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Community Education and Wellness

Started videotaping and/or offering 

virtual (live) classes and now  

have most classes available in a virtual format available on our website 
and YouTube page.

Training webinars on exercise, exercise equipment use etc developed 
and promoted to community members.

Received grants to provide

 free health screenings for community 

members: Hepatitis C, Hemoglobin A1c (blood sugar test), Fecal Occult 
Blood Test (FOBT) to test for bleeding in the gastrointestinal track  
(i.e. cancers or other causes).

Received grants for car seats to distribute to those in need in our 
communities and a 

medication assistance grant for those unable to 

afford their prescription medications.

We now have five technicians fully-trained and certified in 

car seat 

installation. 

Our Traffic Safety Trailer returned to Good Shepherd and will be 
travelling throughout the Umatilla/Morrow County areas doing 

car seat 

clinics, pedestrian/traffic safety, bike rodeos and helmet education.

We now have several

 fully-trained facilitators for Living Well/Self 

Management classes including: Chronic Pain, Diabetes, Chronic 
Conditions, Balance/Fall Prevention and Tai Chi.

We now have our

 ConneXions present at Martha’s House to assist 

residents with resource access to help them obtain independence, 
housing, health coverage, food, transportation, etc. A grant was 
received for services and to help train mentors and volunteers for 
ongoing support for residents.

Our

 Community Paramedic Program is still in place, working hand-in-

hand with the ConneXions program. 

Community Benefit

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Social Determinants of Health/
Health Equity

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Access to Services

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Obesity

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Chronic Disease

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Violence

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Behavioral Health

Our Community Benefit Oversight Committee helped 
conduct the Community Health Needs Assessment 
(CHNA) in 2018, where we took an in-depth look 
at the “health” of our region. This study measured 
acute and chronic diseases, behavioral health, 
accidents, health practices, lifestyles and preventative 
measures. The study breaks the findings into various 
cohorts: age, ethnicity, sex and economic factors. 
The CHNA serves as a guide in the development of 
our Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) 
and our organization’s strategic plan that our Board 
of Trustees adopted this fiscal year. Drafts of this 
plan were discussed and revised with the advice 
of the Community Benefit Oversight Committee, 
Administrative Council, Good Shepherd Department 

1095

Number of classes, external 

and internal events/health  

fairs, wellness assessments  

and education. 

This number was despite classes 

and events stopping completely in 

March due to COVID-19 shutdown. 

A limited number of classes were 

allowed to re-start late in June 

but halted again when we were 

returned to Baseline.

57

Volunteer and 

family member 

assessments

152

Equipment 

overviews with 

employees and 

their family 

members

331

 Employee 

health and 

wellness 

assessments

8734

number of attendees/participants 

in our classes or events.

Managers and the Board of Trustees. After 
prioritization, the following key issues were chosen 
to focus our efforts on and set realistic goals over a 
three-year period:

Speech & Language Pathologist and Manager Heidii, with a patient last fall during a speech therapy session in 

our Lovin’ Spadeful Community Garden next door.