Backed by our donors, supporters and partners, Wellstar Foundation is making a big impact today and for the future. We’re staying true to our commitment of delivering world-class clinical services and improving accessibility and equity in healthcare for all.
With a focus on preventative, whole-person care that extends beyond our walls and into our communities, Wellstar is leading the way in transforming healthcare. Explore our strategic focus areas to learn more about how we’re making an impact and accelerating action through your compassion and donations.
In Georgia, health outcomes are significantly impacted by where you live and disproportionately correlated to other demographic dimensions, such as age, gender, race/ethnicity and citizenship status. Wellstar is the only health system in Georgia with an established Center for Health Equity. This Center activates system-wide strategies, initiatives and programs across service lines and in the community that address health disparities, with a current focus on access to care, behavioral health, food access and healthy living, pediatrics and women’s health.
We’re helping to ensure all Georgians have access to high-quality healthcare, behavioral health services, nutritious food, chronic disease management, housing, pediatrics, women’s health services and preventative care.
Wellstar Foundation is funding a two-year Food is Medicine pilot program at Douglas Graduate Medical Education facility to combat food insecurity and chronic disease, offering screenings, fresh vegetables and wellness coaching to patients diagnosed with diet related illnesses like diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
The Callaway Foundation awarded Wellstar Foundation a $1.1M grant to expand Small TALK, Wellstar's Literacy and Justice for All initiative, to affiliated Pediatrics and OB-GYN offices in West Georgia. Small TALK aims to improve high school graduation rates and social determinants of health by promoting early language development during the first three years of life, when 80% of brain development occurs.
Wellstar received a $5.5M grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources & Services Administration to reduce disparities in infant mortality and perinatal outcomes and enhance behavioral, mental and women's health. The program serves Spalding, Butts and Troup counties.
Georgia ranks 34 out of 50 for access to mental health services, and suicides among young Georgians have doubled over the last decade. Wellstar is committed to changing that — providing holistic care that promotes physical and mental well-being. We’re establishing an integrated approach to behavioral care that combines innovation, best practices and evidence-based treatments to offer care centered around the needs of the individual.
Wellstar Foundation received $2M from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to expand the Wellstar Zero Suicide Program. This program trains and equips clinicians and caregivers in our emergency departments and hospitals to recognize and provide the right care for patients presenting with a mental health crisis.
PGA Tour Golfer Kevin Kisner and his wife Brittany, committed $5.3M to establish developmental and behavioral health services for the pediatric behavioral health center at Wellstar Children's Hospital of Georgia.
With behavioral health needs among youth on the rise, grant funding provided from the Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation is providing a way to integrate behavioral health services into pediatrics and offer additional resources and safety measures for youth struggling with their mental health. Listen here or watch these videos.
Wellstar is focused on investing in fresh, bold ideas for improving healthcare for all Georgians. From advanced preventative treatments to new wearable technologies that help individuals track and manage their health better, Wellstar is at the forefront of delivering cutting-edge, convenient care that helps patients proactively manage their health and wellness journeys.
Catalyst aims to build better healthcare by addressing challenges, creating solutions and partnering across industries to deploy a true ecosystem of care.
Wellstar also received the Center for Global Health Innovation HRSA Grant, which deploys community health workers to continue our efforts focused on increasing COVID vaccination rates, including making vaccines available at community events.
The ROSA One Brain robotic platform aids neurosurgeons in planning and performing complex yet minimally invasive procedures.
People power our mission to deliver world-class healthcare. Wellstar is helping to build a sustainable pipeline of healthcare professionals who reflect the communities they serve, ensuring that future generations of Georgians have access to high-quality care from expert providers and healthcare career pathways that enable greater economic mobility.
Generous support from partners like Georgia Power and Microsoft helped expand the Wellstar CareerCare program, which provides team members with 10 fully funded career pathways in high-demand healthcare roles.
To help meet the shortage of healthcare workers, the Cobb County School District and Wellstar Health System are introducing high school students to healthcare careers through the healthcare pathway at CITA.
Thanks to donor support, Wellstar Foundation funded a clinical role at Chattahoochee Technical College to train LPNs in an accelerated RN program.
At Wellstar, PeopleCare means working relentlessly to exceed national standards for care and treating every patient as a person while we do it. It’s ensuring access to world-class personalized care whenever and wherever it’s needed. And through philanthropy and partnership, we’re accelerating our ability to provide holistic, personalized and innovative care for generations to come.
The Illuminate Aortic Surveillance Software Program brings aortic care teams together to create a Comprehensive Aortic Program that will lead to improved health outcomes and help manage and track aneurysms.
In response to rapid growth of robotic surgery and surgeons, Wellstar Foundation helped fund the Da Vinci and CORI Robots for Wellstar Kennestone, Wellstar Cobb and Wellstar Douglas Medical Centers.
Level 1 Trauma Centers must demonstrate the highest level of trauma care and clinical expertise for severe injuries, enhancing patient outcomes through research and education.
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