Parma Community General Hospital formed the Parma Hospital Health Care Foundation in 1987 as a way to give something back to the communities it serves. The Foundation's mission is to provide funding for community health initiatives and Parma Hospital projects and programs.

The Parma Hospital Health Care Foundation is a not-for-profit organization and does not receive any tax dollar support. The Foundation relies on community support through special events like the annual golf outing; outright donations and planned gifts such as bequests and transfers of securities.

Past beneficiaries of Foundation grants include but are not limited to: Parma Hospital's Seasons of Life Hospice, Parma Health Ministry, Parma City Schools, Ridgewood YMCA, American Cancer Society's "Relay For Life", Health Museum of Cleveland's "Health on Wheels" program, Parma Fire House for student education and selected high school seniors in the Hospital's service area. Their first capital campaign raised $3,000,000 to build the Seasons of Life Residential Hospital which opened in 2001…the first such facility in western Cuyahoga County.

The first ever Health Advancement Award was presented to the Foundation in 1995 by the Ohio Hospital Association. The award recognizes hospitals with "visionary leadership that have created new care delivery programs and services focusing community-wide preventative health care."

For more information about giving opportunities, applying for a grant or the Parma Hospital Health Care Foundation, please call us at 440-743-4280, e-mail us at foundation@parmahospital.org or write to us at 7007 Powers Boulevard, Parma, Ohio 44129.