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

FROM THE DESK OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Our Wonderful Volunteers

Johnnie Bennett

Rose Marie Davis

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

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Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy

The Ozanam Prescription J a n u a r y 2 0 1 5

Filling prescriptions for those who cannot afford their medicine

Inside Stories

Holiday Luncheon 2

O’Daly’s 3

Sister Marilyn 3

Agency Training 3

Exalte’ Magazine 4

Annual Report Enclosed

Last fiscal year our vol-

unteers donated 6608

hours in order to fill the

prescriptions of those

who can't afford their

medication.

The students have

discovered

redundancies and

even potentially

lethal

combinations in

the patients

treatments.

Christmas is a special time of year at Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy. While the spirit of helping others rings true every day of the year inside the walls of the pharmacy, Christmas brings an extra special feeling of joy for the staff and volunteers. An Ozanam tradition is the annual Christmas luncheon and this year’s was the best we have had yet. The staff, volunteers and board members gathered at the Red Cross on Sage Ave. to share a meal and holiday cheer

together. Every year at the luncheon, Ozanam’s Board of Directors presents the Jonathan Gardberg Community Leadership Award to an individual or organization that has helped the pharmacy out in the past year. This

year's recipients of the Jonathan Gardberg Community Leadership Award are the St. Francis Episcopal Church Women and the Pleasant Valley Opportunity Club. This award is named after Mr. Jonathan Gardberg because

Gardberg exemplifies the spirit of the pharmacy’s namesake, Frederic Ozanam. Like Ozanam, the founder of the Society of St. Vincent De Paul, Gardberg is an attorney who helps the sick and disabled with his social security and veterans disability practice. Besides helping with fundraising for the pharmacy, Gardberg helped to establish the agency's first newsletter and directs those who are in need of medication to the

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.

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.

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 busi-nesses 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 Ozanam Prescription

(From Left) Joy Gardberg, Christine Cumbie, Ozanam Board

Member, Shearie Archer, Ozanam Executive Director, and

Johnathan Gardberg

(From Left) Diane Hall receives the Gardberg Community

Leadership Award for the St. Francis Episcopal Church

Women. Also pictured (from left) Johnathan Gardberg, and

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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 SAYS GOODBYE TO LONGTIME PARTNER

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.

OZANAM HOSTS ANNUAL AGENCY CONFRENCE

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!

BEAR HUNTING WITH OZANAM AT O’DALY’S

Volunteer Profile

Johnnie Bennett is one of Ozanam Charitable Phar-macy’s wonderful volun-teers. Johnnie comes to

Ozanam through the Goodwill Easter Seals Ma-

ture Worker Program. Johnnie has been working with Ozanam since March 2014, and every morning the staff and other volun-teers get a warm welcome from Johnnie. Johnnie has a background working as a clerk for the City of Mo-bile and her skills seam-lessly transferred to help-ing out at the front desk of the pharmacy. In July, she got her pharmacy techni-cian 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 John-nie and Ozanam’s partner-ship with Goodwill Easter

Seals, we would not be able to serve the communi-

ty through prescription assistance.

Volume 1 Issue 15

Johnnie Bennett (left)

(From Left) AmeriCorps VISTA’s

Chris Chambers, Victoria Davis and

Clarissa Phalo at the O’Dalys Event.

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Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy

571 Dauphin St.

Mobile, AL 36602

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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.

Phone: (251) 432-4111

Fax: (251) 432-4119

Email: info@ozanampharmacy.org

Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy is a proud Catholic Charities organization. Please support Catholic Charities.

Ozanam Charitable Pharmacy was

recently featured in Exalte’ Maga-

zine: the Gulf Coast’s only philan-

thropy through fashion magazine.

The spread, entitled “Angels on Dau-

phin Street,” features the women of

Ozanam in all their glamor. The

shoot ran in their December issue

and can be seen on

exaltemagazine.com Remember that you can always donate to Oza-nam Charitable Pharmacy in remembrance of a

friend or loved one. All you have to do is fill out the appropriate information on the enclosed dona-

tion 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.

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