Virginia Mason conducts a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) every three years. Our CHNA drives our community work and serves as a guideline to help us achieve three basic goals:
In 2013, Virginia Mason partnered with other King County hospitals and Public Health — Seattle & King County to form Hospitals for a Healthier Community (HHC). HHC develops a shared, county-wide CHNA every three years, and is developing collaborative programs to comprehensively address community health issues.
Every community needs certain health care services that typically cost more to deliver than the provider of the services receives. These ‘subsidized health services’ are part of Virginia Mason’s mission because they are needed in the community and otherwise would not be available to meet patient needs. They include:
Improving health and quality of life extends beyond diagnosis and treatment. It also requires community health education and outreach services. Health improvement and outreach services provided by Virginia Mason include:
Virginia Mason strongly supports medical education to ensure our patients and the community benefit from advances in medical care:
As a nonprofit organization, Virginia Mason is committed to serving patients who are uninsured, underinsured or otherwise unable to pay for their medical care.
Virginia Mason provides support for medical research at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI). BRI is committed to finding causes and cures for autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis and immune system diseases such as allergies and asthma. BRI's world-renowned scientists are dedicated to predicting, preventing, treating and ultimately eliminating these lifelong, chronic diseases. BRI also oversees all clinical research at Virginia Mason supporting clinical investigators in studies across a wide variety of diseases and conditions that helps advance medicine for Virginia Mason patients and many others. Virginia Mason also assists with BRI’s support of key patient advocacy organizations that help people live with autoimmune diseases, allergies and asthma. Together, Virginia Mason and BRI work to improve people’s lives through remarkable care and exciting medical advances.
Community benefit work is accomplished through various partnerships with an array of nonprofit organizations throughout King, Kitsap and Snohomish counties, including:
Virginia Mason is committed to providing the highest quality health care while preserving the natural environment for our community — now and for future generations. This important work, which is done through our organization-wide EnviroMason program, includes:
For more information about community benefit at Virginia Mason, contact:
Doug Baxter-Jenkins
Community Integration Program Manager
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health
douglasbaxter-jenkins@chifranciscan.org
253-944-7504