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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Health
Mission: The purpose for which the corporation is organized and formed is for charitable and educational purposes to promote and advance the welfare of parrish medical center (a public non-profit corporation) (the "hospital") consistent with the goals and objectives of parrish medical center as approved by its governing board. This purpose shall be accomplished through service to parrish medical center, to the public, and in harmony with the healthcare needs of the community served by parrish medical center. The corporation as part of its charitable purposes may also make distributions to other organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
Programs: The corporation will provide volunteers to the hospital and operate the gift shop with volunteers. For the period covered by this return, there were 68,812 volunteer hours.
the corporation intends to provide scholarships to local high school and college students who will study medicine or a related health care fields. It is anticipated that approximately 20,000 scholarships will be given each year. We partner with the jess parrish medical foundation and award approximately 40,000 in scholarships each year.
the corporation will provide philips lifeline medical alert services and equipment to subscribers who require such services . The lifeline device will send a signal to a monitored call center should a user need medical assistance. The system can also detect falls. This program is staffed entirely with volunteers.
donations to other 501(c)(3)organizations.