What We Fund

The WSMA Foundation for Health Care Improvement envisions a future where physicians are healthy and fulfilled, working as partners with care teams and patients to provide equitable, high-quality care for all Washingtonians.

Texas Children’s Hospital, a nonprofit founded in 1954 and consistently ranked among the top children’s hospitals nationally, is dedicated to providing exceptional care to all children regardless of their families’ financial status. Serving over 5 million patients annually, the hospital excels in patient care, education, and research.

Methodist Health System is a 130+ year old integrated health network with 4 hospitals, 30+ clinics, and 1,175 providers serving Nebraska and western Iowa. Their mission centers on physician-led, patient-centered care guided by five core values: patient-centered care, respect/integrity, excellence, teamwork, and community service.

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Foundation, founded in 1947, serves as the philanthropic arm of AAFP, which represents 128,300+ family physicians (87% in direct patient care)

Federation of State Physician Health Programs’s (FSPHP) mission is to support PHPs in improving the health of medical professionals, thereby contributing to quality patient care. Its vision is a society of highly effective PHPs advancing the health of the medical community and the patients they serve. Established to unify PHPs across the U.S., FSPHP empowers PHPs through best practices, accountability, and advocacy, promoting them as confidential, therapeutic alternatives to discipline. It fosters collaboration among PHPs, regulatory boards, and the medical community while advancing education, research, and leadership development

The University of Southern California (USC) is a leading private research university in Los Angeles with 17 schools. USC’s Keck School of Medicine (KSOM) aims to improve health, prevent disease, and advance biomedical research. Located in East Los Angeles, KSOM serves a large Latino community and specializes in cancer, stem cell medicine, orthopedics, and sports medicine. It is home to over 1,200 faculty, 1,800 staff, and 1,200 students, with nationally recognized research programs in cancer, genomics, preventive medicine, and more.

UMass Chan Medical School, the state’s only public medical school, excels in medical education, research, and healthcare innovation. The UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science supports clinical research, integrating data with electronic medical records. Its Program in Digital Medicine develops and implements health technologies in collaboration with UMass Memorial Health. UMass Chan also houses the Health AI Assurance Laboratory, leading efforts to ensure AI in healthcare is safe and effective, making it the first initiative of its kind in Massachusetts.

“Mississippi State Medical Association Foundation, along with the Mississippi State Medical Association, seeks to prepare leaders who can rise to the challenges of the complex issues facing medical organizations by helping them to understand themselves, appreciate the differences in others, build relationships, develop and work with teams. This in-depth program provides training in core aptitudes such as communications, marketing, public speaking an advocacy in order to excel as future leaders not only in their practices but also in organized medicine. MSMA Physician Leadership Academy supports the goal of MSMA to advance its leadership efforts.

“The Medical Society of Northern Virginia Foundation (MSNVAF) is the charitable arm of the Medical Society of Northern Virginia (MSNVA). The MSNVA service area encompasses four contiguous counties in Northern Virginia, including, Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William Counties and several independent municipalities within those county borders. The MSNVAF operates and manages several programs, including a scholarship fund for fourth year medical students, a volunteer specialty care program for local safety net clinic patients, a preceptorship with George Mason University and a physician wellness program. The MSNVA has a long history with the service area community, since its inception, collaborating with other non-profit social organizations, hospitals and county health departments. In the past the MSNVAF also developed and managed a telemedicine solution, a program that collected PPE for health care workers, as well as a health information exchange for community physicians.