2017 Annual Report
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Good Growth<br />
<strong>2017</strong> COMMUNITY REPORT
PEOPLE HELPED<br />
MEDICAL<br />
812<br />
HIV Care<br />
907<br />
STI Care<br />
HIV PREVENTION<br />
2193<br />
HIV Testing<br />
1058<br />
Education/Outreach<br />
227<br />
PrEP Clients<br />
THE DEN<br />
91<br />
Substance Abuse<br />
82<br />
Behavioral Care<br />
Demographic data from fiscal year <strong>2017</strong> (October 1, 2016 - September 30, <strong>2017</strong>).
FORWARD BY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER<br />
Thanks, Faithful Supporters<br />
BOARD OF<br />
DIRECTORS<br />
Thrive Alabama has been on a 30-<br />
year journey. If you are reading this,<br />
you have been on that journey<br />
with us. We started as the AIDS<br />
Action Coalition in 1988 with a<br />
dedicated group of people that<br />
wanted to help their friends and<br />
families suffering from HIV/AIDS. In<br />
those early years, we could only assist<br />
with food, rent, errands, utility bills, and too often, to help<br />
the infected die with dignity.<br />
In January of 1992, the Joe Davis Clinic was established<br />
thanks to a life insurance policy left by Joe Davis. Dr. John<br />
Dunkel volunteered, and we worked with the Alabama<br />
Department of Public Health. We also worked with a<br />
dedicated social worker from the health department who<br />
transported medications to patients in the trunk of her car.<br />
Recently, I was reminiscing with Darden Heritage from Star<br />
Market about the agonizing decisions that we had to make<br />
as board members regarding providing basic lab tests.<br />
Viral load tests were expensive and needed to be processed<br />
four times per year. Somehow, we were able to provide<br />
compassionate quality healthcare on a very slim budget.<br />
Many of you will remember coming to fundraisers in the<br />
early years when money was needed to buy a microscope<br />
or to provide transportation to children whose care<br />
happened in Birmingham.<br />
Fast forward to 2018, 30 years later, and we are still proud to<br />
provide comprehensive, compassionate, quality healthcare<br />
to our clients.<br />
We are embarking on a huge expansion to our mission, to<br />
provide healthcare for all by becoming a Federally Qualified<br />
Health Center (FQHC) Look-Alike. The reasons are many:<br />
• To reduce stigma for HIV-positive clients<br />
• To provide healthcare to uninsured, underinsured, and<br />
fully insured people in Madison County<br />
• To be sustainable in a complicated healthcare landscape<br />
In preparation for our application to become an FQHC<br />
Look-Alike, we instituted the Primary Care Pilot Program.<br />
This program allows us to provide the same high quality,<br />
evidence-based primary care that we give to our patients<br />
living with HIV to people not infected with the virus. So far,<br />
we have served more than 70 patients.<br />
Please join us this year as we add services, clients, and<br />
explore expanded facilities. Follow us on Facebook, come<br />
by for a tour, join a committee, or make a donation. You will<br />
be glad you did.<br />
Until There’s a Cure,<br />
Mary Elizabeth “Memarr” Marr, CEO<br />
Timothy S. Jackson<br />
PRESIDENT<br />
Kimberly Rucker<br />
VICE PRESIDENT<br />
Dr. Marsha Adams<br />
CHAIR, GOVERNANCE<br />
Jessica Carlton<br />
CHAIR, DEVELOPMENT<br />
Justin Gaddis<br />
CHAIR, FINANCE & AUDIT<br />
Dr. Louise O’Keefe<br />
CHAIR, SERVICES<br />
T.J. Brecciaroli<br />
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT<br />
Angie Bates<br />
Jim Donaldson<br />
Dewayne McCarver<br />
Courtney Moore<br />
Paul Pradat<br />
NON VOTING MEMBERS<br />
Mary Elizabeth Marr<br />
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER<br />
Jitesh Parmar<br />
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER<br />
Stephanie Harville<br />
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER<br />
Dr. George Lyrene<br />
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
A Virus<br />
Won’t Stop<br />
Them
PATIENT PROFILE<br />
John and Carisa<br />
Years had passed since they<br />
first dated, but John and Carisa<br />
were lucky to reconnect and<br />
rekindle their love. The couple<br />
share a home, a family, and<br />
HIV diagnoses. She has been<br />
a patient since 2007, while he<br />
came to the clinic seven years<br />
later. Both are committed to<br />
maintaining their health.<br />
“Dr. Lyrene and the staff are<br />
always very personable and really<br />
seem to care,” John says. “They<br />
are very helpful with medication<br />
and with information to stay<br />
healthy.”<br />
SERVICES RECEIVED<br />
Medical Primary Care<br />
Social Work Services<br />
Transportation<br />
Housing<br />
Tynka Robinson and Anthony Cox of Redstone Federal Credit Union join<br />
Mark Moore of Thrive Alabama to show off some of the hygiene products<br />
Redstone Federal Credit Union Charity Finders collected for our clients.<br />
PATIENT CARE<br />
Our social workers had 13,258 encounters with clients in <strong>2017</strong>. That<br />
averages out to 36 daily individual encounters.<br />
Thrive Wellness Clinic experienced a huge increase in the number of<br />
patients served in <strong>2017</strong>, nearly doubling the number of people seen<br />
for sexually transmitted infections.<br />
To maintain our high standards of care, we have:<br />
• Hired additional medical staff<br />
• Enhanced our telemedicine technology used with our clinics in<br />
Albertville and Florence<br />
• Streamlined processes to secure expedited lab results from third<br />
party vendors<br />
• Collaborated with Huntsville Hospital to integrate diagnostic<br />
labs directly into our EMR and to access diagnostic imaging and<br />
emergency room reports through the Huntsville Hospital portal<br />
• Implemented a patient portal allowing patients to access records<br />
and communicate with us through an app on their cellphone<br />
DENTAL<br />
$100,186<br />
Dental Services<br />
CO-PAYS<br />
$62,366<br />
Medication Co-pay Assistance<br />
INSURANCE<br />
$152,573<br />
Patient Insurance Payments<br />
HOUSING<br />
$27,237<br />
Housing Emergency Assistance
PrEP<br />
Protects<br />
Him
PATIENT PROFILE<br />
Michael<br />
Michael wasn’t thinking about<br />
dating following the end of a 10-<br />
year relationship. He had heard<br />
of PrEP, but it wasn’t until he saw<br />
a poster at a local bar that he<br />
decided to make an appointment<br />
and learn more. PrEP is a daily<br />
pill that protects people from<br />
HIV infection.<br />
“After learning about all the<br />
testing and follow up I was very<br />
excited and proud that we had<br />
such a clinic in our area.”<br />
“I was made to feel very<br />
welcome and respected. Erica<br />
has never made me feel like she<br />
was judging me because of my<br />
past. She listens, asks appropriate<br />
questions, and when she needs<br />
to stress her point she does so as<br />
if we were friends.”<br />
“I have encouraged friends,<br />
as well as my ex-husband, to<br />
become PrEP patients.”<br />
SERVICES RECEIVED<br />
PrEP<br />
HIV/STI testing<br />
Prevention education<br />
Thrive’s Rick Howard, center, is joined by his Phi Beta Sigma brothers<br />
Lontrell Harris and Eric Tipton to receive the toys collected by Thrive<br />
employees for the fraternity’s annual Blue Santa Drive.<br />
GRANTS<br />
The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services<br />
was awarded a new 5-year grant which enables the continuation<br />
of The Den Intensive Outpatient Program. Under the new grant, we<br />
will provide treatment to men coping with substance abuse or cooccurring<br />
disorders, with a focus on HIV/HepC prevention. People<br />
eligible for The Den include minority men who have sex with men,<br />
as well as men who identify as gay, bisexual and/or transgender.<br />
The Department of Prevention Services received its first grant to<br />
address HIV/STI/HepC prevention utilizing a community-level<br />
intervention. The objective is to reach 10,000 minority youths<br />
through counseling, testing, and referral services over five years in<br />
an effort to reduce the incidence of HIV and substance use in the<br />
Huntsville/Madison County area.<br />
BEHAVIORAL<br />
687<br />
Counseling Sessions<br />
432<br />
Psychiatric Services<br />
135<br />
Group Sessions<br />
90<br />
Alumni Sessions
He Rides<br />
for Fun<br />
Now
PATIENT PROFILE<br />
Tony<br />
Tony used to ride a bicycle<br />
around town while intoxicated.<br />
Several bikes were stolen<br />
from him. He was hit once by<br />
a motorist. But it wasn’t until<br />
he was arrested, jailed for<br />
trespassing, and found himself<br />
in the court of Judge Sybil<br />
Cleveland, that he found a road<br />
to recovery. Judge Cleveland<br />
placed Tony in Thrive Alabama’s<br />
The Den program. At first he<br />
didn’t participate fully, unsure if<br />
the program was truly for him.<br />
“I started seeing the bigger<br />
picture. It’s up to you what you<br />
want to do. I just know this is the<br />
right way. The info they give you<br />
is good.”<br />
Now employed and sober for<br />
well over a year, Tony says he<br />
doesn’t see himself going back<br />
to his old life.<br />
SERVICES RECEIVED<br />
The Den IOP<br />
Mental Health Counseling<br />
Psychiatric Services<br />
Medical Primary Care<br />
Board President Timothy Jackson was honored at the Red Ribbon<br />
Awards Breakfast hosted by Community Faith Partners on World<br />
AIDS Day <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
OUTREACH & AWARENESS<br />
The Department of Prevention Services formed a new partnership<br />
with Alabama A&M University’s Social Work Program that increases<br />
the capacity of outreach efforts. This partnership allows students to<br />
distribute success stories and other prevention materials on campus,<br />
recruit for testing events, and assist with student registration during<br />
Thrive Alabama events held on campus.<br />
We plan to become a satellite HIV rapid-testing site at Alabama A&M<br />
University. Recently, the university stopped providing rapid HIV tests<br />
inside the Student Health and Wellness Center. We are working with<br />
Administration to provide testing for students on specified days.<br />
Graduates of The Den formed an alumni aftercare group that meets<br />
multiple times per week. We also provide meeting space for a<br />
community 12-step group that gathers twice a week.<br />
Heath Nicholas and Donna Harris will present at the National Social<br />
Work Conference on HIV/AIDS in Washington, DC.<br />
2016 Community Faith<br />
Gathering Red Ribbon Award<br />
Dr. George Lyrene<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Huntsville/Madison County<br />
Chamber Small Business Awards<br />
Medical Practice of the Year<br />
Thrive Alabama<br />
<strong>2017</strong> Women Who Shape<br />
the State Honoree<br />
Mary Elizabeth Marr<br />
<strong>2017</strong> American Advertising<br />
Awards North Alabama<br />
Gold & Judge’s Choice<br />
Mark B. Moore
Your<br />
Support<br />
Matters
FUNDRAISING<br />
ThriveMobile<br />
EXPENSES<br />
• Clinic Services 41%<br />
• Support Services 30%<br />
• Prevention Education 12%<br />
• General/Administrative 12%<br />
• Awareness & Fundraising 6%<br />
REVENUE<br />
• Pharmacy Income 48%<br />
• Grants and Contracts 44%<br />
• Clinic Services 5%<br />
• Fundraising/Other 3%<br />
Through a combination of<br />
grants, fundraising events,<br />
corporate gifts, and individual<br />
donations, we raised the nearly<br />
$400,000 needed to bring<br />
mobile HIV/STI testing to North<br />
Alabama.<br />
This custom 33-foot vehicle<br />
will provide free on-the-go HIV<br />
and STI testing to people with<br />
transportation barriers in Thrive<br />
Alabama’s 12-county service<br />
area. Testing people for HIV and<br />
STIs, then quickly linking them<br />
to care, is integral in securing<br />
a healthy patient outcome and<br />
slowing the spread of HIV and<br />
STIs in our community.<br />
The ThriveMobile team will<br />
include medical and outreach<br />
professionals who will take<br />
our clinic on wheels to college<br />
campuses, health fairs, homeless<br />
shelters, and more.<br />
CORPORATE &<br />
FOUNDATIONS<br />
$50,000+<br />
Alpha Foundation<br />
Start Talking Alabama<br />
$10,000-$49,999<br />
AIDS United<br />
Huntsville Hospital Community<br />
Health Initiative<br />
$1,000-$9,999<br />
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama<br />
Church of the Nativity<br />
Curant Health<br />
The Daniel Foundation of Alabama<br />
Doc on the Spot<br />
Jerry Damson Honda Acura<br />
Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation<br />
Listerhill Credit Union<br />
Madison County Legislative Office<br />
New Jerusalem M.B. Church<br />
Redstone Federal Credit Union<br />
Sentient Research<br />
ServisFirst Bank<br />
Wells Fargo Foundation<br />
$500-$999<br />
Bryant Bank<br />
Five Stones Research Corporation<br />
Intuitive Research and Technology<br />
Heritage UMC<br />
Lanier Ford<br />
The Lioce Group<br />
Mastando & Artrip, LLC<br />
Move Digital<br />
Pileum Corporation<br />
Project XYZ, Inc.<br />
Southern States Bank<br />
System Dynamics International<br />
Samples Properties<br />
Spirit of the Cross Church<br />
U.S. Space and Rocket Center<br />
$250-$499<br />
Barnes Pharmacy<br />
Douglas M. Deason<br />
Kobler IP<br />
H.O.P.E<br />
Madison School of Massage Therapy<br />
NXTSTEP Family Law<br />
Northrop Grumman ECHO<br />
Red Ribbon Bowling Association<br />
Warren Averett<br />
INDIVIDUAL GIVING<br />
$2,000+<br />
Cindy Hutchens<br />
$1,000-$1,999<br />
Margaret Little<br />
Chuck and Cathy Miller<br />
Elizabeth Reeves<br />
Jerry Robinson<br />
Lauren Welburn<br />
$500-$999<br />
Jessica Carlton<br />
Donald Clark<br />
Helen Conover & Robert Minor<br />
Judy Link<br />
Mary Elizabeth Marr<br />
Ellen Martin<br />
JoAnn Perez<br />
Paul Pradat<br />
John Price<br />
Ali Sakhai<br />
$250-$499<br />
Mike Bass<br />
T.J. Brecciaroli<br />
Bryan Carter<br />
Edmond Dexter<br />
Tyler Englestad<br />
Carmen Fortson<br />
Glenn Grane<br />
Joni Green<br />
Vickie Henderson<br />
Timothy S. Jackson<br />
Jeffrey Johnson<br />
Brian Lampkin<br />
Shaun Mundy<br />
Travis Porter<br />
Joseph Puckett<br />
Eric Staton & David Bobenhouse<br />
Phyllis Whitt<br />
Donor data is from October 1, 2016 -<br />
September 30, <strong>2017</strong>. If corrections in<br />
our records are needed, contact us at<br />
development@thrivealabama.org.
thrivealabama.org<br />
Thrive Alabama empowers our patients to create a healthy community by providing<br />
compassionate, accessible, affordable, comprehensive care.<br />
501c3 Nonprofit Organization<br />
Federal Tax ID: 57-0889447 | CFC# 55126 | State Combined Campaign# 031490
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