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Community Benefits

 
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Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital’s Community Benefits function seeks to develop and enhance partnerships that lead to healthy children, adolescents and expectant mothers in our community through common concern, collaborative action and shared resources. By partnering with existing and emerging community organizations and coalitions in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties that share Packard Children's mission, we can better understand and serve the community.
 

Key Operating Principles for Community Benefits

  • Focus resources specifically in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties

  • Continually increase our understanding of the local communities we serve and develop our programs based on formal and ongoing informal needs assessments

  • Prioritize needs and support long-term efforts to address those needs comprehensively

  • Support communities with a high rate of unmet health-related needs and/or high-risk populations

  • Work to identify and remedy the underlying causes of persistent health problems

  • Establish operational connections, including coordination between clinical programs and community health improvement activities

  • Target charitable resources to mobilize and build the capacity of existing community assets and always work in partnership with the community

  • Engage diverse community stakeholders in selection, design, implementation and evaluation of programs
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Community Service Priorities

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Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital’s community service priorities are designed, first and foremost, to protect and improve health and expand access to health services. We advocate solutions for the health-related issues of children and expectant mothers, and provide preventive health care with special emphasis on preventing pediatric obesity. We focus on at-risk children, youth and expectant women, serving vulnerable populations as well as the larger community.
 
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Advancing the State of the Art in Community Benefit

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital is helping to raise the standard of how hospitals can most effectively serve their communities. The hospital has joined 70 other hospitals in a national demonstration project called Advancing the State of the Art in Community Benefit. This project will develop and disseminate a national model for community benefit work that:
  • Increases program effectiveness and sustainability

  • Focuses activities in communities with disproportionate unmet health needs

  • Increases institutional accountability
Packard Children’s participation reflects the ways in which our own outreach initiatives have raised the bar for the industry. Best of all, they’ve improved the health status of more people in our neighboring communities.
 
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Learn More

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Please click one of the links below to learn more about Packard Children's Community Services.
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Contact Us

Please feel free to e-mail us with any questions or comments regarding Packard Children's Community Benefits activity.
 
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Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health | Stanford University School of Medicine | Stanford Hospital & Clinics