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Cedar City Hospital tells commissioners it meets tax-exempt community-benefit requirements, highlights mental-health and capital investments
Summary
Hospital president Jamieson Robinette told the county the hospital met the six legal requirements for nonprofit tax-exempt status, reported $9.7 million in charity care for 2025 and outlined capital expansions including emergency-department enlargement and a PET/CT suite; he urged continued collaboration on behavioral-health capacity.
Jamieson Robinette, president of Cedar City Hospital, presented the hospital’s annual validation for tax-exempt status and outlined recent investments and community programs.
Robinette said the hospital met the six requirements used to validate nonprofit hospital tax-exempt status: promotion of health care and charitable access; no private inurement to individuals; nondiscriminatory admission and treatment; an appropriately broad governing board and annual conferral with county officials; community benefit that exceeds tax liability; and appropriate use of administrative resources. He reported the hospital's 2025 estimated property tax was $657,749 and said 2025 charity care amounted to $9,668,332; when vouchers, capital investments and bad-debt not pursued for collection are included, he stated the hospital’s total community benefit “goes north of $90,000,000.”
Robinette described capital and service expansions: an emergency-department expansion that increased rooms from 12 to 21 and added three psychiatric-hold rooms (currently operating at roughly 80% capacity), a new molecular-imaging suite (PET/CT) supporting oncology services, and plans for a larger cancer center, a medical office building and a low-cost ambulatory surgery center to reduce patient travel for routine procedures. He also summarized recruitment plans for physicians and advanced practice providers to address primary-care shortages.
On behavioral health, Robinette said the hospital is prioritizing access and suicide-prevention efforts identified in its community health needs assessment; he described plans to increase training, awareness and partnerships with schools, builders and manufacturers to reach high-need groups. Robinette emphasized the value of regional receiving centers but said funding constraints make a local receiving center difficult without additional state operational dollars; he urged the commission to work with state partners to seek funding if Iron County is to host such a facility.
Commissioners asked about psychiatric hold times and placement; Robinette said statewide bed availability has improved compared with the prior year but waits still occur and the hospital uses telepsychiatry and medical-floor admissions as interim measures.
