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Community impact through the decades
With your support, we have received more than $13 million in charitable gifts since our founding in 1977. You, along with your neighbors and friends, have made a positive impact on the health of our Ashland, Talent, and Phoenix communities. Please join us in this walk down memory lane!

- 1977
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- 2022
Ruth Evans donation established William G. & Ruth T. Evans Nursing Scholarship
- Ruth Evans donation establishes the William G. & Ruth T. Evans Nursing Scholarship to support registered nursing students enrolled at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Ashland Campus, and Rogue Community College (RCC)
Dedication of Evans Family Comfort Room at Ashland’s hospital
- Creation of the Innovation Fund
- The Evans Family Comfort Room (funded by donations to ACHF) is dedicated at Asante Ashland Community Hospital
- Celebration of the Medical/Surgical Department staff break room funded by the generosity of Bob Holbrook
Bob Holbrook and Margie Lininger at Lab staff break room dedication
- ACHF hosts Innovation Symposium for community leaders, stakeholders, and Asante employees
- ACHF secures grant funding to support the expansion of the School Nurse Program of Asante Ashland Community Hospital to all K-12 Schools in Ashland, Talent, and Phoenix
- Celebration of the Lab Department staff break room funded by the generosity of Bob Holbrook
Foundation staff at new office
- Asante discontinues support of staffing and office space for ACH Foundation
- Foundation relocates office to 123 Clear Creek Drive, Suite 101, in Ashland, Oregon
- Conference room at Asante Ashland Community Hospital is renovated thanks to a generous estate gift to ACHF from Barb and Sid Field
Distinguished Service Award wall
- Board of directors embarks on comprehensive strategic plan to guide our work through 2024 as we reimagine our future as a community focused foundation
- Thanks to a generous gift to ACHF from Bob Holbrook, the cafeteria at Asante Ashland Community Hospital is transformed and renamed the Bob Holbrook Café
- William G. & Ruth T. Evans Nursing Scholarship awards record-setting scholarships of $169,683 for local nursing students
- The Distinguished Service Award wall is relocated to its new home at the foundation office
