- Stanford Health Care’s community health and equity improvement work is based on public health data and input from community experts and residents. Go to Addressing Community Health Needs
- View Stanford Health Care’s current grant and sponsorship portfolio and other community involvement. Go to Community Partnerships and Offerings
- During 2024, Stanford Health Care contributed $791M in benefits to the community; an 8% increase from the previous year. Go to Annual Benefits to the Community
- See Stanford Medicine's latest community news, events, and happenings. Go to Stanford Medicine in Action
Every three years, Stanford Health Care conducts a community health needs assessment in partnership with local public health departments, community health experts, and residents, discovering ways to better serve our most vulnerable and underserved communities.
TARGET COMMUNITY
OUR FOCUS
The 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) identifies pressing health disparities, uncovers gaps in care, and offers strategies to address the drivers of and barriers to poor health across Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. These are the factors that patients and their families bring with them when seeking care at Stanford Health Care and influence their ability to get healthy, stay healthy, and be healthy at home.
Based on community priority and severity of disparities, the 2023 – 2025 Implementation Strategy Report reflects Stanford Health Care’s plan for addressing the following community health needs:
Community Partnerships and Offerings
Working with trusted organizations, Stanford Health Care strives to make a meaningful difference by addressing upstream factors that affect community health. Through community contributions, including investments, we support direct services focused on improving access to care, reducing economic and food insecurity, and preventing homelessness.
Roots Community Health Center
Operation Access
AC Care Alliance
LifeMoves
Avenidas Rose Kleiner Center
Senior Coastsiders
Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen
Peninsula Healthcare Connection
Second Harvest Food Bank
Momentum for Health
Peninsula Healthcare Connection
Sonrisas Dental Health, Inc.
Ravenswood Family Health Network
Destination: Home
Samaritan House
Downtown Streets Team

Community Based Volunteer Opportunities
Stanford Health Care leaders and staff offer expertise, advocacy, resources, and time to local and national professional organizations, nonprofit community service organizations, and advocacy groups. If you have a volunteer opportunity and are interested in recruitment amongst our staff, please contact us.
Annual Benefits to the Community
Stanford Health Care provides programmatic and philanthropic supports to expand access to care and address the social determinants of health for our most vulnerable and underserved patients and communities each year.
FY24 Investment Summary
During 2024, Stanford Health Care contributed $791M in benefits to the community; an 8% increase from the previous year.
$481,383,355
$180,917,695
$108,518,642
$6,454,724
$461,426
$4,789,842
$7,917,274
From the Archives
Community Health Needs Assessments
Implementation Strategy Reports
Community Resources Across Stanford Medicine
Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley: Community Benefits, for community partnership work in the Tri-Valley area
Stanford Children’s Health: In the Community, for community partnership work focused on children, families, and pregnant women
Stanford Cancer Institute: Community Partnership, for cancer-specific health education and community-engaged clinical trials
Stanford School of Medicine: Office of Community Engagement, for community-engaged research and other faculty supports
Stanford School of Medicine: Department of Primary Care and Population Health, Community Partnership Program
Stanford School of Medicine: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Community Partnership Program for community engagement
Stanford University Office of Community Engagement, for a broad listing of community resources across Stanford University
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