As a nonprofit organization, serving the community is at the core of the Scripps Health mission. In keeping with this commitment, Scripps provides a wide range of community benefit programs and services including:

• Uncompensated care (i.e., charity care)
• Community-based health improvement (i.e., community screenings, health education and support groups)
• Professional education and research

Last year, Scripps devoted more that $287 million to community benefit programs and services, $264 million of which went to providing uncompensated care. Learn more in the following publications:

• 2009 Executive Summary (PDF, 5.4 MB)
• 2009 Community Benefit Plan and Report (PDF, 25.2 MB)

Community Benefit Fund

At Scripps we believe that the growing and diverse health care needs in San Diego County can be best served by partnering with organizations that share our values. With this in mind, the Scripps Health Community Benefit Fund was established to support initiatives that meet community health care needs and promote the mission and values (quality, efficiency and respect) of the Scripps Health system.

In 2009, Scripps awarded a total of $100,000 in community grants to programs based throughout San Diego County. Scripps awarded six grants ranging from $15,000 to 40,000 each.

The projects that received funding from the Community Benefit Fund in 2009 to address access to health care include:

• Catholic Charities – Case Management Services: Shelter Support for Medically Fragile
• La Maestra Community Health Center – Hoover High Dental Clinic
• American Cancer Society – Discovery Gala Event to raise money for cancer research, advocacy, education and patient services.
• American Heart Association – Annual Heart Walk to raise funds for research, public education and advocacy
• Partnership for Smoke Free Families – Comprehensive tobacco control program.
• 2-1-1 San Diego – Telephone dialing code, which provides the public with information about community health and disaster services.