PeaceHealth released its 2025-2028 Community Health Needs Assessments across its Oregon service areas, profiling population health priorities at a moment when the nonprofit system faces unprecedented financial and governance challenges that directly affect its capacity to address community needs.

The CHNAs — required every three years for nonprofit hospital tax-exempt status — document health priorities including behavioral health access, chronic disease management, maternal health, and social determinants of health across Lane County and PeaceHealth's broader Pacific Northwest footprint. The assessments typically drive community benefit investments and programming for the following three-year cycle.

For community health organizations, CCOs, and local providers, the CHNA data provides a roadmap for partnership and advocacy. The priorities identified — particularly behavioral health and maternal health — align with statewide crises documented in the Behavioral Health Talent Council report (32 of 36 rural counties underserved) and Governor Kotek's $25 million maternity care investment. But PeaceHealth's community benefit commitments face a credibility test: the system is simultaneously cutting costs through the ApolloMD ER transition, and Oregon hospitals broadly are pushing to weaken charity care requirements through HB 4040. Community organizations should use the CHNA findings to hold PeaceHealth accountable for specific, measurable community health investments, particularly in behavioral health workforce development and maternal care access in Lane County.

Watch for PeaceHealth's implementation strategies tied to the CHNA priorities and whether community benefit spending aligns with the assessment findings.