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Good Samaritan facts and figures

• Founded: 1952
• Ownership: Good Samaritan Community Healthcare, a private not-for-profit organization governed by a board of directors A part of the MultiCare Health System
• Board chair: Bishop David Wold
• President: John Long
• Location: Based in Puyallup, Wash.; locations throughout eastern Pierce County, Washington
• Organization includes: Good Samaritan Hospital; Good Samaritan Surgery Center Interventional Pain Management Clinic. ; Good Samaritan Children’s Therapy Unit; Good Samaritan Family Medicine and Specialty Clinics; Good Samaritan Community Services and Behavioral Health; Good Samaritan Home Health and Hospice; Good Samaritan Foundation, Dr. Richard C. Ostenson Cancer Center
• Fiscal year: Oct. 1 through Sept. 30
• Total employees: approximately 2,300
• Total licensed hospital beds: 225
• Net patient revenues: $184,738,000 (2003 fiscal year)
• Charity care: $9,167,000 (2003 fiscal year)
• Active volunteers: 953 (2003)
• Physicians on active medical staff: 301 (January 2004)
• Emergency department visits: 56,274 (2003 fiscal year)
• Babies born at Family Birth Center: 1,747 (2002 to 2003 fiscal year)