For a more detailed look at Baptist's level of community involvement, please read our 2009 Community Report.
From left to right, Key Onna, Tasha, Roderick and Khanya Allen enjoy their new kitchen, stocked with gifts from Baptist colleagues.
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Baptist Colleagues completed 2nd Habitat Home
For the second consecutive year, Baptist contributed the entire $60,000 sponsorship for a local Habitat for Humanity home. Baptist volunteers worked all 480 shifts to complete the five-bedroom, two-bathroom house over a two-month period, and on June 23, the Allen family received the keys to their new home.
“I had the opportunity to meet Roderick and Tasha Allen before we started the build, and they are a sweet, loving and gracious family,” said Carolyn Hicks Fry, Baptist’s volunteer coordinator for the build. “They are very thankful for all the work that has been put into this house to make it a home.”
The Allens have six children and attend El-Shaddai Christian Church, where Roderick is a youth pastor, Tasha is training to be a minister, and the children sing in the choir.
In addition to all the volunteer hours, Baptist colleagues contributed housewarming gifts to make the Allen family feel right at home — towels and linens, rugs, cleaning supplies, toiletries, a vacuum, and a kitchen equipped with coffee pot, microwave, and a fully stocked pantry. Baptist’s Information Systems department also completely restored the family’s computer, which had been broken.
One of Baptist’s most important missions is to strengthen our community through initiatives that support the underserved. Our partnership with Habitat for Humanity has been so successful, we are starting a third project in DeSoto County in September.
Habitat still needs donations to help the Allens fully furnish their house. If you would like to help, please contact the Baptist Community Relations department at 901-227-3531.
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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.
Baptist provided more than $100 million in charity care in 2009. Many Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation employees volunteer their time and physicians donate their services.
All of the hospitals in the Baptist Memorial Health Care system 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 organizations.
Here are recent examples of community care throughout the Baptist system:
- Baptist DeSoto raised more than $24,000 through various fundraising efforts to support the American Heart Association, in addition to performing hundreds of hours of volunteer work.
- Baptist Golden Triangle has helped fund nursing faculty positions at Mississippi University for Women for the past 15 years and also provided a grant to fund a nursing externship program, which helps provide nursing students with additional critical thinking and clinical skill experiences.
- Baptist Union County partnered with the Mississippi Extension Service Clinical Nutritional Director on Mississippi in Motion, Healthy Steps Weight Management, senior health fairs and other events throughout the year.
- Baptist Memphis raised more than $82,000 for the American Heart Association’s Heart Walk in 2009.
- In 2009, Baptist Memorial Health Care’s $60,000 sponsorship of a Habitat for Humanity home was the largest financial commitment by a health care organization in the Memphis area. Baptist colleagues volunteered more than 2,400 hours of labor to build the home and contributed approximately $2,500 in additional furnishings and housewarming gifts.
- Baptist Huntingdon provided more than $13,000 in community benefit through the Baptist Sports Medicine Program, which includes a coach’s clinic, free Saturday morning screenings for injuries, and in-game athletic trainers for five Carroll and Benton County schools.
- Baptist North Mississippi’s Girls Day Out, a women’s health and wellness event, offered free health screenings as well as exercise and self-defense classes to more than 300 participants.
- Baptist Booneville’s Back-to-School Health Fair, in conjunction with the Booneville Boys and Girls Club, provided 300 people with free health screenings, safety information and Boys and Girls Club literature.
- Baptist College of Health Sciences participated in a medical mission trip to Ometepec, Mexico to provide care to the Amusgo Indians. The team included 17 Baptist College students who treated more than 500 people during the four-day trip.
- Baptist Rehabilitation-Germantown donated $2,500 to the West Tennessee chapter of the Arthritis Foundation and was a major participant in the annual Arthritis Walk.
- Baptist Union City was a corporate sponsor for the Hometown Walk of Hope benefiting the Obion County Cancer Agency, an organization that assists with the financial needs of cancer patient. The hospital and its colleagues contributed more that $9,000 to the event.
- Baptist Union City gave $5,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Northwest Tennessee’s Healthy Habits program, designed to help kids aged 6-15 learn about nutrition, exercise and overall well-being.
- NEA Baptist hosted Family Fest, a fall health fair that provided free health screenings, nutrition education, and fitness fun to more than 800 attendees of all ages.
- Baptist Huntingdon was a gold sponsor and charter member of the Relay for Life of Carroll South and contributed more than $12,000 overall to the organization in support of cancer research.
- Baptist Tipton held free monthly educational luncheons, participated in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, donated $30,000 to Dyersburg State Community College and Tipton County Schools and supported the March of Dimes.
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Baptist's philanthropic giving is focused on two primary areas, education and health care delivery and preventive services.
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