BEYOND
our primary mission
to provide affordable, quality medical
care, we believe our responsibility
to the community extends beyond
the doors of our hospital or clinics.
Grande Ronde Hospital, Inc. (GRH)
continues to use our time, talent and
treasure to benefit Union County in
other ways.
We proactively seek partnerships
with agencies and community groups
to collaborate on how we can, collec-
tively and individually, work to make
our cities healthier, safer and happier.
In 2010, we began publishing annual
reports just like this one to showcase
our efforts.
Long before it was required by
the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we
created programs and financed proj-
ects for the greater benefit of Union
County. ACA rules may have made
the process more complex and time-
consuming, but the end goal remains
the same. We have become more
deeply committed to meeting our
communities’ needs as requirements
become increasingly complicated
and labor-intensive each year. As we
have incorporated these new rules,
we have also learned a lot about our
organization and its people, about
our communities, and about the
value of our community partners.
Our most recent Community
Health Needs Assessment (Assess-
ment) was completed in May 2015,
after months of hard work by our
Community Benefit Sub-Committee
(Committee) over the winter. Two
previous Assessments (2010 and
2013) did not reveal the broad
demographic information we had
hoped for, so we were resolved to
make the 2015 Assessment the most
inclusive assessment yet.
We began by forming a Health
Needs Assessment Task Force (Task
Force) composed of 35 community
members representing 16 public,
private, government and faith-based
entities. That list is included in this
report. Modeling survey instruments
used by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, the Task
Force developed an Assessment tool
—Continued on back page
G R A N D E
R O N D E
H O S P I TA L
FY2016 Community
Benefit Report
Giving back. Paying it forward. Staying the course.