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Nonprofit Overview
Mission: Baptist health care foundation develops financial resources to support baptist health's ministry in providing the best quality healthcare services and programs to the people of south central alabama.
Programs: Baptist hospice- foundation provides operational grants to offset the cost of hospice's indigent care program.
medical outreach ministries- operational grants to non-profit clinic that serves as a medical home for unusual patients whose household income does not exceed 200% of the national poverty level.
4c) neonatal intensive care unit - baptist medical center south (bmcs) and baptist medical center east (bmce) together create the regional neonatal intensive care unit (r-nicu) of baptist health, which is one of five regional units in the state. Bmce has a daily census of 21 infants and recently unveiled their expanded nicu. The addition cost an estimated $2 million, $500,000 of which was donated by the baptist health care foundation. In 1998, bmcs increased its bed capacity from 26 to 40 beds, which accommodates approximately 33 distressed infants daily. Furthermore, in an effort to comfort mothers, nicu is equipped with "room-in" quarters where mothers can receive personal training and assistance from nurses, as it relates to the care of their new infants.
provide nursing and allied health scholarships and operating/capital grants to baptist health entities. Examples are grants to the neonatal unit and life line program. Foundation furthers the tax exempt purpose of baptist health.