Southwest takes pride in helping everyone in our communities. The following information is collected and reported to the Washington State Hospital Association about the services and benefits that we give back to the people of Clark County:

2004: $43,021,419
2005: $56,160,739
2006: $61,160,781

2006 Community Benefits Report
Community Services: $4,383,940
Donations and in-kind gifts: $636,914
Education and outreach: $1,480,455
Health professionals education*: $1,930,018
Medical research activities: $336,553

Uncompensated care**: $28,222,757
Charity care: $14,313,645
Medicaid shortfalls: $13,909,112
Bad debt***: $28,554,084

*Includes scholarships, funding for nursing programs, library services and continuing education for community and hospital health professionals.
**Uncompensated care is provided for patients who are uninsured or underinsured and could not afford their care.
***Bad debt refers to services for which Southwest never received payment. This also includes people who didn't meet eligibility for government coverage.

As a not-for-profit institution, Southwest Washington Medical Center is accountable to the people we serve. There is no private gain. We're governed by community leaders who volunteer their time. This spirit of helping our neighbors harkens back 150 years to our heritage of Mother Joseph:

'Permit me to recommend to you the care of the poor both in our institutions and outside them…Do not say: ah! This does not concern me, let others attend to them. My Sisters, whatever concerns the poor is always our affair."

--Mother Joseph's last words to the Sisters at her bedside,
January 8, 1902