Natividad Foundation provides the program resources Natividad needs to enhance its health care services. Physicians and medical professionals have the equipment and resources to provide high-quality care for every patient. Innovative and effective programs for the vulnerable and at-risk improve the health and well-being of our entire community.
Doctors and nurses request resources from the Patient Greatest Needs Fund when their patients are ready to move forward with healing, but don’t have the basic resources to make a successful transition. Donors contribute to basic necessities such as medications, transportation, shelter and other resources they need to transition back to independence. These one-time gifts to patients in need help them leave the hospital and move forward with their lives. Read more
Monterey County has the highest rates of youth homicide in the state. Our doctors and donors see a once-in-a-lifetime chance to interrupt this cycle with the CHOICE program when victims receive treatment at Natividad’s Trauma Center. Our 3-year re-injury rate for victims of violence participating in CHOICE is 1%, compared with the 5-year national average of 44%. Read more
Natividad has outstanding trauma and acute care — we take care to make sure fewer people need it. The Foundation supports prevention as the best medicine. Trauma and Disease Education and Prevention programs bring health professionals out of the hospital and clinics and in to the lives of the community to provide the education and resources people need to stay healthy. Read more
A healthful community begins with its youngest citizens, and Natividad Foundation ensures the highest quality care for its most vulnerable. Donations from the Foundation are directed toward ensuring state-of-the-art equipment for babies admitted — technology that improves care while offering a more calming environment to speed healing. Read more
Our funders established The Onyx Fund for Women when Natividad physicians shared their concern that a growing number of women couldn’t afford basic surgeries to heal chronic gynecologic conditions. The Fund was inspired by Onix, a woman who put her family’s financial needs before her own health for years. Read more
Together with our donors and community partners, we’re helping low-income women receive cancer care, transportation, meals, medication and medical treatment. Read more
Natividad provides essential services, and we build on that foundation with enhancements in technology and medical equipment to speed better health outcomes. Through active partnerships with Natividad’s physicians and nurses, the Foundation identifies critical technology resources that will make the biggest difference in saving, preserving and improving the lives of patients. Read more
The Foundation funds Natividad’s nondenominational spiritual care. Hospital Chaplains are here to help patients and their families who are experiencing concern, anxiety, stress, sudden loss, or difficulties dealing with prolonged illness. Our Chaplains are standing by to comfort, to listen, to pray, and to talk. Read more
Natividad’s Acute Rehabilitation Center is designed to assist patients and their families with the physical, occupational and speech therapy needed to safely return home. Read more
Donors, patients and artists come together to encourage healing through Natividad Foundation’s Art of Better Health program. Donors and local artists transformed what could have been a generic hospital setting into one that welcomes the community by celebrating the people, the culture and the spirit of our community. Read more
For more than a decade, Natividad Medical Foundation and Natividad have together created programs to provide spiritual care, bereavement support, pediatric palliative care and adult palliative care at Natividad to transform health care — in all phases of life — into healing for patients and their families. Read more