NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION
PO BOX 4427, SALINAS, CA 93912 www.natividadfoundation.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: We bring people together to strengthen Natividad, the one place that safeguards the lives and livelihoods of everyone in Monterey County. We develop innovative programs like indigenous interpreting+, provide specialized medical technology, enhance the County's state-of-the-art Trauma Center and support its high-quality rehabilitation center. Our partnerships with funders, community leaders and the medical center transform health care into solutions that heal people and unite our communities.

Natividad Medical Foundation brings people together to strengthen Natividad Medical Center, transforming health care into solutions that heal people, unite a community and stand as models for the nation.

Funds granted to satisfy restrictions placed on contributions including support for medical equipment, language access services, spiritual care, medical staff education and basic needs like patient transportation, medical and shelter assistance and food vouchers. Continued fundraising by The Agricultural Leadership Council (TALC) whose combined members have donated more than $3.2 million to Natividad Foundation since 2010 for medical equipment and cross-cultural initiatives. Continued to fund CHOICE, a violence intervention and prevention program modeled after the proven University of California, San Franciscos Wraparound Project at San Francisco General Hospital. The program has achieved a 99% success rate in preventing re-injury among victims of violence enrolled in the CHOICE program for the past five (5) years. With donations from employees of Monterey County and a combination of grants, Natividad Foundation continued to meet urgent, basic medical needs for vulnerable patients, including homeless individuals, women, children and people living with HIV/AIDS. Funds provide assistance for the most basic needs, including food, clothing, medication, emergency shelter and free indigenous interpreter services for the DArrigo Family Specialty Services; Child Advocacy Center for victims of child abuse and neglect; the Emergency Department; and the Neonatal Intensive Care, Labor & Delivery and Mother- Infant Units. With an eighth year of grant funding from the Community Foundation for Monterey County along with other grants, provided diabetes prevention education for 103 low-income adults, with a 63% retention rate, throughout Monterey County through 5 Steps to Prevent Diabetes. 5 Steps continues to demonstrate meaningful positive changes in lifestyle behaviors correlated with reducing the risk of developing diabetes, including increased consumption of fruits and vegetables; increased daily physical activity; and increased use of strategies to eat healthfully with a limited income.

Through Natividad Foundation, the hospital continued its health promotion program activities through the American Association of Diabetes Educators-Accredited Diabetes Education Center. The Diabetes Education Center is the first and only Center of its kind in Monterey County providing a free, culturally appropriate, low literacy, diabetes prevention education program focusing on underserved adults and youth with diabetes types 1 and 2, women with gestational diabetes and individuals with pre-diabetes.

Continued operating Indigenous Interpreting+, a service of Natividad Foundation, to provide trained interpreters for rare languages from Mexico and Central America, including Mixteco, Zapoteco, Chatino and Triqui.

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