COMMUNITY BENEFIT SNAPSHOT
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Alaska's health
A tiny miracle made a little sweeter with help
from Providence Alaska Children's Hospital
Melissa Webber, Tyrel Williams and
their daughter, Poppy, who spent
28 days in the Newborn Intensive
Care Unit at Providence Alaska
Children's Hospital.
Total benefit
to our
communities
in 2022
$95 MILLION
Caring for our communities has never been more
important. To achieve our vision of health for a better
world, we work closely with our community partners
to ensure we address the communities' most
pressing needs.
Building a stable community
Pictured are (L-R) Christiana Smith, president of the Seward Homeless Connection, Clara Brown, and
Frances Azzad Smith, vice president of the Seward Homeless Connection. The Seward Homeless
Connection helps people like Clara with rent and utility assistance in lean times. It also provides
vouchers for showers, supplies and equipment needed to work, and assists residents in accessing public
assistance. This program is funded in part with $10,000 in Providence's community partnership funding,
provided through Providence Alaska Foundation.
Melissa Webber and husband, Tyrel
Williams, were like any new, expectant
parents. At 32 weeks pregnant that
changed.
"All of a sudden I've become a high-risk
pregnancy," Webber said.
Poppy Williams weighed 3 pounds, 5
ounces at birth and spent the first 28
days of her life in the Newborn Intensive
Care Unit at Providence Alaska Children's
Hospital.
"Her biggest thing was that she needed
to grow and learn to eat," Webber said. "It
took a couple of weeks."
They knew the long stay at the hospital
could be expensive, but it had been an
emergency, and surely their insurance
would cover most of the expenses.
That didn't happen.
Providence's financial assistance
program stepped in with charity
care, which helps reduce or eliminate
the costs of care for those in need.
Providence Alaska provided $18.5 million
in free and discounted care for the
uninsured and underinsured in 2022.
It helped meet the needs of the Webber-
Williams family by assisting them with
the costs of care not just for Poppy 's
hospital stay, but also Webber's.
"The team at Providence was amazing,
and everything they did worked. You'd
do anything for your child, and we can't
thank them enough," Webber said.
