From the time MHM was founded, the organization has focused its healthcare services, programming and public policy initiatives on serving the least served in our communities- low-income families and the uninsured. MHM is proud to partner with organizations that share this mission, and that are successfully delivering healthcare and social services to this population in their respective communities throughout South Texas. The single-overarching goal in creating these partnerships is to increase access to healthcare for those whom are least served; by strengthening other organizations' capacity to provide those services, we achieve that goal.
Since its inception, MHM has provided more than $405 million in healthcare services through its clinics and programs, as well as through our partnerships, and has the unique distinction of being the largest private funding source for community health care to low-income families and the uninsured in South Texas.
In 2011, MHM announced plans to significantly boost its efforts to create greater access to care for the least served through an unprecedented $60 million in operations and services offered through charitable clinics and programs it owns and operates, as well as through grants awarded to its partners throughout South Texas. This is an increase of 23 percent from the $48 million MHM expended in 2010.
The $60 million includes $20 million in grants awarded to organizations in Bexar County and throughout South Texas that share MHM's mission, and $40 million in its own operations which include the Wesley Health & Wellness Center, serving San Antonio's South side; the Bishop Ernest T. Dixon Jr. Clinic, serving San Antonio's growing East side; and two School Based Health Centers in Schertz and Marion.
MHM also recently contributed one-half of the purchase price of the new Methodist Texsan Hospital with its equal partner HCA, who together also co-own the Methodist Healthcare System—the largest provider of health services in the region. The funds MHM put up to purchase Methodist Texsan are in addition to the $60 million budgeted for operations, outreach and grants in 2011.
MHM invested $35.7 million to increase access to healthcare in South Texas, including $9 million in funding through our partnerships. Click here for a map of our programs/partnerships service areas.
While there are many institutions that are providing critical healthcare programming in our service area, we partner with a select few whose missions and services fit within MHM's organizational objectives, set forth by the board of directors.
As a result, we do not accept unsolicited proposals for funding.
