at the Palace in Long Beach. The Palace is reserved for youth ages 18-24 that have aged out of the foster care system. This grant will allow LINC staff to work with partners in placing homeless youth at The Palace; assess their health needs; pilot health education; assist residents with navigating resources; launch preventive programs; and provide referrals alongside other community partners. Over the past 35 years, LINC has helped create more than 7,800 affordable homes in 76 communities throughout California.

Project Angel Food has been given a $63,000 grant to expand home delivery of medically tailored meals and nutritional counseling for older persons living in Long Beach with chronic conditions, specifically HIV/AIDS, cancers, congestive heart failure and diabetes. This grant will alleviate malnutrition, reduce food-related stress, increase medication adherence and improve well-being and health of participants through a collaborative partnership between a food pantry, distribution center, and volunteer outreach. Project Angel Food was created 30 years ago by a group of compassionate volunteers who were concerned about our most fragile community members suffering in silence from malnutrition and the many other ravages of HIV/AIDS and has expanded its effective services to any person battling critical illness.

Sister Celeste Trahan, Vice President of Mission Integration at St. Mary Medical Center, shared her gratitude for these critical partnerships and offered blessings to the staff and volunteers as they continue their mission to serve. “These two special organizations and their mission to improve population health will lead to healthier communities overall,” stated Sister Celeste.

Since 1991, Dignity Health has awarded over $70 million to 3,382 community-based health improvement projects through its Community Grants Program. For more information, please visit dignityhealth.org/about-us/community-health/grant-programs.

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