NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital, Jonesboro
The NEA Baptist Charitable Foundation, the charitable arm of the NEA Baptist Health System, announced Wednesday that it has received a $1.6 million donation from Kim and Chris Fowler.
The foundation said the gift will fund a comprehensive mobile health unit in Jonesboro that will deliver care to underinsured and uninsured individuals in underserved communities in northeast Arkansas. NEA Baptist is collaborating with Odulair to produce the unit, nicknamed Big Blue, by the end of October.
Big Blue will be equipped with the technology required to perform breast cancer screenings, community health screenings, sports physicals and an in-game athletics clinic, wellness and preventative visits, vaccination clinics, pandemic rapid response and interventional resources. It will also have digital x-ray equipment, a mammography unit, lab equipment and a comfortable exam space for patients, the foundation said.
Sam Lynd, CEO and administrator at NEA Baptist, in a news release called the gift “a major step in fulfilling our vision of bringing an expert system of care to patients wherever they are.”
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