Jamieson Robinette, president of Cedar City Hospital, presented the hospital’s annual nonprofit update to the Iron County Commission, summarizing community benefit, charity care, capital investments and planned projects.

Robinette said Cedar City Hospital provided more than $6 million in charity care in 2024 and paid approximately $635,000 in local property taxes. She outlined the hospital’s broader community investment, including education, volunteer services and discounted care, which the hospital quantified as a larger “total community gift.” She described ongoing capital projects: an emergency-department expansion adding nine rooms (including four behavioral-health rooms), a medical office building to consolidate primary care and free space for specialists, an infusion-suite expansion and replacement/house installation of a PET‑CT scanner and a second CT to support oncology and diagnostic services.

Why it matters: The hospital is a major local health-care provider and an Intermountain Health affiliate; expansion of behavioral‑health ED capacity and local specialty services aim to keep more patients in Iron County rather than traveling to other cities. Robinette noted the hospital is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) and explained the criteria used to support tax‑exempt status, including charity care, community health needs assessments and documented community benefit investments.

Local partnerships: Robinette highlighted partnerships with public health and social-service agencies, workforce and education initiatives with the school district and Southern Utah University, and outreach such as coach training on suicide awareness. She noted the hospital’s role in sending patients to recent regional behavioral-health receiving centers and expressed willingness to explore partnerships to improve local behavioral-health care access.

Follow-up: Commissioners thanked the hospital leadership for the report. Staff noted the nonprofit update is a required annual presentation used to confirm community benefit and maintain tax-exempt reporting records; the commission did not take a separate vote beyond accepting the presentation as part of the meeting record.

Evidence in transcript: The presentation included slides summarizing board changes, caregiver counts, patient encounters, charity care totals, capital projects and the community health needs assessment schedule.