Our Commitment & Mission
The Parkview Health mission centers on one essential commitment: improving the health of the communities we serve. As a not-for-profit organization, Parkview reinvests its resources into services and programs that directly impact the health and well-being of people of all ages.
The Community Health Improvement Program helps accomplish this mission. Parkview’s Community Health Improvement Program was established in 1998 as a means of giving something back to the communities we serve.
What is a community benefit
Community benefit describes Parkview programs or activities that provide treatment or promote health and healing as a response to identified community needs. Community benefit is also the term used as the basis of our tax-exempt, not-for-profit status.
A community benefit must respond to an identified community need and meet at least one of the following criteria:
- Improve access to healthcare services
- Enhance health of the community
- Advance medical or health knowledge
- Relieve or reduce the burden of government or other community efforts
Community benefit activities may include:
- Community health improvement services
- Health professions education
- Subsidized health services
- Research
- Cash and in-kind contributions
- Community-building activities
- Community benefit operations