2020/2021 Community Impact Report

As we are navigating the third year of COVID-19, I am humbled to think of the ways that AtlantiCare has remained a constant pillar of health, hope, and healing for our community. I am tremendously proud of the life-saving care delivered across AtlantiCare over the past two years – care reflected in AtlantiCare’s COVID mortality rate, which outperformed the national average as reported by the CDC. These are the lives of our friends, family members, colleagues, and neighbors. It is reflected, too, in other, immeasurable ways: patients kept out of the hospital because they were vaccinated at the Atlantic County COVID-19 Vaccination Megasite, whose lives we can attribute to our forward-looking Emergency Management and Procurement teams, and to exemplary collaboration with federal, state, and local agencies. Vaccine and testing clinics across our service area - at AtlantiCare Primary Care Plus offices and AtlantiCare Urgent Care Centers, and at pop-up sites across the five counties we serve, including those at schools, casinos, community organizations, and homeless

shelters – offered further ways for our community to access information and protection. I am extremely grateful for our AtlantiCare family, who have shown tireless dedication to holding each other up through these challenging times. The countless sacrifices of AtlantiCare employees and their families have enabled us to live our commitment to our core values, to deliver health and healing to all through trusting relationships. No less remarkable is the commitment that we have seen reflected back. The outpouring of gratitude – from roadside signs to homemade masks, from handwritten thank-you cards to meals, food donations, and donations of medical supplies when supplies were low and fears were high – has astounded us all. Our community’s support to AtlantiCare’s COVID-19 response provided our staff with hope and optimism. The generosity you have shown in your financial gifts has allowed us to keep going – to protect our frontline staff, to continue to offer life-saving and life-changing care to patients in the face of COVID surges, and to continue to plan for AtlantiCare’s future. Thank you for your continued support and for the trust you place in us. As we look to the future needs of our community, we are excited to commence our $75 million Mainland Expansion project. The project broke ground in March 2022, and will add 50 private rooms to our Mainland Campus, including a new Intensive Care Unit, increased negative pressure capacity, and bedside dialysis capabilities. Construction on our Ohio Avenue Medical Arts Pavilion will be completed in the fall

of 2022, and we look forward to the enhanced and expanded services slated to be housed there, including family medicine, dialysis services and dedicated programs for women and children. This is in addition to dedicated medical education facilities and simulation labs that will help provide training for the practitioners and health care leaders of tomorrow. As we look forward and reflect on lessons learned, I am confident that AtlantiCare will continue to provide the highest quality of care despite the challenges. I know that we have a true partner in you, our community. Whatever the future may bring, there is confidence that we can and will face it together.

Be well,

Lori Herndon, RN, BSN, MBA President & CEO, AtlantiCare

Gary L. Hanson Lori S. Herndon, Ex-Officio Robert A. Himmelstein Robert Hordes, Chairman

Neil P. McPeak Alexander Onopchenko, M.D. Fabio R. Orozco, M.D. Johanna Perskie, Vice Chairman

Paul Pullia T. Eric Reich Maureen C. Shay Sulin Yao, M.D.

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