Areas of Need: Community Health

CPMC Foundation's Annual Priorities, which we hope you will consider supporting

• Hepatitis B Free Screening Project
  (health for high-risk groups)
• The Institute for Health & Healing
  (integrative medicine)
• Coming Home Hospice
  (end of life care)
• Bayview Child Health Center
  (pediatrics)
• Child Life Program
  (pediatrics)
• Kalmanovitz Child Development Center
  (pediatrics)
• St. Luke's Pediatric Clinic
  (pediatrics)
• St. Luke's Women's Center
  (women's services)
• African American & Sister-to-Sister
  Breast Health Programs
  (women's services)
• Women’s Health Resource Center
  (women's services)

Hepatitis B Free Screening Project
(health for high-risk groups)

Funding need: $75,000
The hepatitis B virus can silently hide within the body. And 20% - 30% of those who carry the virus will develop cirrhosis and/or liver cancer. But this is largely preventable with appropriate medical care. Working with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, CPMC initiated the Hepatitis B Free Screening Project for Asian and Pacific Islanders and other high-risk groups. In the first two years the Program screened 3,120 people. Your gift will help us fulfill our goal of screening at least 3,000 more individuals over the next two years.
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The Institute for Health & Healing
(integrative medicine)

Annual funding need: $630,000
Bay Area residents know there is more than one route to health and healing, more than one way to stop pain, lower blood pressure, fight cancer, and beat depression. They know the benefits of massage, acupuncture, nutritional counseling, and yoga. They value these approaches, and they know where to find them: CPMC’s Institute for Health & Healing, one of the largest integrative medical centers in the country. What started as a modest lecture series is now a phenomenon, globally respected and widely copied. Your gift will support the invaluable work of this Institute, where the science and spirit of medicine come together to heal the whole person.
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Coming Home Hospice
(end of life care)

Annual funding need: $650,000
At the end of life, the simple things matter most: family and friends, a peaceful setting, dignity and comfort. Since 1987, more than 2,800 men and women with terminal cancer, AIDS and other illnesses have found the right balance at Coming Home Hospice, San Francisco’s only licensed residential hospice facility for end of life diseases. Insurers only cover about half the annual budget; the rest depends on people like you, who recognize the value of life’s most precious moments.
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Bayview Child Health Center
(pediatrics)

Annual funding need: $650,000
Ten thousand children live in San Francisco’s Bayview Hunter’s Point community, more than in any other part of town. Yet, until 2007, they only had one pediatrician to serve them. These children are more likely than any other local children to end up in the hospital—and three times more likely to die while they are still babies. Since CPMC opened its Bayview Child Health Center on Evans Street, it’s been the place to go for pediatric immunizations, regular exams, obesity education, mental health services, asthma care—you name it.

Your support for Bayview Child Health Center will also assist the Center as it co-locates and partners with the new Center for Youth WellnessOpens new window and the San Francisco Child Advocacy Center to create an innovative approach to providing a full spectrum of services designed around the whole child under one roof.
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Child Life Program
(pediatrics)

Annual funding need: $94,000
They are sometimes called “the bubble blowers” or the “toy people”. The formal title is Child Life SpecialistOpens new window. What they do is close to miraculous. These extensively trained and educated Specialists help sick or injured children cope with emotional and sometimes terrifying hospital experiences. They also provide support to parents and family. You are invited to help provide this compassionate service to more families. Your gift will help fund an additional Child Life position to meet the increased demand. Every frightened child who enters the hospital will be grateful!
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Kalmanovitz Child Development Center
(pediatrics)

Annual funding need: $350,000
When CPMC's Child Development CenterOpens new window was founded in 1952, most of the young patients had cerebral palsy or birth defects. Today such challenges are only the tip of the iceberg, as the health of the American child has grown more complex: Many of the children seen here have survived drugs in the womb. Many were born prematurely. Many have learning disabilities. Autism is epidemic, as are eating disorders. Resources are stretched thin for many families. With your gift, you can help the Center provide services to a child whose family cannot otherwise afford it.
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St. Luke's Pediatric Clinic
(pediatrics)

Annual funding need: $500,000
If you are five years old with asthma or stomach pains, and if you live in San Francisco's South of Market district in a low-income family, health care at CPMC's St. Luke's campusOpens new window is your “safety net” when other options are few. Here are found a skilled, compassionate, multi-lingual staff and a full range of pediatric services. No child chooses a life of vulnerability. Philanthropy alone can deliver a healthy start to thousands of SOMA youngsters.
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St. Luke's Women's Center
(women's services)

Annual funding need: $100,000
Without health care at CPMC's St. Luke's campusOpens new window, quality medical care would be out of reach for many women who live in the South of Market neighborhoods of San Francisco. Those who have no insurance, or only catastrophic coverage, those who speak limited English and have no easy way to cross town for health care, often end up needing emergency care. Your help is urgently needed to keep women’s services - prenatal care, labor and delivery, mammography, gestational diabetes care, and much more - at St. Luke’s, a small-town hospital right in the middle of the city.
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African American & Sister-to-Sister
Breast Health Programs
(women's services)

Annual funding need: $200,000
Caucasian women experience a higher rate of breast cancer than African American women, but African American women have a lower survival rate: 77% for African Americans compared to 90% for Caucasians. These differences can be attributed to cultural barriers and a lack of access to breast cancer screening and treatment. But that’s changing, thanks to the African American & Sister-to-Sister Breast Health ProgramsOpens new window. This year, with your help, hundreds of free clinical breast exams, annual mammograms and follow-up services will be provided to at-risk populations, such as African Americans, Latinas, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) populations, the homeless, and women under the age of 40 with a strong family history of breast cancer.
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Women’s Health Resource Center
(women's services)

Annual funding need: $100,000
One woman just learned she has ovarian cancer. Another has osteoporosis. A third is trying to leave a violent domestic relationship. Every year, 10,000 women visit the Women’s Health Resource CenterOpens new window for information, classes, and support groups(where they meet other women who understand and care). Your gift will continue to make these services available to every woman who seeks them.

Because life is precious, we encourage giving to life and a lifetime of giving.

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