Infirmary Foundation

Provided funding to mobile Infirmary medical center, a 501(c)(3) hospital for purchase of state of the art healthcare equipment as the hospital meets the healthcare needs of many clients within the community through inpatient/outpatient care, rehabilitation, therapy, and education. Specifically, needed new safety equipment, therapy equipment and office furniture was purchased to update departments at mobile Infirmary. The Foundation also paid for several individuals to attend conferences and summits to ensure the medical staff is keeping up with current advances in medicine. In addition, the Foundation sponsored the debakey awards ceremony which is a scholarship for medical students who commit to serving rural areas in Alabama as primary care doctors for at least 5 years after their medical school and residency is completed.

The Foundation supports the community by providing funds to other area health related 501(c)(3) or public organizations. Funding was also provided for 10 recipients of the bramlett healthcare scholarship for dependents of employees seeking an undergraduate degree in a health-related profession and 21 awards of excellence were handed out. Ride yellow raises awareness of cancer and donates to various cancer charities. The Foundation also provided many lunches and snacks for frontline medical workers putting in long hours due to covid-19. The alzheimer's daycare program was reopened this year, as the building was turned into a covid testing center last year.

The ernest g. debakey drug education program is a mobile state-of-the-art education bus and also a website that contains all the videos and educational material that is contained in the bus. The bus travels to public, private and parochial schools throughout seven counties in southwest Alabama and Florida to provide fifth-grade students with information about the dangers of drug use and abuse. In 436 programs, 4707 students visited the drug bus. During the summer, on weekends, and evenings, we service younger children, middle school students, teenagers and adults at the following: boys and girls club after school and summer camps, ymca aftercare, summer camps, church health fairs, community events, business health fairs, Infirmary events, world of opportunity, and church festivals. The main goal of the website is to make our program available to schools outside of our traveling area. Anyone can access our site. Schools and other organizations are using the site to go over drug education in their classes. The website averages over 7,000 hits per month. Www.debakeydrugeducation.com

Infirmary Foundation maintains the my bodyworks exhibit at the gulf coast exploreum science center. My bodyworks is one of the most advanced health galleries in the nation and features more than 50 custom designed exhibits and professionally equipped health and biology labs. Each exhibit reveals information about anatomy, nutrition or exercise in a fun and inner-active environment. Children and adults can learn more about living life to its fullest with healthy choices. The exhibit should raise awareness of careers in the healthcare industry.