Mission, Principles, and Policies

Our Mission

The Mission of the MetroWest Health Foundation is to improve the health status of the community, its individuals, and families through informed and innovative leadership.

Our Guiding Principles

• The Foundation will primarily focus on the unmet health needs of the community with particular concern to vulnerable populations of the poor, elderly and children;
  
• The Foundation will support programs that are not customarily operated by hospitals in Massachusetts and will not duplicate or support programs that are, have been or should be offered by MetroWest Medical Center;
  
• The Foundation will focus on the enhancement and expansion of community health rather than supplanting ongoing government services;
  
• The Foundation will make grants to non-profit organizations and government agencies to support eligible projects.
  
• The Foundation may develop and operate its own programs;
  
• The Foundation will seek to leverage resources as a catalyst for change; and,
  
• The Foundation will be accountable to the public interest and committed to ongoing involvement and communications with its constituencies.