In addition to funding our extensive Grief Support and Music Therapy programs, it is your support that directly provides our patients the non-reimbursed treatments and medications that are crucial to their comfort, and offers hospice care for families without insurance or the ability to pay.
Carl, a middle-aged man with metastasized cancer, wants to go on hospice care at home. He wants to get relief from his symptoms, spend his remaining time at home with his wife and children and make sure they get the emotional and grief support they need. To relieve the intense pain caused by the size of his tumor, he needs to continue radiation treatments. Yet, they are not covered under his insurance policy's hospice benefit. Thanks to our donors, we are able to admit him and patients like him who need complex treatments for comfort, such as radiation, chemotherapy, transfusions and IV medications. Many hospices, without our "open access" approach to care, simply would not admit Carl.
The Robinsons, a family with no medical insurance or resources, needs our care for their 12-year-old child who has cancer. Thanks to our donors, we are able to provide charitable care for this family, offering expert medical care and comfort for their son and the emotional and spiritual support their whole family needs.
Miriam, an elderly woman in an independent living facility, has developed difficulty breathing. Each and every hour it makes her uncomfortable, interrupts her sleep and causes her great emotional distress. She needs treatments to ease her breathing, but the medications are not covered under her hospice diagnosis. Your donations are used to provide these medications, giving her welcome relief.
Sharon is grieving the loss of her husband, who recently died from Alzheimer's. After 50 years of marriage and 10 years of caregiving, Sharon feels lost. Miles away from her adult children, she struggles with managing the intensity of her emotions, getting adequate sleep, and finding the hope that life can one day be good again. Your donations help to provide bereavement counseling for people like Sharon so that they can better cope with the challenges of losing a loved one.
These are just four stories of the thousands each year, as families are cared fro by Hospice of Palm Beach County. "As a not-for-profit hospice, our philosophy is simple to do whatever it takes to offer everyone in our community the comfort, compassion and dignity they need during their final months. Thanks to your support, we can make that possible," explained Greg Leach, president of Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation. "We are so very grateful for our donors and the many good people who support our events and resale shops. Your generosity means so much for families at their time of greatest need."
THE IMPACT OF YOUR DONATIONS...
- For $15 per day, we can provide medication for one patient.
- For $155 per day, we can provide end-of-life care to one indigent patient.
- For $175 we can provide in-home assistance for one 8-hour day for one caregiver.
- For $250 we can buy a guitar for one of our music therapists.
- For $300 per day, we can provide one day of palliative chemotherapy for a patient.
- For $375 we can send one grieving child to Camp SeaStar.
As the fundraising arm of Hospice of Palm Beach County, the Hospice of Palm Beach County Foundation is an independent, 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with its own staff and board of directors. The Foundation raises funds through special events and donations of all kinds.
