Smyth County Community Foundation
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​The Smyth County Community Foundation was incorporated on October 1, 1998, to

support Smyth County Community Hospital and to improve the health of Smyth County

residents.  In 1999, when Carilion Health System acquired a one-half interest in the

hospital, funds from the sale were transferred to the Foundation.  That same year, the

Foundation was issued a bond to establish the Lifetime Wellness Center, which was

constructed on Radio Hill Road in Marion.

 
In 2005, the Foundation re-acquired the interest of Carilion Health System in the

hospital, and soon thereafter Mountain States Health Alliance acquired a majority

interest in the hospital.  Contemporaneous with that new affiliation in 2006, the Smyth

County Community Foundation was reorganized.  Now guided by the general purpose to

support Smyth County Community Hospital and its mission, the Smyth County

Community Foundation is a Virginia non-stock, non-member corporation, recognized

under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code as exempt from federal income

taxation.  The Foundation is governed by a fifteen-member board of directors and is

served by an executive director who is also the director of the Lifetime Wellness Center.

 
The Foundation continues to own a minority interest in Smyth County Community

​Hospital, owns and operates the Lifetime Wellness Center in Marion, operates a

new satellite campus of the Wellness Center located in Saltville, Virginia, and owns an

18-hole championship golf course in Marion.


As funds allow, the Foundation awards local grant requests, supporting select initiatives

​that promote health and wellness in the community, which most notably have included

the signature leadership investment that helped establish the School of Health Sciences

​of Emory & Henry College in Marion, Virginia.
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