Mobile Infirmary

Mobile Infirmary Association ("Mobile Infirmary") is licensed to operate 677 beds in the Mobile Infirmary Medical Center including 41 physical rehabilitation beds in the j.l. Bedsole/rotary rehabilitation hospital division, providing services necessary to deliver essential healthcare to the gulf coast community regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age. During the fiscal year ended march 31, 2024, Mobile Infirmary served over 23,200 inpatients and provided over 302,000 outpatient services, delivered 816 babies, and performed almost 19,850 surgeries, including 271 open-heart cases. Mobile Infirmary operates a full-time level ii emergency department, open to all persons without regard for ability to pay, which treated over 64,000 people during the year. There are more than 650 physicians on the open Medical staff. (continued on schedule o) as the first hospital in the region to acquire the da vinci surgical system (one of the most precise and least invasive surgical treatments available), Mobile Infirmary has the most comprehensive robotic program along the gulf coast. The da vinci system puts the surgeon's hands at the controls of a state-of-the-art robotic platform with 3d, high- definition vision and miniaturized, wristed instruments designed to help doctors take surgery beyond the limits of the human hand. The da vinci system enables surgeons to perform even the most complex and delicate procedures through very small incisions with unmatched precision. All surgeries are performed with a team of highly skilled and trained Medical professionals. In 2012, Infirmary health (an affiliated company) formed a volunteer committee to serve as a governing body for community involvement for the system, including Mobile Infirmary. This committee, known as ihelp, helps better manage staff and organizational resources by establishing a process to evaluate community needs and ensure our community projects are in line with our mission. The operation bounce-back program offers medically supervised exercise, education, and counseling to patients with cardiovascular diseases. The program assists them in leading productive and active lives. Operation bounce-back is one of the 10 largest cardiac rehabilitation programs in the united states and the first cardiac rehabilitation program in Alabama. Patients of all ages, and with many forms of heart disease, benefit from the program. Mobile Infirmary participates in the medicare and medicaid programs. In addition to that, Mobile Infirmary provides care to patients who meet the criteria of its financial assistance policy. The organization has expanded the federal poverty guidelines to afford charitable care to larger numbers of its patient population. Also, as a result of operating the only hospital based inpatient psychiatric unit in the community for adults, there is a significant amount of indigent care provided through this service. The total amount of charges foregone for healthcare services and supplies furnished under the organization's financial assistance policy for fiscal- year ending 2024 was over 23,411,000, including presumptively eligible patients. The debakey drug education program vehicle travels to schools throughout five counties of southwest Alabama to educate children about the dangers of illegal drug and substance abuse. In addition to visiting public, private and parochial schools, the vehicle is available for community events and other special programs. Recognized by the american hospital Association, the vehicle was the first of its kind in the country. Since it began in 1994, more than 215,000 students have participated in the program. Mobile Infirmary operates a charity pharmacy program that connects low income patients who qualify with free medications that they may not otherwise get filled due to the costs. During the fiscal year ending march 31, 2024, Mobile Infirmary provided over 64,000 in free medications. The Mobile Infirmary case management department also helps other patients register for industry sponsored programs that help patients get prescriptions filled at no or reduced cost. Mobile Infirmary participates in the 340b drug program. This program allows the hospital to purchase drugs at lower costs and roll the savings into programs that benefit the community. These savings are used to fill charity prescriptions for uninsured and under insured patients, offer free cancer screenings and prevention education through our Mobile cancer screening unit, provide uncompensated care for underinsured patients, and the implementation of new services to optimize care for our patients. With the goal of bringing awareness to american heart month and heart disease, Infirmary health participated in the american heart Association's annual Mobile county heart walk in november 2023. Additionally, through Infirmary health's 10,000 sponsorship to aha, Mobile Infirmary donated cpr training kits to williamson high school's health sciences program. The kits provide hands-on learning experiences and everything needed to train 10 students at once in cpr. May marks stroke awareness month, and to celebrate, Mobile Infirmary's stroke coordinators held several community outreach efforts. These included a coloring contest for local elementary-aged students, which included a free coloring book featuring befast (an acronym to recognize the symptoms of stroke). Additionally, they held coffee and clots education events to and free blood pressure screenings for 250 individuals. Throughout fy24, the stroke coordinators held monthly free support groups for patients who had a stroke. They also attended 10 events throughout the year and provided stroke education to more than 500 students and community members. Infirmary health supports its local american cancer society (acs) chapter with numerous fundraisers and events through volunteer, in-kind, and financial contributions such as making strides against breast cancer, chili cook-off, pink pearls support group, and numerous other acs events throughout the year. In october 2023, Infirmary health participated as the survivor sponsor in acs's annual making strides against breast cancer walk. In addition to participating in the walk, Infirmary health employees purchased t-shirts. The fundraising efforts generated 2,285 for acs. Infirmary health employees not only have a team each year for the making strides against breast cancer walk and the chili cook off, but employees also serve on the planning committee for the event. Infirmary health serves as a flagship sponsor for the chili cook off event that had more than 8,000 participants and is the survivor sponsor for the breast cancer walk that has nearly 4,000 walkers. Infirmary health and Infirmary cancer care rolled out its Mobile cancer screening unit in february 2019. The Mobile screening unit helps address the need for access to care in rural communities. In fy24, the unit traveled to many areas of Mobile county. In total, the unit traveled to more than 20 events and provided free screening and education to nearly 2,000 individuals. In may 2023, Infirmary cancer care provided free skin cancer spot checks in Mobile, as well as locations in baldwin county. In total, 80 individuals were screened, and 40 abnormal findings were discovered. Nurse navigators followed up with those who had abnormal findings to refer them to a dermatologist for further screenings. To provide free education to adolescent girls, Infirmary health hosted a "the talk: for girls only" event in Mobile. The event was held in september 2023 and was targeted towards girls ages 8 - 13. An Infirmary health pediatrician spoke at the event and provided free education regarding puberty, menstrual cycles, and other topics. More than 110 girls and their support persons attended the event. Women's and maternal health continues to be a priority for Infirmary health. During fy24, Infirmary health provided free educational information related to women's health at 27 community events across Mobile and baldwin counties. More than 2,000 women were reached through these efforts. Additionally, Mobile Infirmary held free childbirth education, infant cpr, newborn care and safety, and breastfeeding support group classes throughout the year, which had 165 total attendees. Additionally, to provide further education to the community, Infirmary health offered free post-partum and women's health education through monthly blog posts. The post-partum blog, bump & beyond, had 13,000 website visits during fy24. The women's health blog, healthy her, had 500 website visits during the fiscal year. Mobile Infirmary serves as a corporate "big" with big brothers big sisters of south Alabama to provide employee mentors to elementary school students. Each week, Mobile Infirmary allows their corporate bigs to go meet their littles for one hour during the school day. These individuals provide encouragement and friendship which has a positive impact on the