Destination Humboldt

There are many exciting and inspiring things happening at Providence St. Joseph Hospital Foundation. We’re glad to share them with you.

Attracting the best and brightest clinicians and addressing the urgent need for better access to care

Tackling the Physician Shortage through Philanthropy

Even with the tremendous progress to date of this groundbreaking initiative-begun in Humboldt and being duplicated in other Providence ministries-we still face access challenges.

Focus of the Destination Humboldt Initiative:
Physician Recruitment, Retention and Clinician Wellbeing

We’re asking you to assist us in addressing the physician shortage head-on by providing the necessary resources to compete for the best and brightest clinicians. We’ll focus resources on physician recruitment and retention through incentives such as:

Loan repayment assistance
Aid with relocation costs
Leadership development
Wellness support
Family establishment in the community and more

Incentives will be given in exchange for multi-year commitments to practicing in the region.

Your support will help bring more doctors, nurses, technicians, and support staff, while honoring and retaining those who have already dedicated their careers to the people of the North Coast.

Integrated Surgical Suite Needs

Mazor Intraoperative Robot

Goal: $500,000

This automated robotic arm holds key surgical instrumentation in place for the surgeon. Robotic guidance then helps our surgeons execute the custom surgical plan with exceptional precision through micro incisions.

S8 Stealth Image-Guided System

Goal: $150,000

The intuitive StealthStation™ S8 system enables clear visualization and surgical navigation of every segment in the spine.

O-Arm Intraoperative CT Platform

Goal: $600,000

The O-arm Surgical Imaging System provides real-time, intra-operative imaging of a patient’s anatomy with high quality images and a large field-of-view in both two and three dimensions.

Early Success - Impact of Destination Humboldt Donor Dollars

Since April of 2023, this community has generously responded to our pilot program of utilizing philanthropy funds for Physician Recruitment & Retention by donating more than $1.3M toward Destination Humboldt.

This has resulted in the successful recruitment of more than a dozen new providers and played a key role in retaining several current providers through funding of needed equipment to expand services.

Early success of Destination Humboldt means that as many as 9,000 members of our community could be served by a Primary Care provider. This not only improves these individual patients’ health and wellbeing, but the far-reaching benefits are also felt by patients’ families, communities and the operations of our local health systems as well.

SUPPORT OUR WORK

Now, more than ever, our community needs Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and compassionate neighbors like you.