Mendocino Coast Healthcare Foundation

09/10/2025

The MCHF celebrates our healthcare workers! We recently unveiled an Alleyway Mural on the side of our office garage between Oak and Alder Streets painted by Artist Ryan Grossman. Drive by and enjoy it!

09/08/2025

The MCHF recently purchased AED (Automated External Defibrillator) devices for all patrol vehicles in the Fort Bragg Police Department. Rapid AED use delivers a life-saving electrical shock to the heart when it stops or goes into a chaotic rhythm, restoring a normal heartbeat. With survival rates dropping by 7-10% for each minute of delay, prompt defibrillation, ideally within 3-5 minutes, is the only way to convert these life-threatening rhythms, increasing the chances of survival significantly. Fort Bragg police are often the first responders, and now they will have these life-saving tools in their vehicles.

The Mendocino Coast Healthcare Foundation supports organizations that care for the health and wellness of our community.

09/04/2025

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Winesong and support local healthcare on the coast--this Friday and Saturday winesong.org

09/04/2025

Exciting news from the Mendocino College, which is launching a new Social Work & Human Services cohort this Fall. For more information on HIUS 152 and related courses see

Mendocino College’s Human Services programs prepare students to become Social and Human Services paraprofessionals, and to transfer to four-year universities to become professional counselors, social workers, or similar behavioral health providers.

10/25/2024

Our MCHF President Terry Ramos presents a check to Amanda Friscia, Executive Director of the Fort Bragg Food Bank, whose organization assisted at our Winesong fundraiser last month. The Winesong Live Auction contained a Lot dedicated to the Food Bank, and that auction Lot raised $5,000 for the Food Bank in less than five minutes! Our health and wellness Foundation is pleased to be able to support the Fort Bragg Food Bank in 2024 (https://www.fortbraggfoodbank.org/).

10/24/2024

Wellness for you and your family means taking steps to be well physically, socially, mentally, and emotionally. The action of practicing wellness means that you are able to prioritize you and your family's well-being with strategies fitting your lifestyle and keeping health at the forefront. Often, wellness activities for physical wellness also builds social, mental and emotional wellness. Check out these tips https://www.nih.gov/health-information/emotional-wellness-toolkit

10/23/2024

It's that time of the year! Flu season is now upon us, and it's time to get vaccinated. Make an appointment to stop by your local pharmacy or health clinic and receive your 2024 annual Flu shot and your latest Covid-19 booster. As the weather turns colder and wetter, more people gather in indoor settings, allowing for these viruses to spread. HELP STOP THE SPREAD! Get vaccinated today and stay home when ill. More info: https://www.vaccines.gov/en/

10/22/2024

Our MCHF Vice-President Charlene McAllister presents a check for $81,400 to Lucresha Renteria, Executive Director of Mendocino Coast Clinics (MCC). MCHF's lovely fundraiser event, Winesong, raised these funds on behalf of MCC last month--these funds support state-of-the-art telemedicine services for coastal residents. The Foundation was pleased to be able to support MCC in 2024 through the generosity of our auction participants (https://mendocinocoastclinics.org/). Additional funds were also raised for the Fort Bragg Food Bank at our annual event, as well as ongoing MCHF programs providing nursing scholarship, direct patient cancer care financial support, and other community health and wellness services provided by our Foundation.

09/30/2024

Come meet the candidates for the Mendocino Coast Health Care District board on Wednesday October 2 at 6:00 PM. The event will be at the Fort Bragg Town Hall and is hosted bt the League of Women Voters.

09/04/2024

A traditional medical providers symposium will be held at Fort Bragg Town Hall (363 N. Main Street) this upcoming First Friday, September 6, 6:00-7:30 pm.

Hosted by Mendocino Coast Health Care District’s Board Vice Chair Paul Katzeff, presenters Jude Thilman, Ui Wesley, Dr. Richard Miller and Gabriel Maroney will discuss their practices.

The meeting will be simulcast via zoom.

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08/26/2024

MCHF was the recipient of native trees including elderberries and red alder planted by Conservation Works this past Saturday on our Main Street campus. Thanks to the California Climate Action Corps Fellows who are hosted by Conservation Works and who organized the planting day as part of Branch Out Fort Bragg! Thanks too for community volunteers who helped. ,

40 Years of supporting organizations that care for the health & wellness of our community since 1984!

06/26/2024

We often hear the word “wellness.” But what exactly does it mean? Wellness is a holistic integration of physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, fueling the body, engaging the mind, and nurturing the spirit. Certainly wellness includes always striving for health, but it’s more about living life fully for each individual based on his, her, or their choices given each person’s potentials and circumstances. Wellness also means we must steward our body and mind with sufficient self-care. We will all have our own priorities, approaches, and aspirations, including our own views of what it means to live life fully.