Community Engagement

Working Together to Make Our Communities Healthy Places to Live, Work and Play

WellSpan believes that our impact on health is strengthened by our partnerships with community organizations. Support for our vital partners includes community partnership grants, sponsorships and our ongoing work with local health coalitions in our counties. Maintaining and strengthening partnerships, with these entities and many others, is essential to building healthy and thriving communities for current and future generations. WellSpan supports the advancement of community-wide programs and services focused on preventive health and safety. Our Community Partnership Grant program invested $1.4 million in nonprofit organizations in 2022 as we supported initiatives that advanced our Community Health Improvement Plan priorities.

WellSpan also supported countless community organizations through sponsorships in 2022 totaling more than $1.8 million, some of which include:

• American Cancer Society's Relay for Life & Real Men Wear Pink
• American Heart Association's Go Red for Women, Heart Ball & Heart Walk
• Byrnes Health Education Center's 25th Anniversary Celebration
• Central Penn Business Journal’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Summit; Non-Profit Innovation Awards; Thought Leadership Series & Health Care Heroes
• Hospice & Community Care
• Recovery Day Lancaster
• Latino Health Festival
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Mission of Mercy in Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania Nightingale Awards
• Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition
• Pennsylvania Emergency Management System Conference
• Pridefest
• Rainbow Rose Center
• Sexual Assault Resource & Counseling Center (SARCC)
• United Disabilities Services Foundation
• United Ways of Adams, Franklin, Lebanon & York Counties
• York County Food Bank
• YWCA Race Against Racism (Lancaster & York)
• YWCA Walk a Mile in Her Shoes (Hanover & York)

The importance of working together for our communities was never more evident than when faced with COVID-19. The pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in our public health infrastructure and highlighted the importance of community preparedness. Through continued advocacy, planning and engagement, WellSpan and our community partners, Reaching Out Together, Make Health Happen.

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