Community Help
We realize that great community health doesn’t start and stop on our doorstep. That’s why EIRMC has always been an involved corporate citizen — donating time, money, and sponsorship to a wide variety of community causes.
Our Economic Impact
Providing great healthcare is our number one priority. But providing great jobs and helping fuel the local economy are significant fringe benefits. In fact, as the third largest private employer in Bonneville County, EIRMC’s economic impact is measured in hundreds of millions, with funds being used for capital reinvestment, local employment opportunities, drawing visitors into Idaho Falls, and generating tax revenues in support of local services. Because EIRMC serves as the region’s medical services “hub,” hundreds of stand-alone healthcare “spokes” have been able to open their doors in the past decade, driving additional construction starts, employment, and economic vitality in our area.
- Annual payroll: $75.8 million
- Capital reinvestment in the community since 1996: $130+ million
- Annual taxes paid: $22.4 million
- Charity, indigent, unreimbursed and under-reimbursed care: $267.3 million
- Average hourly rate of EIRMC employees: $25.95
- Community sponsorships: Nearly 200 different organizations
Where this Community Turns for Help
In a series of independent studies*, Bonneville County residents overwhelmingly choose EIRMC by large (and growing) margins as their preferred hospital across a broad spectrum of categories:
- Prefer for an overnight stay
- Prefer for a same day surgery
- Prefer for cardiology
- Prefer for orthopedics
- Prefer for neurosciences
- Prefer for routine obstetrics
- Prefer for complicated childbirth
- Prefer for oncology
- Prefer for emergency services
- Most and best technology
- Best physicians
- Most caring staff
- Most convenient
- Safest care
- Most complication-free care
- Provides most care for those who can’t afford to pay
- Best infection control practices
- Best overall hospital
* Data source: Valley Research, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2008
“Idaho Falls is lucky to have a medical center of EIRMC’s caliber for a lot of reasons. But beyond the expertise they provide inside the hospital, they also care deeply about making our community a wonderful place to live… EIRMC is something I brag about when talking about our city.”
—Jared Fuhriman, Mayor, City of Idaho Falls
“Thank you so much for your generous donation to the Haven Shelter. All your funds will go to helping us with our mission of helping families rebuild their lives.”
—Anne Johnson, Haven Manager
“The nursing staff at EIRMC was very friendly and concerned about my comfort and well being If the student nurses who helped me turn out anything like your nursing staff when they graduate, they will be a welcome addition to any medical staff.”
—Bob Skinner, Idaho Falls