Union County: Documented Roles and Money Flows
This map assembles documented roles involving the Board of Commissioners, Grande Ronde Hospital and its foundation, the Center for Human Development, Baum Smith LLC, and EOCCO. A connection shows a recorded seat, professional role, or dated financial flow; it does not by itself establish influence, coordination, or wrongdoing.
Union County, Oregon has roughly 26,000 residents. Its elected government is three nonpartisan county commissioners. The County's December 2025 payroll report listed monthly gross pay of $7,351 for each commissioner, equivalent to $88,212 if annualized at that monthly rate. Their legal counsel is Wyatt S. Baum, identified in the reviewed sources as a founding partner of Baum Smith LLC and a fourth-generation member of a family with documented Grande Ronde Hospital governance roles beginning with David C. Baum's 1962 board chairmanship.
Grande Ronde Hospital is a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital. Its FY2024 Form 990 reports $159.4 million in revenue, $236.1 million in assets, and 933 employees. Its board describes itself as self-perpetuating. The FY2024 Foundation return lists both Wyatt Baum and Commissioner Paul Anderes as unpaid directors; the current Foundation web roster checked August 9, 2026 still lists Baum but does not list Anderes, so this page treats their overlap as an FY2024 snapshot rather than a current shared seat.
The records document several financial and governance links. Oregon taxpayers fund Union County government. Seventy-nine monthly expenditure reports list Baum Smith LLC legal-service payments; the engagement terms were not in the reviewed public materials. County government appoints commissioner liaisons (Matt Scarfo) to the Center for Human Development. CHD's FY2023 return reports $8.6 million in program-services revenue; the reviewed return excerpt does not identify its payer mix. EOCCO is a Coordinated Care Organization in which GRH holds a 10 percent ownership stake. GRH's CEO, Jeremy Davis, represents GRH on the EOCCO board.
What this page documents is not corruption -- that determination is for investigators and courts. What it documents is structural overlap: named individuals hold documented roles across public, nonprofit, health-care, and legal organizations. Those overlaps are relevant context, but the source record must be consulted before drawing any conclusion about a particular decision.
Board overlap matrix
Rows are people. Columns are institutions. A filled cell means the corpus documents a seat or role; empty cells mean no seat found, not a denial of one. Hover a cell for the role and date range; click the source tag to open the citation.
| Person | Commission | GRH Board | GRH Fdn | CHD | Baum Smith | EOCCO | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2+ Wyatt S. Baum County Counsel; GRH Foundation; founding Baum Smith partner | County Counsel (outside contract)src | -- | Board membersrc | -- | Founding partnersrc | -- | -- |
Paul Anderes Commission Chair; GRH Foundation director on FY2024 return | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
R. Matt Scarfo Commission, Position 2; OGEC case 25-708ECF | -- | -- | Commissioner liaisonsrc | -- | -- | -- | |
Jake Seavert Commission, Position 3; moved the Jan 22 motion | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
2+ Jeremy P. Davis, MHA GRH President and CEO; EOCCO board | -- | President and CEO (official roster checked Aug. 9, 2026)src | -- | -- | -- | GRH representative to EOCCO boardsrc | -- |
Samuel (Sam) Kimball, OD GRH Board Chair (official roster checked Aug. 9, 2026); Vice Chair FY2024 | -- | Board Chair (checked Aug. 9, 2026; VC FY2024)src | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Stephen McLean GRH Board Chair FY2024 per Form 990 | -- | Chair (FY2024)src | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Stephen McIlmoil, MD GRH Trustee + highly-compensated physician ($524,954 FY2024) | -- | Trustee (physician; $524,954 comp FY2024)src | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Aaron Wells Grigg, MD GRH pediatrician (NPI 1083804918); Chief Medical Informatics Officer; Medical Staff President on GRH Board of Trustees | -- | Medical Staff President (voting Trustee)src: private research | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
2+ Aaron Anderson Grigg, LCSW Center for Human Development Mental Health Director (NPI 1477649549); GOBHI board member FY2017-FY2022; CHD capitation recipient | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | GOBHI board (Member/Secretary); CHD capitation recipient ($3.66M FY2018)src: private research | -- |
Rebecca Locke, DO GRH Trustee (physician) | -- | Trustee (physician)src | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Lewis Baynes, MD GRH Trustee (physician) | -- | Trustee (physician)src | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Kathleen Cathey GRH Trustee | -- | Trusteesrc | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Michael Hetrick GRH Trustee | -- | Trusteesrc | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Patty Olson-Lindsey GRH Trustee | -- | Trusteesrc | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Mike Billman GRH Trustee | -- | Trusteesrc | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Nick Huelter GRH Trustee | -- | Trusteesrc | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Bill Gamble GRH Trustee | -- | Trusteesrc | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Patty Barfield GRH Trustee | -- | Trusteesrc | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
2+ Jared Rogers GRH Vice Chair; MESC filings 2012-2025; AHA Governance | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
2+ Debra Bell Listed on both GRH boards in FY2024 filings and Aug. 9, 2026 rosters | -- | Trusteesrc | Board membersrc | -- | -- | -- | -- |
2+ Heather Null GRH Foundation Secretary; spouse of Bingaman 23PR02271 court-appointed attorney J. Glenn Null | -- | -- | Secretarysrc | -- | -- | -- | Household tie -- J. Glenn Null (ct-appointed counsel, 23PR02271)src |
Shannon Houck GRH Foundation Chair (2026) | -- | -- | Chairsrc | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Dwight Dill CHD Chair; prior CHD management (2014-17) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
Peter Maille CHD Vice Chair | -- | -- | -- | Vice Chairmansrc | -- | -- | -- |
2+ Gary Bell Sits on both CHD Board and GRH Board of Trustees | -- | Trusteesrc | -- | Board membersrc | -- | -- | -- |
2+ George Mendoza Sits on both GRH Foundation and CHD Board | -- | -- | Board membersrc | Board membersrc | -- | -- | -- |
David C. Baum Jr. Legacy Baum partner; removed from OTEC board May 2025 | -- | -- | -- | -- | Partner (legacy)src | -- | |
Brent Smith Named partner at Baum Smith | -- | -- | -- | -- | Partnersrc | -- | -- |
Sadie Kennedy Associate at Baum Smith | -- | -- | -- | -- | Associatesrc | -- | -- |
Dr. Andrew D. Baum, DPM Wyatt Baum's brother; GRH Clinics podiatrist (Aug 2025-) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Podiatrist, GRH Clinics (hired Aug 2025)src |
David C. Baum Sr. (deceased) Founder of the GRH Board of Trustees (1962) | -- | Founded the Foundation (1969)src | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
Tayde McAndie GRH Foundation Vice Chair | -- | -- | Vice Chairsrc | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Steve Wilcox GRH Foundation Treasurer | -- | -- | Treasurersrc | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Jared Hulme, NP-C GRH Foundation board; $132K related-party comp | -- | -- | Board member ($132K related-party FY2024)src | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Libby Goben GRH Foundation board member | -- | -- | Board membersrc | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Patrick Flynn GRH Foundation Manager ($78,379 comp) | -- | -- | Foundation Manager ($78,379)src | -- | -- | -- | -- |
Doug Briney CHD Board Secretary (FY2023) | -- | -- | -- | Secretarysrc | -- | -- | -- |
Farideh Alvijeh CHD Board member (FY2023) | -- | -- | -- | Board membersrc | -- | -- | -- |
Kaytlin Killion CHD Board member (FY2023) | -- | -- | -- | Board membersrc | -- | -- | -- |
Keith Hudson CHD Board member (FY2023) | -- | -- | -- | Board membersrc | -- | -- | -- |
Toni Smith CHD Board member (FY2023) | -- | -- | -- | Board membersrc | -- | -- | -- |
Doug Romer CHD Interim Chair FY2021 (historical) [confidence C -- flagged for verification] | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
Cheri Davis MESC Director (2012-2025) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
Erin Anderson MESC Director/Secretary (2012-2025) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
Stacy Shown MESC Chair (2016-2023) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
2+ Jill Boyd MESC Chair 2014-2016 + OHA/GOBHI employee + Judge Jared Boyd's spouse | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | GOBHI/OHA employeesrc | |
Jennifer Graffunder MESC historical board member | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Mt. Emily Safe Center -- Board membersrc |
Ryan Oscar Miller MESC historical board member | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Mt. Emily Safe Center -- Board membersrc |
2+ Dennis Burke MESC Treasurer + ex-Good Shepherd CEO + EOCCO permanent attendee | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | EOCCO consultant / permanent attendeesrc: private research | Mt. Emily Safe Center -- Treasurersrc |
David Richardson Moda SVP; chairs EOCCO board meetings | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | EOCCO Chair (Moda SVP)src: private research | -- |
Joe Greenman Moda Associate General Counsel; EOCCO board | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | EOCCO board (Moda AGC)src: private research | -- |
Karen Wheeler Former GOBHI CEO | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Ex-GOBHI CEOsrc: private research | -- |
Chris Siegner GOBHI Chair; Symmetry Care capitation $1.12M | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | GOBHI Chair (Symmetry Care cap $1.12M)src: private research | -- |
Ann Ford GOBHI CEO in the reviewed WAVE 61 source | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | GOBHI CEOsrc: private research | -- |
Shawn Gee EOIPA (Eastern Oregon IPA) representative on EOCCO | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | EOIPA rep on EOCCO boardsrc: private research | -- |
Chanel Kelly EOCCO Community Advisory Council (CAC) Chair | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | CAC Chairsrc: private research | -- |
Daniel W. Grigg, FACHE Wallowa Memorial Hospital CEO (Sept 2023-present); Harney District Hospital CEO 2015-2023; EOCCO board (Dec 2024) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Wallowa Memorial Hospital rep on EOCCO boardsrc: private research | -- |
Cam Marlowe Blue Mountain Hospital -- EOCCO board seat | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Blue Mountain Hospital rep on EOCCOsrc: private research | -- |
2+ Bob Seymour GRH CFO; represents GRH at EOCCO | -- | GRH CFO (officer)src: private research | -- | -- | -- | GRH rep at EOCCOsrc: private research | -- |
Empty cells = absence of evidence, not evidence of absence. If you know of a seat we missed, email levi@valorinvestigates.com with the public record and we will add it.
The money flow
A tiered block diagram: public funding sources on the left, institutional intermediaries in the middle, compensation and outbound payments on the right. Every dollar figure has a citation. A screen-reader accessible table follows the diagram.
View the money-flow data as a table (screen-reader friendly)
| From | To | Flow | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon taxpayers | Union County government | property tax + state | $69.67M FY27 budget | https://unioncountyor.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Approved-Budget-for-Website-FY-2026-27.pdf |
| Medicare / CMS | Grande Ronde Hospital, Inc. | Medicare (CAH cost-based) | -- | organizations/grande-ronde-hospital/SUMMARY.md |
| Oregon Health Authority / OHP | EOCCO (CCO) | Medicaid capitation | -- | players/baum-family.md |
| EOCCO (CCO) | Grande Ronde Hospital, Inc. | CCO payments (GRH 10% owner) | -- | players/baum-family.md |
| EOCCO (CCO) | Center for Human Development | behavioral-health capitation | -- | organizations/center-for-human-development/SUMMARY.md |
| State grants / Measure 110 | Center for Human Development | state grants + Measure 110 | -- | organizations/center-for-human-development/SUMMARY.md |
| Private donors | GRH Foundation | contributions (67% of fdn revenue) | -- | players/grh-board-rosters.md |
| Union County government | 3 commissioners | Dec 2025 monthly rate, annualized | $264,636 annualized | public-records/commissioner-salaries-and-more.md |
| Union County government | County Admin Officer | Dec 2025 monthly rate, annualized | $112,656 annualized | public-records/commissioner-salaries-and-more.md |
| Union County government | Baum Smith LLC | published legal-service payments | $127,250.05 | primary: corpus_union_county.vendor_payments queried 2026-08-09 (internal research reference) |
| Grande Ronde Hospital, Inc. | GRH CEO (Jeremy Davis) | CEO total comp | $491,012 | players/baum-family.md |
| Grande Ronde Hospital, Inc. | GRH top physician | top physician comp | $970,458 | players/baum-family.md |
| GRH Foundation | Foundation -> GRH equipment grant | equipment grant to hospital | $582,097 | players/grh-board-rosters.md |
| Center for Human Development | CHD top NP (Lynn Willis) | top key-employee comp | $156,190 | organizations/center-for-human-development/990-board-and-comp.md |
Organizations
Grande Ronde Hospital
Domestic Nonprofit Corporation (Critical Access Hospital)
Legal: GRANDE RONDE HOSPITAL, INC.
900 Sunset Dr, La Grande, OR 97850
Key people
Grande Ronde Hospital is a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital incorporated April 18, 1962 under the name 'Eastern Oregon Community Medical Center, Inc.' GRH holds a 10% ownership stake in EOCCO, the CCO that manages Medicaid for 12 Eastern Oregon counties. The reviewed sources do not establish that EOCCO's name was derived from GRH's former corporate name.
David C. Baum Sr. was elected the first Board Chair in 1962 and served 15 consecutive years until his death in 1977. His grandson Wyatt Baum appears on the Foundation's official roster checked August 9, 2026. Those are documented family roles at different times; the reviewed record does not establish uninterrupted Baum-family board service in every intervening year. GRH describes its Board of Trustees as self-perpetuating.
GRH was a defendant in Onwezen v. GRH (3:18-cv-01756), an unsealed False Claims Act whistleblower case alleging unnecessary pacemaker procedures. The reviewed complaint/docket materials report a Medicare refund and later dismissal; they do not establish liability, causation between the refund and dismissal, or whether any patients received compensation.
Center for Human Development (CHD)
Domestic Nonprofit Corporation (Human Services)
Legal: CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, INC.
2301 Cove Ave, La Grande, OR 97850
Key people
CHD is a La Grande human-services nonprofit incorporated December 1, 1994. Its reviewed filings describe mental-health, addiction-treatment, developmental-disabilities, public-health, and case-management services.
CHD's FY2023 return reports $8,598,764 in program-service revenue and $5,131,127 in contributions and grants. The return does not break the program-service total down by individual payer. A reviewed NPPES name search found no exact Oregon organizational NPI for CHD; that search result alone does not establish how CHD submits or receives payment for Medicaid services.
The reviewed 990 series lists Dwight Dill in compensated management roles during FY2014-FY2017 and later as an unpaid board chair. The filings document that sequence but do not, by themselves, establish a conflict of interest or violation of nonprofit-governance rules.
Baum Smith LLC
Oregon law firm (registered December 17, 2009 per Oregon SOS/OpenCorporates)
Legal: Baum Smith, LLC (also listed as Baum Smith & Eyre LLC)
808 Adams Ave / 1902 4th St Ste 1, La Grande, OR 97850
Key people
Finances & footprint
- Published Union County payments: $127,250.05 in 118 lines, Jan 2020-Jun 2026[internal src]
- Simultaneous public-sector clients: Union County; La Grande; Joseph; Enterprise; Wallowa; Baker City; Condon; Ontario School District; Wallowa municipal judge[src]
Baum Smith LLC provides documented legal services to Union County. The reviewed role sources also identify Wyatt S. Baum as counsel to multiple municipalities and the Ontario School District, Wallowa's municipal judge, and a GRH Foundation board member.
The firm is the successor to Mautz Baum & O'Hanlon. That predecessor firm produced two sitting judges in the 10th Judicial District: Brian Dretke (associate ~1997-2000, circuit judge 2012-2017) and Mona K. Williams (associate, judge 2018-2019). Judge Thomas Powers -- who struck down the term-limits ordinance on Wyatt Baum's petition -- was appointed in 2017 to replace Dretke.
The 79 reviewed monthly expenditure reports list 118 Baum Smith payment lines totaling $127,250.05 from January 2020 through June 2026; no Baum Smith line appears in July 2026. The reviewed public materials did not include an engagement agreement, rate schedule, or task-level invoices, so the payment total does not establish the terms or scope of the relationship.
Union County Board of Commissioners
Three-seat elected county government (nonpartisan since ~2014)
1106 K Ave, La Grande, OR 97850
Key people
Union County has approximately 26,000 residents. On January 22, 2025, after county counsel Wyatt Baum presented the legal options, the Board voted unanimously to ask the circuit court to determine the legality of voter-approved term-limits Ordinance 2017-01. The meeting minutes record no public comment on that agenda item.
Measure 31-89 passed in May 2016 with 68% support (5,578 yes / 2,599 no). Donna Beverage left office after reaching the ordinance's two-consecutive-term limit; her successor Jake Seavert made the January 22, 2025 motion for judicial review.
OGEC voted 7-0 on February 6, 2026 to authorize an investigation of possible ORS 244.040(1) and ORS 244.120(2) violations by Commissioner Scarfo. A search of OGEC's final-disposition portal returned no published disposition for case 25-708ECF as of August 9, 2026; the authorization was not a finding of violation.
EOCCO / GOBHI
Medicaid Coordinated Care Organization + behavioral-health co-owner
Legal: Eastern Oregon Coordinated Care Organization; Greater Oregon Behavioral Health, Inc.
Key people
GRH's previous corporate name was 'Eastern Oregon Community Medical Center, Inc.' and GRH is identified as an EOCCO owner-member in the reviewed 2022 CGAD. The reviewed sources do not establish that EOCCO's name derives from GRH's former name.
The reviewed ownership sources identify GOBHI with a 29% EOCCO interest. The source dossier also identifies Jill Boyd -- Judge Jared Boyd's spouse -- as an OHA/GOBHI employee and as a former Mt. Emily Safe Center chair (2014-2016). Those facts document roles; they do not establish participation by Judge Boyd in EOCCO decisions.
A November 2018 CMS review said Moda's two-person special-investigations unit devoted about 5% of its time to EOCCO, which then served about 46,979 beneficiaries. EOCCO reported one full investigation across FFY2015-17. CMS also found delegated-entity audits with more than $100,000 in recoupments that had not been referred to OHA or the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. These are dated 2018 findings, not current staffing or caseload figures.
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Methodology
Every board seat, dollar figure, and date on this page is traceable to a cited corpus file, official URL, or clearly labeled internal research reference. Source materials include: IRS Form 990 filings (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer), Oregon Secretary of State business registry (via OpenCorporates), CMS NPPES and Hospital General Information, Union County Board of Commissioners meeting minutes, Union County annual salary reports, OGEC case files and meeting books, plus reporting in The Observer (La Grande), OPB, East Oregonian, and Elkhorn Media Group.
Empty cells in the board-overlap matrix mean the corpus does not document a seat. They do not mean the person has no seat on that body. If you have a public record we missed, email levi@valorinvestigates.com and we will add it.
Union County's 79 published monthly expenditure reports document 118 Baum Smith LLC payment lines totaling $127,250.05 from January 2020 through the June 2026 report; no Baum line appears in July 2026. The December 2025 wage report contains no "County Counsel" payroll row, but absence alone does not establish employment status. The contract, rates, invoices, and procurement file remain unreviewed. This is a gap, not a finding.
Corporate data attribution: OpenCorporates (ODbL licensed, sourced from Oregon Secretary of State). Nonprofit data: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (original IRS filings). Medicare data: CMS NPPES and data.cms.gov public APIs. Court data: Oregon eCourt public records.