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Matthew 21:22



Help for Every Generation

Giving back to the community and caring for those in need are the primary missions of a not-for-profit health care provider, and Baptist Memorial Health Care does just that through education, community health fairs and charity care. Learn more through this video clip of a story presented on WKNO-TV Channel 10's Smart Medicine show. (Quicktime, 5.8 MB)

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Baptist Memorial Health Care is committed to serving the Mid-South community. Baptist employees and physicians, through their donations of time, money, and resources, help to make the Mid-South a better community for everyone.



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Baptist:
  • provides more than $20 million in charity care each year.
  • provides more than $1 million in patient care services each year to the Church Health Center in Memphis, a clinic that serves the working poor, so their patients can get follow-up care at Baptist hospitals.
  • provides health care for the homeless through the Operation Outreach mobile clinic
  • provides free space for the Hope and Healing Center, which has a rent equivalency of more than $450,000 a year.
  • employees volunteer their time and physicians donate their services.
  • hospitals offer health education and screening programs in their respective communities. These screenings include free blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol checks.

The hospitals also work with local chambers of commerce and support charitable organizations such as United Way, March of Dimes, adopt-a-school programs and many other worthwhile community organizations.

Recent examples of community care throughout the Baptist system include:
  • Early pregnancy classes offered free to expectant mothers and their families by Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County, in New Albany, Mississippi.
  • Group screening mammograms provided at reduced cost to residents of Ripley, Tennessee, by Baptist Memorial Hospital-Lauderdale.
  • A "Free Surgery Day," enabling patients without insurance or other means of payment to have free cataract surgery, offered by Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi, in Oxford.
  • A "Free Surgery Day," enabling patients without insurance or other means of payment to have free cataract surgery, offered by Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi, in Oxford.




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Charitable Contributions
Baptist's philanthropic giving is focused on two primary areas, education and health care delivery and preventive services.




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Memphis, TN 38120
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