Serving the communities of Windsor, Healdsburg, Geyserville, & Cloverdale
Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma County (“HFNSC”) was created on May 1, 2001. It was originally called the Northern Sonoma Healthcare Foundation, a name later changed for the sake of clarity. To some degree, the Foundation was an outgrowth of the experiences of several of its organizers as they served on the Board of the Healdsburg Hospital Foundation an agency which is now defunct.
The Hospital Foundation had been solely “owned and controlled” by the non-profit corporation that operated the Healdsburg General Hospital prior to April 2001. That Hospital, and its owner corporation, ran into serious financial trouble, and during the winter of 2000-2001 it became obvious that public ownership of the Hospital was necessary to its survival. Healdsburg General Hospital, its controlling corporation, and the Hospital Foundation were about to be history. It was also clear, however, that a new independent foundation devoted to financially assisting the publicly owned hospital would be beneficial. Several of the Hospital Foundation’s Directors resigned and subsequently organized HFNSC.
Those Directors were aware of the needs of Alliance Medical Center (“AMC”) and the important services it provided for the community and they felt that AMC should be included in the list of prospective beneficiaries for the Foundation. The organizers also recognized that other healthcare facilities in northern Sonoma County might well, then or in the future, need and deserve financial assistance. Therefore, the new foundation was not limited to one or two possible beneficiaries, but rather was empowered to make grants to any healthcare provider in our area.
Today Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma County is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization which raises capital funds to support quality healthcare services for all residents of northern Sonoma County - essentially all who live or work in the communities of Windsor, Healdsburg, Geyserville, Cloverdale, and north to the Mendocino County line. The Foundation is volunteer-led and governed by a 20-member Board of Directors whose members reflect a cross-section of our community-at-large and strives for diversity in ethnicity, gender, community based experience, geography and professional expertise.