The ephrata community health foundation is a community-based, NON-profit organization formed to support the ephrata community hospital's mission of assuring that the community of northern and eastern lancaster county, pennsylvania has access to exceptional health care services that are high in quality, compassionate and cost effective.the objectives of the foundation will be achieved by making distributions to the hospital for carrying out the mission of the hospital, including but not limited to:1)furthering the enhancement of the hospital's ability to expand health services in our community;2)funding the purchase of new clinical and support-related technologies and the construction of health care facilities;3)extending charitable health care to qualifying individuals; AND4)addressing health priorities, including obesity and smoking and tobacco use in our community.