Humboldt Health Foundation - Humboldt Area Foundation Donate Now Humboldt Health Foundation The primary mission of the Humboldt Health Foundation is to support the Humboldt Area Foundation a community foundation by improving the health and wellbeing of the residents and communities of Humboldt County and of other communities in Northern California while also improving services to the people of Humboldt County. Our History In Humboldt County in the 1900s workers who were injured on the job found the costs of care at local private hospitals financially devastating. By 1906 the newly unionized timber and mill workers of Eureka decided to start a hospital of their own The Union Labor Hospital a nonprofit organization which began in 1908 and later became General Hospital. In 1997 the Union Labor Hospital Association sold the hospital and established the Union Labor Health Foundation which has since awarded 4.