ADVENTIST HEALTH HOWARD MEMORIAL
1. Community Benefit Plan
Click on the button below to download the community benefit plan.
The documents are being made available as provided by the facility, in accordance with Health and safety Code 127350 and California Code of Regulations Section 95102. If there are any issues with accessibility, please notify us directly at communitybenefit@hcai.ca.gov
Download2. Community Health Needs Assessment
The web address where the Community Benefit Plan is published on the hospital's website:
https://www.adventisthealth.org/howard-memorial/about-us/community-benefit/
The year the hospital last conducted a Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA):
2025
What community groups attended or engaged with the most recent CHNA process? Identify the vulnerable populations represented by these:
Community Groups: • Anderson Valley Community Members • Building Bridges/RCS • Consolidated Tribal Health Project • Leadership Mendocino • Mendocino Community Health Clinic, Inc. • North Coast Opportunities • Mendocino Presbyterian Church • Round Valley Leadership • Fort Bragg First Responders • Mendocino Public Health • Mendocino County Administration • Mendocino Sheriff’s Office • Round Valley Indian Health Center Represented Populations: Agricultural workers • Healthcare consumer • Human services • Labor or workforce reps • Law enforcement • Low-income • Medically underserved • Older adults • Unhoused populations • Individual Tribal healthcare consumers from the following Mendocino County Tribes: Cahto Tribe of the Laytonville Rancheria, Hopland Band of Pomo Indians, Redwood Valley Little River of Pomo Indians of the Redwood Valley Rancheria, Round Valley Indian Tribes and Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians • Substance use disorder
Does the Hospital make the CHNA report widely available to the public?
Yes
How the hospital made the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) available to the public:
Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA), Community Health Implementation Strategies (CHIS), and Community Health Plan Updates are readily accessible to the public by posting these reports on the hospital's website and the Adventist Health website.
The web address where the CHNA is publicly accessible:
https://www.adventisthealth.org/about-us/community-benefit/reports-by-community-served/
3. Community Benefit Expenses
| Vulnerable Population | |
|---|---|
| Traditional Charity Care | $ 629,650 |
| Medi-Cal | $ 6,184,101 |
| Other Means-Tested Government (Indigent Care) | $ 0 |
| Sum Financial Assistance and Means-Tested Government Programs | $ 6,813,751 |
| Vulnerable Population | Broader Community | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Health Improvement | $ 154,859 | $ 250,588 | $ 405,447 |
| Community Benefit Operations | $ 0 | $ 0 | $ 0 |
| Health Professions Education | $ 0 | $ 0 | $ 0 |
| Subsidized Health Services | $ 0 | $ 3,975,718 | $ 3,975,718 |
| Research | $ 0 | $ 0 | $ 0 |
| Cash and In-kind Contributions for Community Benefits | $ 0 | $ 0 | $ 0 |
| Other Community Benefits | $ 0 | $ 387,650 | $ 387,650 |
| Total Other Benefits | $ 154,859 | $ 4,613,956 | $ 4,768,815 |
| Vulnerable Population | Broader Community | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Community Benefits* | $ 6,968,610 | $ 4,613,956 | $ 11,582,566 |
| Medicare | $ 0 | $ 0 | |
| Total Community Benefits with Medicare | $ 6,968,610 | $ 4,613,956 | $ 11,582,566 |
*Aggregate from tables above.
Other relevant information to the hospital's community benefit plan not otherwise captured:
See attached report Community Benefit Operations is included in Community Health Improvement Services as formatted in accordance with Schedule H 990 reporting.