Creating a healthier community.

Together.

A Healthier Community Starts Here

At Healthy Petaluma, we are advocates for the health and well-being of everyone in southern Sonoma County. We're dedicated to improving the health of our community through program funding, targeted initiatives, direct services, and our extensive relationships with other organizations. We work with Petaluma Valley Hospital’s operator to ensure continued local access to acute and emergency health care services.

Healthy Petaluma is here to serve all members of our diverse community. We’re always looking for innovative ways to use our influence, expertise, and resources to improve the lives of everyone in southern Sonoma County. We have a long history of ensuring local access to hospital services, supporting nonprofits, community organizations, schools, and health programs in a variety of ways, including funding, program management, facilitation, and backbone support.

Creating a healthier community.

Together.

A Healthier Community Starts Here

At Healthy Petaluma, we are advocates for the health and well-being of everyone in southern Sonoma County. We're dedicated to improving the health of our community through program funding, targeted initiatives, direct services, and our extensive relationships with other organizations. We work with Petaluma Valley Hospital’s operator to ensure continued local access to acute and emergency health care services.

Healthy Petaluma is here to serve all members of our diverse community. We’re always looking for innovative ways to use our influence, expertise, and resources to improve the lives of everyone in southern Sonoma County. We have a long history of ensuring local access to hospital services, supporting nonprofits, community organizations, schools, and health programs in a variety of ways, including funding, program management, facilitation, and backbone support.

Who We Are

Healthy Petaluma is working to make southern Sonoma County a place where everyone has access to equitable health and wellness services. As a community-owned and -operated public agency, we've been dedicated to ensuring Petaluma has access to a quality acute care hospital with emergency services and fostering a healthier community for over 75 years.

What We Do

Healthy Petaluma is here for you. We’re here to listen to the people and organizations of southern Sonoma County to identify the community's health and wellness needs, so we can foster more equitable access to health and wellness services. We’re here to bring community partners together to take action – whether it be developing policies, providing a new service, or working for changes that will improve the overall health of our community.  We work with Petaluma Valley Hospital operator to seek compliance with its obligations under the hospital Asset Purchase Agreement.

Dedicated to Improving
Health & Well-being for All

Everyone deserves access to health care and resources that improve their well-being. Through our programs, services, funding, and partnerships, Healthy Petaluma is working to foster a healthier community for all. This means identifying the needs of our community, facilitating long-term solutions and partnerships, and advocating for health equity for everyone in southern Sonoma County. Healthy Petaluma is here for you.

Blue Zones PrOJECT

We have launched the local Blue Zones Project Petaluma as part of a global movement that has improved health and well-being for entire communities and cities. This new way of thinking and working will enhance the places we live, work, learn, and play.

CHIPA

Bringing together residents, businesses, and local organizations to address key community health priorities. 

HealthQuest CPR

HealthQuest CPR is your one-stop shop for all your training and AED needs.  As an authorized American Heart Association training center, HealthQuest CPR provides CPR, AED, and First Aid training and certification along with selling and distributing AEDs, replacement parts and maintenance plans for existing or new AEDs within your organization.

HeartSafe Community

HeartSafe Community is a program led by Healthy Petaluma to strengthen our community’s response to cardiac emergencies. HeartSafe Community helps businesses, schools, and other organizations become prepared to respond to cardiac emergencies.  

Community Health Worker Program

Healthy Petaluma’s CHWs directly engage with southern Sonoma County community members to address the needs of people who are at greater risk for poor health outcomes through health education, messaging, and resource navigation. 

Resources

Our work is guided by the latest professional assessments of community health needs in our area. Check out our resources to learn more about the state of community health in the Petaluma area and beyond.

  • Petaluma Valley Hospital

    Petaluma Valley Hospital was sold to NorCal HealthConnect, a secular subsidiary of Providence, on January 1, 2021. The viability of our community hospital and its service to our community is our number one priority with the sale. While Providence announced the closure of the Family Birthing Center, effective May 1, 2023, we have been actively working with Providence to reopen the unit, which is contractually obliged to remain open for a minimum of 5 years.

  • Youth and Young Adult Heart Screening

    Healthy Petaluma, in partnership with Kyle J. Taylor Foundation, Santa Rosa City Schools District, and the County of Sonoma will be offering a heart screening Free to all Sonoma County residents aged 12-25 and is designed to detect undiagnosed heart defects that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest and death. The event on Sunday, February 23, 2025, will be held at the Elsie Allen High School campus in Santa Rosa.

    Pre-Registration is Required

    To register for the 2025 Heart Screening Event or to read about our successful 2022 heart screening event click “Read More” below.

  • Petaluma Valley Hospital

    Petaluma Valley Hospital was sold to NorCal HealthConnect, a secular subsidiary of Providence, on January 1, 2021. The viability of our hospital and its service to our community is our number one priority with the sale. While Providence announced the closure of the Family Birthing Center, effective May 1, we are actively working to preserve this critical unit, which is contractually obligated to remain open through 2025.

  • Youth heart screening

    Healthy Petaluma, in partnership with the County of Sonoma, the Via Heart Project, and Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC), presented a free youth and young adult heart screening event designed to detect undiagnosed heart defects that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest and death. This free event took place Sunday, February 27, 2022 at SRJC’s Petaluma campus and was open to all Sonoma and Marin County residents ages 12-25.

  • Sober Circle

    One of CHIPA’s most noteworthy successes has been the development of Sober Circle, a collaboration between the Petaluma Police Department, Petaluma Valley Hospital, Providence St. Joseph Health, Committee on the Shelterless, Sonoma County Mental Health Services, Drug Abuse Alternatives Center, Partnership Health Plan of California and the Petaluma Health Center.

Request for Proposals

DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHY PETALUMA DISTRICT & FOUNDATION-OWNED PROPERTY

The Healthy Petaluma District and Foundation is seeking development proposals from qualified firms for the opportunity to develop District-owned property at the northwest corner of McDowell Boulevard and Lynch Creek Way in Petaluma, CA.

2024 General Election


Healthy Petaluma transitioned from an at-large election system, where directors are elected by voters of the entire District, to a by zone election process, consisting of five zones, commending with the November 2024 elections.

How to Get Involved

As a public agency, we encourage our community to get involved in our work and there are many opportunities to do so. Attend a Healthy Petaluma Board meeting, which dedicates time for public comments to ensure the voices of our community are heard.  Join CHIPA, a cross sector collaborative focused on addressing specific community health priorities. Become engaged in our Blue Zones Transformational project. Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed on Healthy Petaluma’s current and future work.

Upcoming Events

Partners

Healthy Petaluma works with city and county services, schools, nonprofits, and community organizations to identify and address the barriers to health and well-being in southern Sonoma County. Our deep relationships with our community partners not only ensure that we're connected to the evolving needs of everyone in our community but also give us a large pool of resources to tap to create solutions.