Rooted in Resiliency, Growing into the Future

Message from Mosaic CEO Megan Haase, FNP

As a nonprofit Community Health Center, also known as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Mosaic is part of a network of 1,400 independent organizations across the country who provide vital healthcare services to underserved populations. We receive grant funding from the federal government and other sources to provide a critical safety net for community members irrespective of their income or insurance status.

During these changing times nationally, I am reminded of how resilient and adaptive we truly are. For example, our organization not only survived, but thrived during the global COVID-19 pandemic, leaning into our strengths of adaptability, innovation and compassion. Currently, we are adapting our services to meet the increasing needs of our region’s homeless residents, implementing a mobile street medicine team to meet people where they are.

Our achievements of today rest squarely on a strong foundation that was laid more than two decades ago, when our first clinic in Central Oregon was opened in Prineville. Our founding is rooted in a grassroots response to community concern about the number of people ending up in the emergency room with preventable acute needs.

Sharry Fassett, CRNA, led a group of local leaders, including Linda Hatch, FNP, our first provider, to come together with the goal of ensuring that individuals and families without access to primary care would have some place to go.

Every day at Mosaic is a testament to the spirit of our founding: people coming together to make a difference for the health of our community. I’m so grateful to have been part of Mosaic since our founding, and I am confident in our strong, deep roots that will enable us to remain resilient and grow with and advocate for our community long into the future.