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PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center

370 volunteers

have donated more than

43,900 hours to

PeaceHealth St. John Medical

Center since november 2010.

On a monthly average, the

volunteers assist with about

780 discharges, more

than 1,770 directional

instructions, and 380 escorts. We have more than

20 areas of opportunity for

volunteers to provide service

and gain experience.

interested in volunteer-

ing? Contact Sue Oliver

in Volunteer Services at (360)

414-7504.

Volunteer contributions

60% 40%

Community benefits

Benefits for the broader community

•Subsidized health services: $3,644,816

•Financial and in-kind contributions to

community groups: $161,073

•Community health services: $193,474

•Community health care activities: $72,833

Subtotal: $4,072,196

89%

4% 2% 5%

Totalcommunity

benefits:$27,000,230

Benefits for those in financial need

•Medicaid (shortfall): $13,798,333

•Charity care at cost: $9,129,701

Subtotal: $22,928,034

By the numbers Payroll and benefits: $136,511,503Outpatient registrations: 194,026 emergency Department visits: 52,970Clinic visits: 187,941 Babies born: 1,137new hires: 283taxes paid: $7,656,940

PeaceHealth radiation

Oncology caregivers, Bev

eaton, Lacy King and Pam

Johanson, with family

members at the annual

Cancer Survivor’s Day picnic

at the hospital.

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Community Benefit Report 2011

Part of our community

• American Heart

Association—

Go red tea

• American red Cross—

Heroes Breakfast

• Bike to Work

• Cabaret 2010

• Candlelight vigil

(domestic violence)

• CAP (Community

Action Program)

• CASA auction

• Castle rock CAre

Coalition run/Walk

• City of Longview earth

Day; Parks ’n rec guide

• Columbia theatre

Association for the

Performing Arts

• Community Health

Partners (CHP)

• Cowlitz economic

Development Council

• Cowlitz Free Medical

Clinic

• Diabetes expo

• emergency Support

Shelter breakfast

• ethnic Support

Council–international

Festival

• Family House Academy

• Foundation for Private

enterprise education—

Healthcare Week

• Go Fourth Festival—

Cardboard Boat regatta

• Harvest Classic

• Hispanic Health Fair

• Humane Society

Dinner/Auction

• Justice and Hope

Conference

• Kelso Highlander Festival

• Kelso-Longview

Chamber of Commerce

Kelso tree Lighting

Festival

• Leadership Academy

• Life Works—Jeans &

Jewels; Lose the train-

ing Wheels program

• Local school and youth

sports programs

• Longview Junior

Service League–

Festival of trees

• Longview Police

Department Bike

rodeo

• Longview Stageworks

• Lower Columbia

College Foundation—

Chili Cook-off

• Lower Columbia

College Head Start–

ABCD Program

• March for Babies

(March of Dimes)

• Mental Health run/walk

• Mountain Mania run/

walk

• newspapers in

education

• north County

recreation Assoc.

Bike Park

• Pathways 2020

• Pne Golf tournament

(Habitat for Humanity)

• relay for Life—American

Cancer Society

• St. Mary’s Parish

• St. rose Parish and

School

• Southwest Washington

Symphony

• thunder Mountain

rodeo

• tour de Blast

• United Way Day of

Caring

• Women’s Affaire

• Year-to-Year run/Walk

• YMCA

Some of the community organizations and activities PeaceHealth supports:

Bovine Divas Janet ritchie, Denise

reel and Michelle randall catch,

control and clothe a reluctant

calf at the thunder Mountain Pro

rodeo’s calf-dressing competition.

they and Clown Posse, (Saydra

Goodrum, emily Carlson and

Michelle Brandhorst), represented

PeaceHealth at the competition.

PeaceHealth

caregivers gear up

for decontamination

of hazardous

materials during

annual drills.

PeaceHealth’s Knights

of St. John were back

in action again at the

Kelso Highlander

Festival games.

PeaceHealth caregivers

at one of two

residential resource’s

homes where they did

yard work during the

United Way Day of

Caring.

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Awards and recognition

Friends of St. John contributions:

Community Benefit Report 2011

• For the fifth year in a row, Cleverly and Associates, an

independent research firm, has ranked PeaceHealth St.

John a top 100 hospital for offering quality care while

keeping costs low.

• PeaceHealth Lower Columbia Cancer Center earned

the highest possible scores from the Commission on

Cancer (CoC), receiving a three-year accreditation with

commendation through the CoC.

• PeaceHealth Breast Center Accreditation through

national Accreditation Program for Breast Centers

(nAPBC); Accreditation with commendation from the

Commission on Cancer of the American College of

Surgeons

• regence Palliative Care implementation Grant

• PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center has a gold seal of

approval from the Joint Commission for quality.

in addition, these PeaceHealth St. John caregivers were

recognized:

• 56 caregivers from PeaceHealth St. John who volunteered

958 hours at the Cowlitz Free Clinic in a 12-month period:

Community Advocate awards.

• robert Hepner, Security Manager, and Jeane Conrad,

Facilities Project Manager: “Citizen Service” award from

the Longview Police Department for coordinated training

opportunities and continued support and partnership.

• Marilyn Davis, Health improvement Division Director:

recognition for her contribution to the it review Project

to make the County’s information technology (it) more

efficient by Cowlitz County Commissioners.

• Peggy Malone, Mn, rn, CCrn: Gannett education

nursing excellence Awards Mountain West, finalist in

the teaching/Mentoring category 2011.

• Heather Schoonover, Mn, rn, PHnCS-BC: Sigma theta

tau excellence in nursing Management 2011 and the

northwest Organization of nurse executives Authentic

Leadership Award 2011.

the heart fund: $3,000

Sponsor for the Go red tea: $2,000

Underwriter for the Golf tournament: $1,000

Document reader for Health information Management: $20,000

the Joint replacement Center: $110,802

tOtAL Friends gifts last fiscal year to PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center: $133,802

PeaceHealth St. John teamed up with Lowe’s to create the

first place entry “Wiki Wiki emua” in the Fourth of July

cardboard boat regatta.

PeaceHealth caregivers Jan Hiatt, Kelly Derosier

and ruth Melvin don pink aprons for Life Works

“Jeans & Jewels–Vegas” fundraiser.

PeaceHealth St. John emer-

gency Department nurse

Sara reid was named

March of Dimes nurse of

the Year in December 2011

for her work in the category

Advocacy for Patients. Sara earned

the award for her excellent work with

victims of sexual assault.

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