Volume 1 Issue 15
Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy
January 2015
The Ozanam Prescription
Filling prescriptions for those who cannot afford their medicine
Our Wonderful Volunteers
Johnnie Bennett
Rose Marie Davis
FROM THE DESK OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Waudine Easley
Amber Gaillard
Marlena Kelley
Marion Loftin
Hellen “Cookie” Mellon
Lillian Phann
Summer Ranaldson
Clifton Shaw
Anne Singleton
Nelson Summerlin
Aundraneka Vaughn
David Wancowicz
Cathy Whelton
Auburn University Harrison
School of Pharmacy Interns
Last fiscal year our volunteers donated 6608
hours in order to fill the
prescriptions of those
who can't afford their
medication.
Inside Stories
Holiday Luncheon 2
O’Daly’s
3
Sister Marilyn
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Agency Training
3
Exalte’ Magazine
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Annual Report
Enclosed
Dear Friends,
First and foremost, I would like to thank all of our wonderful donors for helping us to keep our doors open to serve
the most vulnerable citizens of Alabama. Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy is always a busy place and last year was no
exception. Between Oct. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2014 Ozanam helped 1668 patients with 34,065 generic prescriptions.
Without the help of Ozanam, our patients would have had to pay $894,405, at a retail pharmacy, to supply
themselves with their medication. These patients do not have enough money to feed themselves and afford their
medications, which forces them to choose between food feeding and
medicine: a choice that would most likely end in death. Ozanam’s Access
Your Rx Program was able to connect our patients with $648,261 in brand
name medications and insulins. Without the help of Ozanam, our patients
would have had to spend over $1.5 million to keep themselves healthy and
able to support their families. None of our patients would have been able to
afford their medications at the retail price because they are uninsured and
often working multiple part time jobs just to keep food on the table. While
the number of prescriptions dispensed is impressive, none of this would
have been possible without the help of our wonderful volunteers and staff
members. Without the help of our 16 volunteers that donate time out of their
busy schedules to help with the day to day operations of the pharmacy, we
would be unable to help all of our clients. In addition to those volunteers, we
have countless others that help by serving on fundraising committees and
developing the resources to make the work of the pharmacy possible.
With a new year comes the officer elections of the Ozanam Charitable
Pharmacy Board of Directors. Wiley Christian was re-elected to third term
as the President. Serving alongside Mr. Christian for her third term is Mrs.
Cathy Whelton, who helps by volunteering in the pharmacy two days a
week. Mrs. Marcia Allan has passed the pen to Mrs. Linda Grayson as the
new board secretary and Susan Herring, remains as Treasurer. In the past year Mr. Michael G. Molyneux, President
of Symbol Health Solutions has joined the board of directors at Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy. Mr. Molyneux brings
a wealth of knowledge and experience working in the health field for many years. All of the board members have
contributed in different ways, and each contribution helps the pharmacy greatly.
Last year, Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy received a $65,000 grant from the Community Foundation of South
Alabama for a Pharmacy Residency Program. Ozanam welcomed Dr. Derrick Bradley, a graduate of Xavier
University of Louisiana. Besides an impressive academic background, Dr. Bradley aided in addressing health
literacy issues at the Daughters of Charity in New Orleans. After a year of working with the patients at Ozanam, Dr.
Bradley has moved onto a bright future in the world of pharmacy. While, Ozanam was unable to secure the funding
to continue the residency program, Dr. Bradley continues to help the pharmacy with outreach to the community.
Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy has also welcomed in the AmeriCorps VISTA program in order to help build the
financial stability of the pharmacy. AmeriCorps is very similar to the Peace Corps, but it is on home soil. Unlike the
rest of the Corporation for National Service, VISTAs (Volunteers In Service To America) are tasked to create
programs and events to fundraise, rather than directly serve the clients of their respective host agencies. The VISTAs
arrived in late July and have hit the ground running in their respective fields of expertise. The VISTA’s have begun
to fundraise, raise awareness for the pharmacy through various media outlets, and recruiting new volunteers to help
out the pharmacy. We are excited to see all of the work that the VISTAs are going to accomplish in their year of
service.
-Shearie Archer, Executive Director of Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy
The Ozanam Prescription
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HOLIDAY LUNCHEON AND GARDBERG AWARD
On March 5, 2015 Ozanam is
hosting the 1st Annual Gala at
the Mobile Carnival Museum.
This event will feature, Mardi
Gras cuisine from local businesses and a silent auction of
items that you will not want to
miss. This is a great way to get
some more use out of that
outfit you bought for the Mardi
Gras balls. Tickets are $50 per
person and all of the proceeds
support the life-saving work of
Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy.
Stay tuned for more details.
The students have
discovered
redundancies and
even potentially
lethal
combinations in
the patients
treatments.
year's recipients of the
Christmas is a special time of together.
Jonathan Gardberg
Every year at the luncheon,
year at Ozanam Charitable
Pharmacy. While the spirit of Ozanam’s Board of Directors Community Leadership
Award are the St. Francis
presents the Jonathan
helping others rings true
Episcopal Church Women
Gardberg Community
every day of the year inside
and the Pleasant Valley
Leadership Award to an
the walls of the pharmacy,
Opportunity Club.
individual or organization
Christmas brings an extra
that has helped the pharmacy This award is named after Mr.
special feeling of joy for the
Jonathan Gardberg because
out in the past year. This
staff and volunteers. An
Gardberg exemplifies
Ozanam
the spirit of the
tradition is
pharmacy’s namesake,
the annual
Frederic Ozanam. Like
Christmas
Ozanam, the founder of
luncheon and
the Society of St.
this year’s
Vincent De Paul,
was the best
Gardberg is an attorney
we have had
who helps the sick and
yet. The
disabled with his social
staff,
security and veterans
volunteers
disability practice.
and board
Besides helping with
members
fundraising for the
gathered at
pharmacy, Gardberg
the Red
helped to establish the
Cross on
agency's first newsletter
Sage Ave. to
(From Left) Joy Gardberg, Christine Cumbie, Ozanam Board
and directs those who
share a meal
Member, Shearie Archer, Ozanam Executive Director, and
are in need of
and holiday
Johnathan Gardberg
medication to the
cheer
pharmacy.
An informational video, that
was created by one of our
own AmeriCorps VISTA’s,
about the work of the
pharmacy premiered for
everyone to see. The video
features the staff of Ozanam
explaining the work of the
pharmacy in very simple and
easy to understand language.
You can see the video on
YouTube at https://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=K-VwzORbc1s.
(From Left) Diane Hall receives the Gardberg Community
Leadership Award for the St. Francis Episcopal Church
Women. Also pictured (from left) Johnathan Gardberg, and
A special thank you to Chef
Rob who catered the event
with his delicious spread of
Chicken, Macaroni and
Cheese, Beef Tips, Rice and
Collard Greens.
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OZANAM SAYS GOODBYE TO LONGTIME PARTNER
Our dedicated partner, Providence
Hospital has set up a fund to
establish and support the Sister
Marilyn Moore CARE Center. The
center will be located on the campus
of St. Margaret's Catholic Church in
Bayou La Batre. The CARE center
will house a client navigator, social
worker and RN. These workers will
provide food, medicine and refer
clients to other agencies in order to
provide services to them.
Sister Marilyn Moore has been one
of the biggest advocates for those
people living in poverty, helping
many organizations like Ozanam
that help those who are less
fortunate. Sister Marilyn has
worked as an administrator of Allen
Memorial Home and another 10
years serving Providence Hospital
working with the poor and
vulnerable.
Sister Marilyn left big shoes to fill
at Ozanam, by bringing the
medications to the patients near
Bayou La Batre so they wouldn’t
have to find a ride to our downtown
location.
If you would like to support the
Sister Marilyn
Moore CARE
Center you
can send a
check to P.O.
Box 850429,
Mobile, AL
36685 with
Sister Marilyn
Moore in the
memo line.
Ozanam would like to thank Sister
Marilyn for her years of support and
we wish her the best in her future
work in Arkansas.
OZANAM HOSTS ANNUAL AGENCY CONFRENCE
On September 19, Ozanam
Charitable Pharmacy hosted its
annual Agency Relations
Conference at the Red Cross
building on Sage Ave. Every year
the certifying agencies, whose
clients use the pharmacy, are
retrained in the process a patient
must follow to receive help from
Ozanam. These caseworkers
travelled from the outskirts of
Ozanam’s three county service
area to be trained so that they
could, in turn, help the patients that
are unable to travel to Catholic
Social Services, next door to
Ozanam.
Over 40 case workers traveled
from as far away as Gulf Shores
and Brewton to have the staff of
Ozanam walk them through the
certification process for a patient
to use the pharmacy. When a
patient is not properly certified, it
causes a back-up at the counter and
a volunteer must walk the patient
through the paperwork. To
properly certify a patient, it takes
about 30 minutes and multiple
documents to prove that the patient
qualifies for the services Ozanam
provides. By having the patients
certified at other agencies, it frees
Ozanam’s staff and volunteers to
serve those who desperately need
their medicines.
The case workers, who had not
worked with Ozanam before,
received a full explanation of what
the pharmacy does on a daily basis
including the Medication Therapy
Management program. Through a
partnership with the Auburn
University Harrison School of
Pharmacy, 4th year pharmacy
students sit down with the patients
to discuss their disease state and
treatment. The students have
discovered redundancies and even
potentially lethal combinations in
the patients treatments.
BEAR HUNTING WITH OZANAM AT O’DALY’S
A huge thank you is in order for
our neighbors across the street,
O’Daly’s Irish Pub who hosted
our December fundraiser, “Bear
Hunting With Ozanam.”
Together we cheered the Saints
to victory and raised $1005 to
help fund the life-saving work of
the pharmacy. We all had a great
time meeting the Mobile
Generals and there was even a
raffle of Saints tickets for the
following week’s game. Thank
you to everyone who made this
event an enormous success
including our sponsors, the
Pleasant Valley Opportunity
Club and the Plateau Elks Lodge.
Matt and that staff of O’Daly’s
have shown us the true meaning
of being neighborly, you really
are great neighbors!
(From Left) AmeriCorps VISTA’s
Chris Chambers, Victoria Davis and
Clarissa Phalo at the O’Dalys Event.
Johnnie Bennett (left)
Volunteer Profile
Johnnie Bennett is one of
Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy’s wonderful volunteers. Johnnie comes to
Ozanam through the
Goodwill Easter Seals Mature Worker Program.
Johnnie has been working
with Ozanam since March
2014, and every morning
the staff and other volunteers get a warm welcome
from Johnnie. Johnnie has
a background working as a
clerk for the City of Mobile and her skills seamlessly transferred to helping out at the front desk of
the pharmacy. In July, she
got her pharmacy technician certification and now
she is able to assist back in
the pharmacy when she is
needed. “It’s a blessing,
truly a blessing to me to be
able to help our clients. It
really inspires me to see
that we are able to help so
many people everyday,
Without the help of Johnnie and Ozanam’s partnership with Goodwill Easter
Seals, we would not be
able to serve the community through prescription
assistance.
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Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy was
recently featured in Exalte’ Magazine: the Gulf Coast’s only philanthropy through fashion magazine.
The spread, entitled “Angels on Dauphin Street,” features the women of
Ozanam in all their glamor. The
shoot ran in their December issue
and can be seen on
exaltemagazine.com
Phone: (251) 432-4111
Fax: (251) 432-4119
Email: [email protected]
Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy is supported, in part, with donations and grants from Alabama
Public Health, Baldwin County Commission, Catholic Charities, the City of Mobile, Mobile
County, South Alabama Regional Planning Commission, United Way of Southwest Alabama,
the U.S. Department of Housing and Development, corporations, foundations and individuals.
Remember that you can always donate to Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy in remembrance of a
friend or loved one. All you have to do is fill out
the appropriate information on the enclosed donation envelope and place it in the mail. We will
then place your name and the name of who you
would like to remember on our website.
Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy is a proud Catholic Charities organization. Please support Catholic Charities.
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