Donations

How Can You Help?

It takes money, supplies, equipment, medications, lab tests, and lots of hard work toide first-class care to those who seek our help. Our cost to give care to one patient, including doctor's visit, x-ray, lab work and free prescriptions, is $58. That’s one-third the cost of the same visit at a private doctor's office and one-fourth of the cost of a visit to the Emergency Room.

Here are some of our urgent needs for 2008-2009:
Sponsor a patient's visit:
$58 sponsors a doctor's visit, lab work, x-rays and prescription medications.
Sponsor children's services:
$1,000 sponsors all children's medical services for one week.

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Sponsor prescription medications:
Your gift of $1,134 makes you a partner with United Way in our Pharmacy program. United Way provides annual support which covers a large portion, but not all of our pharmacy needs. Your gift of $1,134 covers all prescriptions for one week, (approximately 300 patient visits) the amount not funded by United Way.

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Diabetes Care:
LVIM has as many as 500 patients who suffer from diabetes, a costly and debilitating disease which often results in complications involving the heart, kidneys, eyes, circulatory system and nerves.

Can You Give?

• $48 sponsors one patient for one month, including glucose test strips, blood lancets, alcohol swabs and insulin syringes.
• $576 sponsors one diabetes patient for one year.
• $11,520 sponsors our Diabetes Care for the 20 patients most in need of care for one full year. Appropriate recognition will be given for a corporate or individual sponsorship of this Program.

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High Blood Pressure Care Program:
High blood pressure is experienced by approximately 15% of LVIM's patients and is responsible for illness and even death. 300 of these persons are enrolled in our High Blood Pressure Program. Our patients with hypertension have their pressure checked and receive counseling, laboratory blood work and free medications. The goal is to keep our patients' blood pressure under 140/90 by medication and lifestyle changes. By enrolling more patients in the Program, we will be helping them prevent the many serious consequences of this condition in an inexpensive way.

Can You Help These Patients?

• $85 per patient per year to join the Hypertension Program.
• $817 for 500 new patients for one week in the Program.
• $3,538 for 500 patients for one month in the Clinic.
• $42,456 to add 500 patients to the Hypertension Clinic for one full year.

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Cancer Screening:
Thanks to arrangements with cancer specialty providers, LVIM make every effort to send patients discovered to have cancer for treatment. Our need is to do a more thorough job of screening patients, most of whom have never been tested anyway.

Can You Give To Help Treat Cancer?

• $49 will screen ten men for prostate cancer.
• $80 will screen one woman for breast cancer.
• $490 will screen 100 men for prostate cancer.
• $8,000 will screen 100 woman for breast cancer.

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Dental Program:
Sixteen area dentists have offered their services at LVIM. In order to help them help our patients, they require an experienced Dental Assistant to prepare equipment and supplies and assist with patients. In part because we do not currently have a dental coordinator, our waiting list for emergency dental care is almost one year long. For those suffering with serious decay or dental abscess, that is an eternity of pain.

Can You Give for Dental Care?

• $18,000 per year will enable LVIM to hire a half-time dental coordinator/chairside assistant.

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Equipment, Supplies and Rooms
Can You Sponsor?
• Ear Microscope……………………..$3,000

Refurbish and Name The Following Rooms:
• LVIM Pharmacy……………………..$75,000 for permanent naming opportunity
• Laboratory and X Ray Suite……….$75,000 for permanent naming opportunity
• Women's Exam Room #1………….$50,000 for permanent naming opportunity
• Patient Exam Room #4…………….$50,000 for permanent naming opportunity
• Patient Exam Room #6…………….$50,000 for permanent naming opportunity
• Patient Exam Room #9…………….$50,000 for permanent naming opportunity
• Patient Exam Room #10…………...$50,000 for permanent naming opportunity

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Can you help?
Can your family or friends help?
Can your church or civic club help?
Can your employer help?

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Case Study - Dawn Sebastian

It was a routine Saturday for Dawn Sebastian. She had just prepared a meal and took a few bites when something felt terribly wrong. “All of a sudden my ears started ringing and my eye on that side felt numb. I could feel it under my ear and neck. I felt like I was dying. I didn’t know what was wrong.”

Not having health insurance, Sebastian came in to Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine the following Monday in October for care. “I was in tears when I came.”

Nurse Practitioner, Angie Crozier, examined Sebastian and found she had an advanced infection in her gums. Sebastian says “I was told without getting it treated it could kill me because when your mouth is infected, it can lead to heart trouble. I was so upset to hear that.”

Nurse Crozier immediately wrote a prescription for Sebastion and set an appointment for her to see one of LVIM’s volunteer dentists. William Nerestant, DDS, confirmed Sebastian needed specialized treatment and sent her to a periodontal specialist in Lakeland where she received free treatment as part of LVIM’s dental program. She says, “It meant the world. I was so scared.”

Like many of LVIM’s dental patients, Sebastian noticed symptoms of a dental problem, but didn’t have dental insurance. She was also caring for her mother full time, who was suffering from Alzheimers. “I had to stay home and take care of her and I put me on hold.” After four years of caring for her mother around the clock, Sebastian’s mother passed away. She then focused on her own health needs at LVIM. “Everyone there was really nice. I feel a lot better.”