Debra Bell
Trustee -- GRH Board of Trustees AND GRH Foundation Board
The only identified dual-board member bridging the Grande Ronde Hospital Board of Trustees and the GRH Foundation Board.
Key facts
Role narrative
Debra Bell is listed on the FY2024 IRS Form 990 Part VII filings for both Grande Ronde Hospital, Inc. and the Grande Ronde Hospital Foundation. She is the only identified individual who simultaneously holds a voting seat on the hospital's Board of Trustees and a seat on the Foundation Board.
The hospital's publicly scraped Board of Trustees roster (grh.org/about-us/trustees/, April 7, 2026) confirms Bell as a current Trustee. The Foundation's separately scraped roster (foundation.grh.org, same date) confirms Bell as a current Foundation Board member. Both boards are self-perpetuating -- trustees select their own replacements without public election.
The dual seat is significant because the Foundation, during FY2024, disbursed $582,097 in grants for medical equipment to the hospital, with the Foundation board approving that transfer. Bell sits on both sides of that transaction. The hospital's investigative note on the 990 extract explicitly flags this interlock in the context of assessing the effectiveness of GRH's conflict-of-interest policy.
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