Our Mission: To provide affordable or no cost quality healthcare to children who have no access to insurance or are under-insured.
Glendale Healthy Kids ensures that children have access to health care and health education.
Our Vision: A community in which every child has optimal health.
Our Core Values
• Integrity: Honesty, trustworthiness and fairness
• Caring: Commitment to valuing differences and respecting the well-being and dignity of each person
• Quality: Excellence in services provided
• Teamwork: Commitment to working together as a community to achieve our goals.
In 1993, the Glendale Memorial Hospital Foundation formed a committee to determine the health needs
of underprovided children in the community. A needs assessment revealed that uninsured children of
the working poor were particularly limited in their ability to receive preventative care. Local emergency
rooms and school nurses were providing primary care to the children who had no other access to
physicians, dentists or specialists. As a result, Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center, Verdugo
Hills Hospital, Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Glendale Unified School District, and the City of Glendale joined together and formed Glendale Healthy Kids.