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Danville, Illinois Patient Assistance – Aunt Martha’s Healthcare Network
August 8th, 2009 | 
Author: August 07, 2009
Aunt Martha’s kicks off Health Center Week
STAFF REPORT
Commercial-News.com
DANVILLE — Aunt Martha’s Healthcare Network kicks off National Health Center Week with two community events in Danville.
…On Thursday, an additional community event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Health Center. The day will include adult health screenings including blood pressure, glucose and body mass index; enrollments for All Kids Program, IHC and Prescription Assistance; education on diabetes, asthma and child obesity; and healthy refreshments will be served.
If you would like more information about Aunt Martha’s Healthcare Network, contact Ken Williams at (708) 709-7631 or e-mail him at kwilliams@auntmarthas.org.
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Assistance Programs – Texas – Comal County Prescription Assistance Program
By Ashlie McEachern
The Herald-Zeitung
Published July 9, 2009
In the face of rising health care costs and a larger number of people facing unemployment, the Comal County Prescription Assistance Program helps people get medicines they need from drug companies.
For a monthly fee ranging from $15 to $50, the program does all the necessary paperwork and gathers proper documentation required by drug companies. Participants then go and pick up filled prescriptions at their local pharmacies.
Patient Assistance Program for Moore and Montgomery Counties in NC
thepilot.com
June 25, 2009
Grant Boosts Prescription Assistance Program
By Jonathan Summey: Newsroom Intern
A local program that helps provide prescription drugs for low-income residents has received a significant donation.
The North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund (HWTF) awarded $60,000 to the FirstHealth Cares program, which serves residents of Moore and Montgomery counties.
It assists residents who lack prescription drug coverage (including Medicaid or Medicare) and meets financial qualifications, according to Roxanne Leopper of First-Health Community Health Services.
The program helps secure medication from pharmaceutical manufactures for chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol.
Pfizer, Inc. Announces New Patient Prescription Plan for Unemployed
Human Resource Executive Online
June 4, 2009
Prescription for the Unemployed
By David Shadovitz
Last month, Pfizer Inc. announced the launch of a program designed to assist unemployed American workers and their families who have lost their health insurance by providing them with free medicines…
…To receive any of the roughly 70 Pfizer medications (including top sellers such as Lipitor, Celebrex and Lyrica) covered by the program, the unemployed workers need to have lost their jobs on or after Jan. 1, 2009, must have been taking a Pfizer medicine for a least three months prior to becoming unemployed, must be without prescription drug coverage and must show financial hardship.
A Letter from the CEO on the Financial State of iPump
Why we have temporarily cut back on our assistance programs
March 2, 2009
To Other Families and Individuals Dealing With Diabetes;
My name is Lahle Wolfe. I have type 2 diabetes and a heart for families in crisis.
In 2004, my youngest child, Elizabeth, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 4. We had almost exhausted our COBRA insurance (which cost a lot and covered little) and soon our medical expenses became too much to handle. I sold our family home to pay off medical debt and begin a new life in another state where we could get insurance through a state program (which also cost a lot and covered little).
Not long after we lost everything to pay off medical bills, my daughter, Elizabeth (then 5) came to me and begged me to start a “helping organization” so other families would not have to go through what we did. She persisted, asking me every single day if we had helped someone else yet. In summer of 2006, to honor my young daughter’s passion for others living with diabetes, we began forming iPump.
We Have Helped More than 10,000 People on a Shoestring Budget – and $60,000 From Our Own Personal Savings
iPump was an overnight success – there is no other organization doing what we do – working directly with pump manufacturers to get used pumps fixed and back into circulation – for free!
In 2007 and 2008,iPump received more than one million dollars of in-kind donations of pumps and supplies we were able to send to individuals and clinics in need in 46 states. Because of the extreme generosity of our in-kind donors we have helped thousands of people with diabetes in only two short years.
But in 2007 and 2008 combined, we received less than $1,500 in cash donations to help us cover the cost of shipping these supplies, recertifying insulin pumps, and the many costs associated with starting and running a large (but frugal) business.
Our family made the decision to go without and personally covered iPump’s costs including telephone, web hosting, printing, permits, office space, and office equipment. (Because we have no paid staff, we were turned down by many grant makers who would not fund salaries but would not give all-volunteer organizations grants either).
Because I believe in what we are doing I have worked more than 10,000 hours for free to run iPump and have now personally contributed more than $60,000 in cash to fund most of iPump’s operating costs (another board member kicked in another $15,000 that went directly to people in need).
I donated all the financial assistance that was sent to help individuals in 2008 and personally paid for the purchase of emergency insulin, thousands of test strips, and covered the cost of co-pays on four insulin pumps. When iPump donations literally took over every room and nook and cranny of my small home, I made a leap of faith and paid for a year of rented office space so that we could continue to run the organization and hopefully, attract more cash donors.
Our Family Can no Longer Finance all of iPump’s Assistance Programs
Because my own personal financial situation has fallen prey to the stock market I simply cannot continue to do this in 2009 without jeopardizing the health and welfare of my own four children. As a single mother, I need to work (I get no income from iPump and must also find time to run my sole proprietorship for income) and my own savings has all gone to help other families in crisis.
What iPump has already accomplished is HUGE, but please understand this has been due to the tireless dedication and personal and financial sacrifices made by my children who gave up luxuries and were willing to “make do” (like riding around in a ten-year-old van and shopping Wal-Mart and thrift stores and foregoing birthday parties – and we have never taken a family vacation). They have selflessly given their own time – working for free doing odd jobs at iPump instead of playing with friends so that the lives other people with diabetes could be improved. I cannot ask for more wonderful children than I have been blessed with.
It is also because hundreds of donors cared enough to send their spare supplies and pumps to us (at their own expenses) that thousands of people with diabetes did not have to go without supplies last year.
But, it is because the need and demand for our services has now depleted our families financial resources that I am now the one asking for help – your help, to keep iPump going.
A Difficult Decision
Due to tough economic times, like many businesses we have had to make difficult and painful decisions to ensure that iPump will be around long after the recession has passed. Therefore, we have had to close most of our programs and are not currently accepting applications for adults, or from those who have at least some insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid.
In order for iPump to weather the financial crisis so many are facing, we have had to return to our original mission – only helping children with type 1 diabetes and offering free, recertified insulin pumps to the uninsured.
We need donors to trust in our commitment to our cause and in our business integrity. Financial donations are critical to our continued success in 2009 but we are not closing our doors. If you can give, please do so generously. With the right financial support, we can re-open our programs to adults and people with type 2 diabetes as well.
If you know someone (or a corporation) with a big heart that can help, please tell them about iPump.
With true compassion and concern for all of us who live with diabetes,
Lahle Wolfe, Founder/CEO (type 2)
and her children, Elizabeth (age 10, type 1), Rachel (age 14, MODY 5, kidney failure at age 10),
Samuel (19), and Jonathan (13)
