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Welcome to
Walton County Health Care Foundation Online
The Board of Directors of the Walton County
Health Care Foundation is pleased to welcome you to our web site. As a
fledgling foundation of only a few years since inception, we continue to
find our wings as we have worked to identify health issues where we can
have a positive influence on health and health care within our community.
Our mission embraces the complex assemblage of
issues contributing to personal health. A great deal of study continues to
be done to identify health issues that affect the greatest numbers among
us. Our primary goal is to find avenues that focus on prevention of these
health related conditions. We realize that education and early
intervention are key tools in addressing prevention.
Contingent with the sale of Walton Regional Medical Center to Health
Management Associates was an agreement for HMA to build a new hospital
facility in our community within five years and to continue to provide
critical care at the facility. Site preparation for the new hospital
occurred in April, 2008. We eagerly await the completion of the new Walton
Regional Medical Center by HMA. The Walton County Health Care Foundation
also focuses on health care delivery. Our support of health care
curriculum and teaching labs in our schools and colleges that train Walton
County students should help to address the shortage of trained and
professional health care providers and their support staffs.
Health care encompasses a complicated, diverse, and ever changing set of
challenges and issues. As we move into our third year of grant making, the
Foundation will continue to seek partnerships and to identify viable
initiatives with proven track records where our support might propel these
efforts to a higher level of success. These are exciting times for Walton
County! This Foundation will be working in the background to stimulate
growth and innovation surrounding the quality of life in our community.
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