JOI Community Involvement
JOI has actively partnered with local outreach organizations here in North Florida, including the Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless, the Patrick Heinold Foundation, and the Police Athletic League.
A very special Thank You to Trevor and Marissa Lawrence for their participation in our JOI Super Bowl Commercial for 2022.
To watch a Video from The Patrick Heinold Foundation about mental health awareness, please go to this LINK.
JOI Community Involvement News
Last July, Brianna Taylor (JOI Rehab intake coordinator) lost her younger sister, Sarah, to cancer. Sarah loved Stuffed Animals! To honor Sarah on what would have been her 21st birthday, JOI staff members were invited to bring in stuffed animals to donate to Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital in Sarah’s honor. The response was OVERWHELMING !!
Thank you, Brianna, for letting your JOI family be a part of honoring your sister in this sweet way!
Donations for a charity
The Jacksonville Orthopaedic Institute Physicians and ATC’s also donate countless hours of time in our Sports Medicine Program. Through this program they cover local high school and middle school athletics and other community athletic events. We are so proud of our Sports Medicine volunteers who give their time back to the community in which we live. It is important to volunteer your time to a cause that you believe in! We could always use some help!
Who We Serve
Through our community involvement, JOI pays for meals at the Sulzbacher Center. Employees also volunteer their time to go over to the center and actually prepare and cook the meal. JOI Physicians and Staff members also volunteer at the Hearts to Soles Event at the Sulzbacher Center on November 23, 2019. JOI will be collecting socks to provide them with the shoes which are donated for this event.
JOI recently added the Patrick Heinold Foundation as one of our beneficiaries. Teen suicide is on the rise across the nation. The data appeared in The Journal of Pediatrics, and comes from poison control centers. A study finds the rate of poisoning attempts more than doubled among boys and girls.
Participants of the 2023 Patrick Heinold Foundation Tournament
Referees and Volunteers for the 2023 Patrick Heinold Foundation
There is no single cause to suicide. It most often occurs when stressors exceed current coping abilities of someone suffering from a mental health condition.
If you want to read more about Suicide Risk Factors and Warning Signs
JUST 1 is a program that our JOI Certified Athletic Trainers developed at our local high schools to try to save or help JUST 1 young adult from taking their own life. Our trainers provide first aid on a daily basis, now they can also provide mental health first aid to these same students. To learn more, go to youth-mental-health-first-aid/.
If you need help and need someone to talk to, please call:
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-TALK (8255) or
Baptist Behavioral Health
Services: Outpatient, Adult Day Stay and Inpatient Services
https://www.baptistjax.com/services/behavioral-health
24 hour Crisis Line: 904-202-7900
Go To: HERE TOMORROW or Call (904) 372-9087
For more information about the Mental Health First Aid Training, go to: Baptist
Our mission is to inspire others to help the community in which we live and work. The employees of JOI have designated these four foundations to work with and to donate our time and monetary funds to because we believe together we can make a difference in the North Florid Region.
If you want to help, please call 904-848-7045!
New Patient Appointment Line: 904-564-2000, Fax: 904-996-9412 or schedule online.
To schedule follow-up appointments or cancel and reschedule appointments, please go to the Patient Portal.
Our Partners
The Patrick Heinold Foundation Logo
Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless
HERE’S A SAMPLING OF COMMUNITY IMPACT:
Breast Cancer Awareness Fund Raising
JOI collection of socks for the Sulzbacher Center. You can donate socks at any of the JOI locations.
- Collecting fuzzy bears for Baptist’s Buddy Check breast cancer program with partner WTLV-TV2
- Walking for juvenile diabetes, arthritis, MS or Heart Walk to raise funds to find a cure for disease
- Physicians “on air” on local television or radio stations giving sports medicine tips
- Physicians participating in the We Care organization giving free medical care to those in need
- Physicians volunteering hours of “on the field” at PAL, the Arena or at area high schools with professional and local athletes
- Presenting orthopaedic subjects and offering clinics of interest to members and guests at the local YMCAs or 1st Place Sports and at other community based forums.
- Certified Athletic Trainers participating in Mental Health First Aid Programs and volunteering Sports Medicine coverage for the 3×3 Basketball Fundraiser.
- Sponsoring and participating in the annual WJCT-Baptist “Speaking of Women’s Health”
- Helping to found Jacksonville Sports Medicine Program and being a vital part of this community organization dedicated to helping our young athletes
- JOI physicians and staff working the Saturday before Thanksgiving for the past ten years at The Sulzbacher Center where they welcome clients, wash and examine their feet, put on new warm socks and fit new shoes for the holidays as a major service to “give back”
- JOI Rehab provides Certified Athletic Trainers to area high schools at no cost, and many physicians are “team” sports medicine docs to provide medical support to youth athletics
- JOI physicians being honored annually by Jacksonville Business Journal for being “Health Care Heroes” for good work nationally and internationally: Dr’s. Steinberg (2014), Kaplan (2013), Lucie (2012)
- Annual Participation in the Mutt March Fundraiser for the Jacksonville Humane Society.
- Annual Sponsor of the PAL Football Camp for 500 kids.
- Annual Meal Sponsor and volunteer cooks and servers at the Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless. JOI has also been involved with many supply, clothes and shoe drives for the center.
- Annual Breast Cancer Awareness, Bake Sale and T-Shirts Sales for the Buddy Check Foundation and the Buddy Check Bus.
Toy Drive For Sulzbacher Center
JOI is a lifelong partner in the community with nonprofits and community organizations because they, like Baptist Health, work together to change people’s lives – it’s a lifelong relationship between with the community.