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ANNUAL REPORT2024
COVEROriginal art by local artist Dirk Walker, commissioned by Baptist Health Foundation for display in patient rooms throughout Baptist Health facilities.THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD; I SHALL NOT WANT.PSALM 23:1
A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
In 2024, Baptist Health Foundation stepped forward in many ways- to boldly champion a New Generation of Nurses, to embrace a new partnership with Baptist Health that allows us to align our values and bring a new day in healthcare, and to grow our financial support to healthcare in our community.Baptist Health Foundation lives on the front lines of healthcare. In 2024 the Foundation identified Central Alabama’s nursing shortage as the most urgent crisis in the patient care continuum and determined that we would use our resources to double match scholarship donations to remove financial barriers for students desiring to pursue the call to Nursing. This year also brought an exciting new partner in healthcare delivery. For over 55 years, Baptist Health Foundation has worked alongside multiple partners in healthcare delivery while remaining true to our core values and beliefs. Our newest partner, Orlando Health, who has since renamed the hospital system to Baptist Health, has demonstrated their long-standing success as a not-for-profit health care system dedicated to improving the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities they serve, was a perfect marriage with Baptist Health Foundation’s commitment to furthering the healing ministry of Jesus Christ. Alison Decker ScottExecutive DirectorFinally, 2024 offered Baptist Health Foundation a chance to expand not only our funds, but also our ability to delve deeper into partnerships with our Community Support Fund grantees. We continue to feel led to support the many organizations who, like us, are seeking to make quality healthcare attainable and available to all our brothers and sisters. We recognize for Baptist Health Foundation, tremendous growth happens when we remain rooted in the fundamentals of why we were founded. THANK YOU for being our partner in this ever-growing mission and ministry. BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
OUR MISSIONTo further the healing ministry of Jesus Christ by serving as a bridge to Baptist Health System’s affiliated hospitals’ uninsured patients, funding pastoral care in its hospitals, assisting employees in need, providing educational opportunities for medical professionals, and contributing to the betterment of our communities.PASTORAL CARESERVING THE COMMUNITYPATIENT & TEAMMEMBER ASSISTANCEHOSPITAL SUPPORT MEDICAL EDUCATION
2024 Board of DirectorsBaptist Health Foundation, Inc.ChairmanJohn Scott, Jr.Starnes Davis Florie LLP Finance ChairmanBob GreeneRetiredVice ChairmanJenny SneedBridgeworth Wealth Management SecretaryChris MitchellMaynard NexsenAmy AllenBaptist Health System, Inc. Melondie CarterSamford UniversityRagan CainTacala, LLC Malcolm MorrowVulcan PumpsLindsay Smith PuckettRegional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham Foundation StaffJim FoytEBSCleo Kathryn GormanTRO Jung | BrannenBrenda HackneyJefferson Giles, LLCAlison Decker ScottExecutive DirectorAmanda RobinsonMarketing and Development Coordinator Kate GillespieFund Development CoordinatorEric JeffriesChief Financial Officer Cherrita TyesAccountant Theatrice BensonExecutive Assistant and Board CoordinatorBaker CrowRetired Jennifer SandersCommunity Volunteer
In October 2024, Orlando Health, a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization, purchased Tenet Healthcare’s majority ownership interest in Brookwood Baptist Health. Founded more than 100 years ago, Orlando Health has a long history of caring for its many and varied communities, and today has $12 billion of assets under management. A NEW DAY IN HEALTHCAREServing the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico, the 5,450+ bed healthcare system includes 58 hospitals and emergency departments. Over 5,000 physicians in 100+ subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system. This partnership with Orlando Health incorporates the five formerly Brookwood Baptist Health hospitals.
INTRODUCINGTo honor a legacy of faith-based care in Central Alabama, the new healthcare system was named Baptist Health. Baptist Health System and the Baptist Health Foundation were founded to provide a Christian environment for clinician education and practice and in which patients could be ministered to both physically and spiritually. We look forward to a bright future continuing this ministry with our new partner and under the new Baptist Health banner.“OUR FAITH HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT THE HEART OF ALL THAT WE DO, AND WE SEE THE CONTINUATION OF THAT REFLECTED IN THIS NEW PARTNERSHIP AND OUR NEW BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION LOGO. ” AMY ALLEN, CEO BAPTIST HEALTH SYSTEMBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
Baptist Health Foundation believes that true healing comes from caring for the whole person, not just their physical needs. Our Pastoral Care Team members serve in all five Baptist Health hospitals meeting with patients, families, and team members to provide spiritual care and share the ministry of God’s healing love. Trained chaplains provide regular worship opportunities in hospital chapels, provide special worship observances as requested, make rounds, and are on-call throughout the week for patients and families as needed. HELPING OTHERS FIND GOD’S HEALING LOVEThe Baptist Health Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) program is nationally recognized for providing post graduate education and training to individuals who have been called to the chaplain ministry. The CPE program is dedicated to teaching and ministering to pastoral care residents and students so that they can provide spiritual support to others as chaplains.A HEALING MINISTRYBAPTIST HEALTH PASTORAL CARE TEAMSCHAPLAIN RESIDENCYThe Pastoral Care team also offers special services and programs throughout the year for Baptist Health team members in their units such as the Blessing of the Hands service and Imposition of Ashes for Ash Wednesday.
Dr. Cecelia Ann Walker, Executive Director of Chaplaincy and leader of the Clinical Pastoral Education Program at Baptist Health was named President of the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education in 2024. Dr. Walker was also named 2024 Alumna of the Year for Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School.CECELIA ANN WALKERMDIV, DMIN, ACPE“THE GOAL IS FOR EVERY PATIENT, FAMILY MEMBER, AND STAFF PERSON TO EXPERIENCE THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHEN THEY COME TO OUR HOSPITALS. ” DR. CECELIA WALKERScan here to learn more and support Pastoral Care Teams in our hospitals.
SERVING THE COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY SUPPORT FUNDThese community partners are truly the hands and feet of Christ in our community, and we are proud to partner with them by providing financial support to address the indentified areas of greatest need including: ■ Access to healthcare and barriers to health ■ Behavioral health ■ Food insecurity ■ Programs aimed at education for the clinical worker shortage in healthcareAs part of our mission to support the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, the Community Support Fund was established by Baptist Health System and Baptist Health Foundation to provide grant funding for non-profits in the communities we serve who are healthcare based in their mission or services and are primarily faith based.Applications for grants are open each year to established 501(c)3 organizations that operate within at least one or more of the communities within our footprint of Jefferson, Shelby, Talladega, and Walker counties. BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
MISSION CONNECTIONBaptist Health team members serve at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Food Bank in Jasper, AL, - a recipient of a Baptist Health Foundation Communi -ty Support Fund grant.Volunteers packed grocery bags and learned more about the 300+ com -munity residents being fed each Tues -day from the food bank.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT FUND HIGHLIGHTSThe Lovelady Center empowers women through Christ-centered initiatives so they can return to society as well-equipped women of God. The program is about empowerment, hope, and a belief in the value of every human life. The Lovelady Center program ensures that each woman is taught how to overcome barriers to success by providing not only much needed services, but also life skills and spiritual guidance.The Alabama Fellows Program is one of ten currently active Schweitzer program sites across the U. S. dedicated to developing a pipeline of emerging professionals who enter the workforce with the skills and commitment necessary to address unmet health needs. They come from a variety of academic disciplines, and as Schweitzer Fellows, they work tirelessly to address existing health disparities in the community.THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER FELLOWSHIP OF ALABAMATHE LOVELADY CENTERBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
THE LOVELADY CENTERSight Savers America works to identify and secure the eye care needs of children from their first pair of eyeglasses to extensive sight-saving treatment and high-tech vision aids for those with severe visual impairment. Additionally, the organization utilizes college nursing students and faculty to offer head-to-toe health screenings.To learn more about this fund or to apply scan here.SIGHT SAVERS AMERICA
Church of the Reconciler was awarded a Community Support Fund grant to support their new initiative to have a part-time social worker to focus on the community’s access to addiction recovery, mental health, housing services, and case management.CHURCH OF THE RECONCILER
2024 Awards SummaryFAITH BASED DIRECT HEALTCHARECOMMUNITY SUPPORT FUND60%59%Alabama Oncology FoundationAlzheimer’s of Central AlabamaBackyard BlessingsBirmingham Metro Baptist AssociationBundles of Hope Diaper BankCahaba Valley Health CareChildren’s Aid Society of AlabamaCollat Jewish Family ServicesCommunity of Hope Health ClinicGrace Klein CommunityLaura Crandall Brown FoundationLovelady CenterMagic City HarvestMaximizing Mental Health, Inc.Meals on Wheels of Central AlabamaMitchell’s PlaceMothers Milk Bank of AlabamaOasis Counseling for Women & ChildrenPrescott House Child Advocacy CenterRainbow Omega, Inc.SafeHouse of Shelby County, Inc.Sav-A-Life, IncShelby Baptist AssociationSight Savers AmericaSpring Valley SchoolSt. Mary’s Episcopal ChurchThe Albert Schweitzer Fellowship of AlabamaThe Bell Center for Early Intervention ProgramsThe Church at SouthsideThe Foundry MinistriesThe Grace PlaceThe Salvation Army Birmingham Area CommandLive Health Smart AlabamaThe WellHouseTRINITY COUNSELING, INCUnforsaken MinistryUnited Ability, Inc.Vax 2 Stop CancerVineyard Family Services of Central Alabama, Inc.YMCA of Greater Birmingham2024 GRANT RECIPIENTS40 ORGANIZATIONS$400,000 AWARDEDBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
In a 2023 survey, The Alabama Board of Nursing found the state is currently short by more than 7,000 nurses, and based on current trends, the shortage will double to 14,000 in the next three years. That survey predicts 39,000 Alabama nurses are likely to retire or leave the profession by 2028. The question that must be asked is , who will fill their shoes? Who will become the new generation of nurses?MEDICAL EDUCATION The Baptist Health Foundation lives on the front lines of healthcare. With a wide view on the entire landscape, we are in a unique position to identify and address the most pressing needs across the field. In pursuit of our mission, the Foundation has identified Central Alabama’s nursing shortage as the most urgent crisis in the patient care continuum.NURSING SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
$779,573 Dollars donated + $ 1,559,147 Double match provided by Baptist Health Foundation & Baptist Health System$2,338,720 Invested in new nurses who want to practice in Central Alabama by the end of 2024The Foundation believes the solution begins in nursing school. Universities and colleges across Alabama have accepted students who drop out or never start a degree program due to costs. To break down this financial barrier and inspire a New Generation of Nurses, the Baptist Health Foundation, in partnership with Baptist Health System established the New Generation of Nurses (NGN) Fund. Because the nursing shortage is the most critical challenge in Alabama Healthcare today, the Baptist Health Foundation and Baptist Health System each committed to matching donations in 2024. In just a few months the fund had already exceeded its initial goal of $1.5 million and currently has over $2 million invested in nurses in Central Alabama.BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
IN SCHOLARSHIPS PROVIDED FOR THIS ACADEMIC YEARUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAMartha Enid Jeffcoat Dean and Williard L. Dean ScholarshipCrow Clenney ScholarshipTanya Melton Cooper ScholarshipBaptist Health Foundation NGN Fund for NursingAUBURN UNIVERSITYAlys Stephens ScholarshipJessica Smith Cooper ScholarshipBaptist Health Foundation NGN Fund for NursingSAMFORD UNIVERSITYThe Hackney Foundation ScholarshipGlenn and Pam Eubanks Family ScholarshipOrlando Health Baptist Health ScholarshipAmy S. Allen ScholarshipThe Sneed Family ScholarshipBaptist Health Foundation NGN Fund for NursingUNIVERSITY OF MONTEVALLOBrian Hamilton ScholarshipBaptist Health Foundation NGN Fund for NursingJEFFERSON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGEJefferson State Community College Foundation ScholarshipBaptist Health Foundation NGN Fund for NursingUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMFay B. Ireland ScholarshipBaptist Health Foundation NGN Fund for NursingGENERALBCBS AL Caring Foundation ScholarshipCommunity Foundation of Greater Birmingham ScholarshipShelby County Community Health Foundation ScholarshipBaptist Health Foundation NGN Fund for Nursing$152,000 WALKER AREA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONBaptist Health Foundation NGN Fund for Nursing
MISSION CONNECTIONNursing students from Samford University and the University of Montevallo serve at the Sight Savers children’s health screenings supported by a grant from the Community Support Fund.BY MAKING NURSING SCHOOL MORE ATTAINABLE, WE CAN INSPIRE A NEW GENERATION OF NURSES. THE OUTCOME IS MORE ALABAMA NURSES, BETTER PATIENT CARE, AND A HEALTHIER ALABAMA.BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATIONTo learn more about the New Generation of Nurses Fund or to donate scan here.
ARTICLE TITLE HEREA GREAT TIME FOR A GREAT CAUSEFUNDRAISING EVENTSWINE WOMEN & SHOES BIRMINGHAM$191,320Wine Women & Shoes has become an elite event in the Birmingham community and brings women together around fine wine, great shopping, incredible auctions, and a cause that matters.To learn more about our events or how to become a sponsor scan here.
Annual team member giving campaign providing team members the opportunity to give where the need is greatest and support both the Patient Assistance Fund (PAF) and the Employee Benevolence Fund (EBF). BAPTIST HEALTH BROOKWOOD HOSPITAL CHAPELCLAY SHOOT AT PURSELL FARMS presented by Robins & Morton$69,000TEAM MEMBER GIVING$82,368Our longest running fundraiser, now at the beautiful Pursell Farms, allows for more opportunities to support the philanthropic mission of Baptist Health Foundation through clay shooting, outdoor activities, and auctions.
2024 NET ASSETSTOTAL NET ASSETS $41 MThese funds have been given for a specific program or cause at BHF and can only be spent as purposed by the donor.These funds have been given for a specific program or purpose at BHF. The donor specified the funds to be held in perpetuity and only investment earnings spent annually.PROGRAM RESTRICTED FUNDSThese funds have no donor restrictions and can be used at the complete discretion of the BHF board.UNRESTRICTED FUNDS$32,688,483UNRESTRICTED FUNDSPROGRAM RESTRICTED FUNDSPROGRAM ENDOWMENTFUNDSPROGRAM ENDOWMENT FUNDSOther$199,048Patient Assistance$1,254,911Pastoral Care$879,333Education Opportunities$1,431,410Employee Support$527,650Patient Assistance$26,941,889Pastoral Care$2,948,007Employee Support $187,341Education Opportunities $2,611,246$4,292,352PROGRAMRESTRICTED FUNDSPROGRAM ENDOWMENT FUNDSBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
PROGRAM RESTRICTED FUNDSUNRESTRICTED FUNDSPROGRAM ENDOWMENT FUNDSCONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVEDINCLUDING SPECIAL EVENTS, NETPRIOR YEAR $2,848,741 ACTUAL $4,573,902BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION
THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS$100,000 and above$10,000 to $99,999Baptist Health SystemBlue Cross Blue Shield of AlabamaBrookwood Baptist HealthThe Dwight Beeson Charitable TrustTenet Healthcare CorporationThe Lucille Beeson Charitable TrustJim & Sherri Foyt Hueytown Area Chamber of CommerceJefferson State Community CollegeMaynard NexsenMercedes Benz of BirminghamOrlando Health Inc.Regions BankRobins & MortonJenny SneedShelby County Community Health FoundationStephens FoundationSusan Mott Webb Charitable TrustThe Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamThe Hackney FoundationThe Harold & Regina Simon Charitable TrustWilliam Ireland Sr. Family FundJohn D. and Dolphine D. Jones Charitable Trust Cooper Family FoundationWarren Baker Crow IVWillard Leo DeanThe Stella White Charitable TrustEpic Systems CorporationGlenn & Pam EubanksSince 1967, the Baptist Health Foundation has operated as a faith-based 501(c)3 that positively impacts the lives of Baptist Health System’s affiliated hospitals’ patients, families, employees, and communities through compassionate projects and charitable support that meet our criteria. One hundred percent of the funds we raise are used to provide financial support for qualified patients, education for medical professionals, monetary aid for employees in need, pastoral care for patients and their families, and community-based wellness programs.
FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF DONORS PLEASE SEE THE ONLINE VERSION OF OUR ANNUAL REPORT.$2,500 to $9,999Suzy HarrisSherri HickmanHoar ConstructionJohnson DevelopmentJohn L. JonesKim LepleyDaniel ListiB.J. McKay-KossowAshley MendelsohnEileen MeyerMorrison Management Specialists, Inc.Norman, Wood, Kendrick & TurnerPNC BankNothing Bundt CakesKim Reaves PaisleyAvani PatelPoole & Company Architects, LLC.Amy PooleLindsay PuckettMegan RandolphReimagined Parking (dba Lanier Parking)Taura RushTheresa RyalsJennifer SandersAlison Decker ScottJulie SegarsTRO Jung | Brannen, Inc.Richard M. TubbVulcan Materials Company FoundationJan WareWarren Averett Companies, LLCAshley WerchanowskyjRegina H. YarbroughDawn ZinkAlabama Grocers AssociationAlabama Small Business DevelopmentAmy S. AllenJennine BakerSol BishopBluSky Restoration Contractors, LLCBradley Arant Rose & White LLPBrasfield & Gorrie, Inc.Elizabeth BrasherLaura Brooks BrightJeris BurnsCadence BankRagan D. CainBrooke CarterJeremy & Amanda ClarkCharlotte ColemanKathryn CoxCrothall Environmental ServicesCrothall Healthcare, Inc. (Transportation)Holly DeanLisa DeAraujoAngela DixonDoster Construction Company, Inc.EBS Services LLCMichael J. EvansEmily FerkingFoundation CapitolCleo Kathryn GormanCassandra GreerCorvan GreerJeff GreerGunn DermatologyRebecca HabermannHaley and Woods, LLPElizabeth Harkins BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION