Disaster Readiness
When the next disaster strikes the Mobile area, the Mobile Mental Health consumers that reside in group homes will find more than adequate protection from the storm thanks to a $150,000 grant from Volunteer Mobile and the Bush-Clinton Fund.
Mobile Mental Health will purchase two generators with the funds. One will support BayPointe, which has served as an emergency shelter for MMH consumers for five years, and a second generator will support MMH’s administrative offices and computer system.
“The mental health of Mobile Mental Health’s group home residents makes public shelters unsuitable for them,” Mobile Mental Health CEO Tuerk Schlesinger, said, referring to MMH’s group home residential consumers. “BayPointe, our hospital and residential facility in west Mobile, will now have an adequate and dependable electrical power source thanks to this generous grant.”
During a crisis, MMH coordinates emergency efforts between its consumers, healthcare providers, the community and other agencies. “These emergency coordination efforts are headquartered at MMH’s administrative offices,” Schlesinger said. “With the generators, we will be able to better protect our consumers and, at the same time, be able to access the electronic consumer medical records where critical consumer information is stored.”
More than 400 MMH consumers reside in group homes. During a disaster, the residents that have no other safe place to go will be housed at the shelter provided at BayPointe.
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Established in 1957, Mobile Mental Health plans and facilitates a comprehensive healthcare system
that
promotes the wellness and recovery of children, adolescents, adults, and senior
adults living with
mental illness, substance abuse and mental retardation. |
