Our 2025 Annual Report

I'm proud to share with you St. Charles' 2025 Annual Report, which we've just published on our website.

This important document is intended to summarize our health system's operational performance, financial status and community impact in a given year. It's packed with statistics, stories and photos that provide a snapshot of St. Charles in 2025.

You'll find a high-level look at the care we provided last year, from births and patient discharges to surgeries, emergency room visits and clinic volumes. Spoiler alert: The numbers are up - a reflection of our growing community.

You'll also find an overview of our financial performance, which was solid considering the many challenges facing the health care industry, plus a story on St. Charles' substantial economic impact on Central Oregon.

There is some information about our Community Benefit team's good work, as well as a bit about St. Charles Foundation's fundraising efforts, which more than doubled over 2024. When you see the link to the Foundation's annual Gratitude Report, please click it and check out all the great things happening thanks to the generosity of Foundation donors.

One recurring theme that runs through our 2025 Annual Report is how our commitment to the concept of sustainable growth guides our decisions and actions at St. Charles. Despite the pressures we are facing from many different directions, we are committed to growing sustainably because we believe that's the only way we can meet our obligation to provide for the health care needs of our growing region, both now and in the years to come. We see other hospitals and health systems contracting in the face of these pressures, and we are facing them with a different mindset - growing sustainably by remaining strong financially, expanding thoughtfully, adapting to changing conditions, and prioritizing reinvestment in our people, facilities and services.

There's a long history of sustainable growth at St. Charles, stretching from our early days in downtown Bend to our relocation to our current campus on Neff Road 50 years ago and our continued growth into Madras, Prineville, Redmond, La Pine and Sisters. Through it all, Central Oregon has been able to count on its local, nonprofit health system, and that local, nonprofit health system has been able to count on the community's support, over and over again. That's a relationship we treasure, and one we look forward to continuing.

Thanks, as always, for reading and for your interest in St. Charles.

Sincerely,
Steve