Asante Foundation Board of Directors


The Asante Foundation, with offices at both Rogue Valley Medical Center (RVMC) and Three Rivers Community Hospital (TRCH), has sought to improve healthcare in southern Oregon and northern California for over 20 years.

The primary goal of the Foundation is to raise funds, ensuring that we continue to meet the needs of our rapidly growing region.

Past donations to the Foundation have enabled Asante to add TRCH in Grants Pass, to achieve the RVMC rebuild, and to complete the build-out of the new 6th floor at RVMC as an Inpatient Rehabilitation Center.  Also, the Dubs and Spears Cancer Centers, the Francis Cheney Family Place in Medford and the Family House in Grants Pass (both of which offer patients and family members low-cost places to stay while receiving treatment), were all made possible as the result of the support of the local community through donations.

Currently the Foundation is celebrating TomoTherapy becoming a reality at RVMC, and we are continuing to work to bring Stereotactic Breast Biopsy equipment to TRCH.  Call us at 541-789-5025 or 541-472-7300 if you would like to help bring this innovative diagnostic and treatment option to the Three Rivers community, or to help in other ways, or just get more information.

Foundation trustees are community leaders who volunteer their time to raise funds and serve as advocates for our communities and hospitals. They help with the allocation of resources and enrich the services provided by both not-for-profit medical institutions.

 

Asante Foundation Officers

  • John Schiavone, Chair
  • Douglass Schmor, Vice Chair
  • Kathy Peckham, Secretary 
  • April Smith, Treasurer
  • Les Cracraft, Immediate Past Chair

Asante Foundation Trustees

  • Gene Abell
  • Luis Aguirre
  • Michael Bird
  • Robert Brooks 
  • Stan Deupree 
  • Cory Fawcett, MD
  • Stuart Freedman 
  • Robert Gentry, MD
  • Travis Hamlyn
  • Cynthia Harelson
  • Robert Holland
  • Richard Hutchins
  • Clifford Kuhlman
  • Hyla Lipson
  • Jeffery Louie, MD
  • Kimberly Martinez-Ward
  • Richard McLaughlin
  • Krissy Millner
  • Michael Moore
  • Gerhard Tank, MD
  • Jim Teece
  • Doneta Thomason
  • Darlene Tuenker
  • Teri Beth Ward
  • Pastor Dennis Webber

Ex-Officio Trustees  

  • Roger Bernard, MD; Asante Board Chair
  • Roy Vinyard, Asante President and CEO

 

Foundation Staff

  • Deborah Ameen - Chief Development Officer
  • Leslie Cox - Secretary (RVMC)
  • Debbie Daggett - Grants Coordinator
  • Pam Ealy - Program Specialist, Donor Systems
  • Phylis McKeen - Administrative Assistant (TRCH)
  • Susan Mendenhall - Development Officer, Children's Health /
     Children's Miracle Network Program Director
  • Sandy Olson - Director of Research and Development  
  • Laura Rothboeck - Manager of Development
  • Dawn Welch - Regional Manager of Development