This is What We Mean When We Say "Community Owned and Operated"
The Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation (the Foundation) is a non-profit corporation founded in 1968 by a group of community volunteers who wanted local healthcare under local control.
Today's stewards of the Foundation are a board of community members who donate their time and expertise to guide and protect this legacy.
In 2016 contract negotiations stalled with our then operator, Banner Health. The Foundation board stayed true to our founding principal of local control and created Foundation Health Partners, a local operator whose sole focus is providing the best care for our community.
Every dollar you spend on healthcare at Foundation Health Partners and every penny you donate to the Foundation goes back into the organization to pay for infrastructure like specialty services not generally available in a community our size, ensuring access to emergency care when you need it and growing healthcare access for our community.
This is what we mean when we say "Community Owned and Operated." Without you, this is not possible.
In 1967, the Chena river flooded destroying the only hospital in the interior. In 1968 a group of community volunteers formed, The Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation with the aim of keeping local healthcare under local control. In May 1970 the goal became a reality as construction of Fairbanks Memorial Hospital began. The first patients were admitted to the 88 bed hospital in April 1972.
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