Community Benefit
The Community Benefit Department of St. Joseph and Redwood Memorial Hospital
Hospitals sponsors, develops, manages and sustains Healthy Community initiatives
for the vulnerable populations of Humboldt County. Working in partnership
with citizens, public and private agencies and organizations, we better
focus our resources upon the most critical needs. Partnering with others
enables us to better address these needs. The Community Benefit Committee,
a subcommittee of the Board of Trustees, reviews the activities of the
department to assure the response to community need is appropriate.
The Community Benefit Committee oversees the Community Health Needs Assessment
(CHNA) process every three years, using the information obtained in the
assessment to set the goals and outcomes for the yearly Community Benefit
Plan. The Plan is forwarded to the State of California as one tool to
show our commitment as a non-profit organization to the community we serve.
Your feedback is important to us. Please comment on our
FY17 CHNA and FY15-FY17 Implementation Strategy Reports by emailing
Martha.Shanahan@stjoe.org.
St. Joseph Health System
We are excited to share with you the
2016 SJH Community Partnerships Annual Report:
Serving the Dear Neighbor, A Legacy of Caring. This report describes some of the many ways St. Joseph Health seeks to
improve the wellbeing of our communities, not only through care for the
poor and traditional charity care, but through grant initiatives from
the SJH Community Partnerships Fund that support nonprofit organizations
working for the common good. 2016 also marks the 30th anniversary of the Community Partnerships Fund, which has provided more
than $216.5 million in grant funding since its inception in 1986.
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here to learn more.
Many of the community benefit activities and programs sponsored by SJH
Humboldt County are housed in the Community Benefit Department. These
include the
Community Resource Centers (Rio Dell, Blue Lake, Eureka, Loleta and Willow Creek),
Paso a Paso (Step by Step),
Healthy Kids Humboldt,
Care Transitions and the
Evergreen Lodge.
Extending a Ministry of Hope
The mission of the Sisters has always been to respond to the needs of the
community, serving in a variety of ways: educating the young, caring for
the sick and poor, ministering to the dying, and advocating to ensure
a just and fair society for all. Today, SJH is privileged to carry forth
the healing ministry of the Sisters and to extend the concern that they
have always shown for people living within their communities.
In addition to offering the finest quality health care, all SJH entities
dedicate resources to improve the health and quality of life for the communities
it serves, with special emphasis on the needs of the economically poor
and underserved.
Each year St. Joseph Hospital allocates 10% of its net income (net unrealized
gains and losses) to the St. Joseph Health Community Partnership Fund.
(See Figure 1). 7.5% of the contributions are used to support local hospital
Care for the Poor programs. 1.75% is used to support SJH Community Partnership
Fund grant initiatives. The remaining .75% is designated toward reserves,
which helps ensure the Fund's ability to sustain programs into the
future that assist low-income and underserved populations.
Furthermore, St. Joseph Hospital will endorse local non-profit organization
partners to apply for funding through the
St. Joseph Health Community Partnership Fund. Local non-profits that receive funding provide specific services and
resources to meet the identified needs of underserved communities throughout
St. Joseph Health hospitals' service areas.
Despite financial challenges that continue to face rural hospitals today,
the Sisters remain committed to their mission of continually improving
the health and quality of life of the people in the communities they serve
and to seeing it carried out in Humboldt County.