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HOSPITAL SPOTLIGHTS, CONT.
HOSPITAL SPOTLIGHTS, CONT.
Whole Health
SAMARITAN PRESENTS GRANTS TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY HEALTH
Samaritan Health Services
presented its 2016 Social
Accountability grants to a number of agencies at a luncheon
at the Boulder Falls Conference Center in Lebanon earlier
this summer.
The grants were awarded to community organizations
in Linn, Benton and Lincoln counties that will use the
grant funds to help achieve community health goals. The
recipients are determined through a selection process that
takes place at each Samaritan facility.
Samaritan Health Services CEO Larry Mullins presented the
checks and said a few words about the goals of the annual
grants.
“We traditionally have targeted health care related activities,
but health care’s taken on a much broader definition,”
Mullins said.
And he noted that a few of the organizations receiving the
grants provide an overall community
benefit instead of a more traditional
health care benefit.
For Lebanon recipients, the Boys & Girls
Club of the Greater Santiam and the
Lebanon Public Library are examples
of nonprofit organizations that aren’t
directly tied to health care services, but
provide assistance to the community.
“We believe one of the most important
things we can all do is help support
each other for the community benefit,”
Mullins said.
This year, the total amount awarded
was about $500,000, he said. That total
was split among 40 organizations. The
$500,000 is about double the amount
awarded in previous years.
Samaritan has awarded these grants
since 1997, “but this is the first time
we’ve had formally announced the
grants at an event like this,” Mullins
said.
Mullins said one reason for hosting the event was to call
individual attention to each organization.
“We think the type of work you’re doing is so critical to the
community,” Mullins said.
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Reprinted with permission from the Lebanon Express, June 25, 2016
Samaritan CEO Larry Mullins presents community grants