■ Wellstar West Georgia Enoch Callaway Cancer Center and Breast Friends for Life: Breast Friends For Life is an organization that holds support groups and events on local, regional, and large scales throughout the year. The biggest event being Paint the Town Pink on the square in LaGrange. Wellstar Foundation In the 2022 CHNA Implementation Plan, Wellstar Foundation committed to increasing investments from the philanthropic community that support women’s health. The Foundation leveraged relationships that align with an interest in women’s health for the purpose of philanthropy, and raised funding through events, grants, and individual gifts.
$11,925,000 in Wellstar Foundation investments to support women’s health from FY2022 to FY2024.
$225,000 donated to Cobb and Douglas Public Health “Babies Born Healthy” program
$1.2 million raised through the Wellstar Foundation Gala
$5.5 million awarded from the
$5 million donated by an anonymous individual donor
Health Resources and Services Administration to support Healthy Start
SUCCESS STORY: Wellstar Foundation hosted an Innovation Series event focused on Women’s Health to bring together community leaders, government officials, corporations and other women’s health organizations to discuss challenges and opportunities across the state. The first-of-its-kind event will shape Wellstar’s collaborative approach to women’s health improvement through innovative care models supported by philanthropy.
SUCCESS STORY: In 2024, with spearheading from Wellstar Foundation and Women’s Health Service Line, Wellstar became the recipient of a 5-year, $5.5 million, Healthy Start award from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Wellstar Healthy Start program integrates the OB/GYN care delivery model at Wellstar to directly impact the communities with the greatest need, including Spalding, Butts, and Troup counties. In fact, Troup County ranks among the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the state.
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