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💙 Thank you to the Caring Foundation of Texas and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas for organizing an exceptional event this past Sunday. All proceeds from the event were directed towards funding life-saving preventive healthcare initiatives provided by CFT. I would also like to express my gratitude to my BCBSTX colleague and friend, Miss Lorrie Lacko, for inviting me to be a part of this meaningful occasion and for facilitating my involvement with this remarkable foundation. Numerous families throughout Texas encounter obstacles in accessing the preventive healthcare they require. These challenges often include financial constraints, transportation issues, and lack of time. Women and children are disproportionately affected by these barriers. The Caring Foundation of Texas addresses these challenges by collaborating with organizations, educational institutions, non-profits, and government entities to bring medical services directly into communities where they are needed most. This initiative enables many adults and children to obtain essential preventive care necessary for leading healthy, fulfilling lives. Preventive healthcare is vital for laying a strong health foundation for our children's futures. CFT passionately advocates for community service and strives to provide preventive healthcare resources across our regions. If you wish to support CFT’s efforts, please contact their headquarters in Richardson at: 🧡 Caring Foundation of Texas 💚 1001 E. Lookout Drive Richardson, TX 75082 (866) 806-SHOTS (7468) https://lnkd.in/gwdjF-7Q All services offered by the Texas Care Van program are free for those who qualify. Since its inception in 1997, over 1.4 million immunizations have been administered to more than 2.5 million individuals, along with over 450,000 dental services provided to children since 2008. 💙 #healthcare #texas

🔥Join the next #TTSEducation webinar series: The Roles of Allied Health Professionals in Deceased Donation. Expert panel🗣️ Farida Younan, Estephan Arredondo Córdova, Luc Colenbie, Cassandra Raios, Ana López-Lazcano Join 👉 https://lnkd.in/gVRWYaaB 🗓️ May 7, 8 am (ET) Learning Objectives ✔ 1. Be familiar with the range of roles that allied health professionals may play in deceased organ donation worldwide: nursing, social workers, psychologists and physiotherapis role. 2. Describe the potential benefits of including allied health professionals in multidisciplinary deceased donation care. 3. Discuss potential barriers and solutions for effective engagement with allied health professionals in organ donation.

There's no doubt that we need more investment in Palliative and End of Life Care services in this country, of course including hospices as a key provider. I find the term "hospice care" confusing. There is no single definition in the UK, and different hospices (ie charitable providers of Palliative and End of Life Care services) provide different things. Many people aspire to receiving care from a hospice at the end of their life but I'm not convinced they really know what this means. Generally hospices focus on providing Specialist Palliative Care to dying people/families with the most complex needs, but they also often provide advice or education to the many other providers caring for people with less complex needs. A huge amount of care for people in their last year or so of life is actually provided by other health and social care professionals eg GPs, Geriatricians, District Nurses, Care Homes etc, receiving additional support if needed from Specialist Palliative Care Services (sometimes provided by charitable hospices, sometimes by NHS Specialist Palliative Care teams depending on what's available in a given area). As non-NHS organisations, hospices can choose where to locate themselves (often decided many years ago by local philanthropists) and what services to provide. They may or may not provide inpatient care, community care, outpatients, education etc. For this reason the focus on equity in the new HUK strategy is very welcome. There are also many purely NHS funded Specialist Palliative Care services providing similar things which aren't called hospices and therefore don't fall under the Hospice UK umbrella. Hospices are certainly key players in the palliative and end of life care ecosystem, with their charitable status allowing them the independence and flexibility to provide a higher standard of care than might be possible with meagre government funding alone. Hopefully NHS commissioners have oversight of what services are needed where and use their scant budgets to fund provision of the services they feel are needed locally from whichever provider they feel is most appropriate - perhaps NHS, perhaps charity or other non-NHS/private provider. Please do support your local hospice, but please also support improved funding for all health and social care services looking after people in their last year of life. Hospices are hugely important but they are just one (big) piece of a complex health and social care puzzle.

The need to know about hospice. For families, the words hospice care are often met with a wave of uncertainty. As a result, we begin to ask ourselves the difficult questions. Am I giving up on my loved one? Is there more I can do? What are my alternatives? To demystify the road ahead, our team at Ethos Hospice has assembled a guide of what to expect with hospice care. https://nuvi.me/w8c4iy

Whether you're looking to optimize your existing grateful patient program or wondering where to begin, there are numerous strategies you can adopt to capitalize on and grow this population of supporters. Join our upcoming webinar on June 11th at 2 pm EST / 11 am PST with Doing Good Digital to learn how! Save your spot ➡ https://lnkd.in/gB_A-sHh #gratefulpatients #healthcarefundraising

Check out the full article below to discover how our CEO and President, Don Mueller, plans to use good business to improve the lives of children and families in our community. 🤝

Statewide, 295,000 children are eligible for subsidized child care, but only 14% (41,000) access it. Learn more in our 2023 State of the Children statewide report, out now: https://bit.ly/42u4rH9

THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE IN HOSPICE SERVICE PROVIDERS. We understand the issues seniors, physicians and families face and have developed programs to address them. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eA8mg_x #ourdifference #ourcare #hospicecare #missourihospice #kcmo #independenceMO

5 patient safety focuses to help healthcare inch close to 'zero preventable harm': The Patient Safety Movement Foundation, a non-profit based in Irvine, Calif., made up of patient safety experts and clinicians, announced five key focuses for 2024 as the organization works to create a "zero preventable harm" environment throughout the healthcare sector. http://dlvr.it/T28Cp7