Speare Memorial Hospital is committed to providing excellent healthcare for our community everyday; with an overall objective of ensuring that our community achieves optimal health.  As such, Speare has been our community’s health resource for many generations, not only providing care when individuals are injured or ill, but also helping our community manage their health with health education, prevention and wellness, screenings and primary care.  BUT achieving optimal health takes the efforts of many organizations all working together toward a common vision.  To best achieve our vision of optimal health for our community, Speare created the SMH Community Health Grant Program.

The SMH Community Health Grant Program was established to provide funding to organizations to help accomplish significant results in improving the health of the citizens in the region we serve. Speare’s service area includes the towns of Alexandria, Ashland, Bridgewater, Bristol, Campton, Ellsworth, Groton, Hebron, Holderness, Lincoln, Plymouth, Rumney, Thornton, Warren, Waterville Valley, Wentworth and Woodstock.

Each year the SMH Board of Directors will approve a pool of funds available to support community health initiatives.  Grant requests will be solicited from eligible entities for program activities and initiatives that address a community health need as identified in the Central NH Health Partnership Community Needs Assessment.  Grant requests must be for a minimum of $2,000.  Grant awards will be dependent upon the size of the pool and the number of approved grant applications received.  No applicant is assured of grant funding for any given year or from one year to the next.