Committed to our communities: Our 2024 annual report

I’m excited to share with you St. Charles' new annual report for the year 2024. Putting it together is a sizable task for several of our caregivers, and I’m appreciative of their efforts.

Last year, when we created our 2023 report, we oriented it to illustrate the profound impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our health system
— impacts that will continue to reverberate for the foreseeable future.

Even then, however, we knew that we must place renewed focus on one of our core goals: To provide the best care possible to the communities we serve. This is especially true right now, as the American health care landscape becomes more and more challenging and uncertain.

The good news: Central Oregon can count on St. Charles. For more than a century, we have been committed to the health and well-being of this region, and in 2024, that commitment blossomed into action over and over again.

Throughout the report, you’ll find facts and figures. But alongside them you’ll find story after story about the health system’s efforts to provide the best care possible by preserving, expanding and improving critical health care services within the communities we serve. From La Pine to Warm Springs, Sisters to Prineville and all points in between, we are stepping up to fill gaps in care wherever we can.

It’s pretty awesome to compile these efforts into one document and consider them all together. It fills me with enormous pride to see the collective results of our efforts to provide excellent care — for Central Oregon, in Central Oregon.

I want to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to the more than 5,000 caregivers who make St. Charles such a great place to provide and receive care. Our 2024 annual report is a celebration of them and the important and impactful work they do every day.

Thanks, as always, for your interest in our work.

Sincerely,
Steve