WHAT: ChristianaCare is announcing the 25 recipients of a $1.6 million investment through its Community Investment Fund from 1-3 p.m. on Feb. 6, 2025 at the Ministry of Caring in Wilmington. The recipients are local nonprofits working to advance health and well-being across Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Speakers include:
• Bettina Tweardy Riveros, chief health equity officer at ChristianaCare.
• YMCA of Delaware.
• DE Center for Horticulture.
• The Resurrection Center.

WHEN: February 6, 1-3 p.m.

WHERE: Ministry of Caring’s Francis X. Norton Center, 917 N. Madison Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

Since 2019, ChristianaCare’s Community Investment Fund has provided more than $5.6 million to 64 organizations, addressing social, behavioral and environmental health factors shaping community health.

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About ChristianaCare

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, ChristianaCare is one of the country’s most dynamic health care organizations, centered on improving health outcomes, and innovating to make high-quality care more accessible, equitable and affordable. ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services, home health care, urgent care centers, three hospitals (1,430 beds), a freestanding emergency department, a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care, cancer care and women’s health. It also includes the pioneering Gene Editing Institute.

ChristianaCare is nationally recognized as a great place to work, rated by Forbes as one of the nation’s best employers for diversity and inclusion. ChristianaCare is rated by Newsweek as one of the World’s Best Hospitals and is continually ranked among the best in the U.S. in national quality and safety ratings. ChristianaCare is a nonprofit teaching health system with more than 260 residents and fellows. With its groundbreaking Center for Virtual Health and a focus on population health and value-based care, ChristianaCare is shaping the future of health care.

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