Welcome to Compassionate
Touch, Inc.
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to ease the burden of others . . .
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“To
accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize,
then plan ... believe...act!”
Alfred A. Montapert
Compassionate
Touch, Inc. began as a humanitarian outreach program of Lifeline
Chaplaincy in June of 1997. It was inspired by the late Dr.
Bill Love, Lifeline Chaplaincy’s first Director of Development.
He knew first-hand that many of the Texas Medical Center patients
come to Houston without adequate financial support for non-medical
needs such as lodging, meals or parking.
Dr. Love and Barry Curtis approached the M.D. Anderson Social
Services department with the idea of addressing some of those
needs. They presented an initial grant of $10,000 received
from a local foundation to
Michael Fife with M.D. Anderson’s Social Services. This
grant opened a door to begin our Compassionate Touch program.
Soon doors in other TMC hospitals began to open.
"Thank
you for your help and thoughtfulness when we were there at
the hospital during my son’s surgery for his brain tumor.
Thank you for the HOSPITALITY of putting us up in a hotel
close to the hospital. Prior to your assistance we had slept
in our car for 2 cold and rainy nights.
We had only enough money for gas to get to Houston (from Mississippi)."
LOVE and LIGHT and Gratitude,
Will & Lynn
So the dream
continues for nearly 15,000 patients with fundings totaling
over $1,765,880.00. Compassionate Touch, Inc. works closely
with hospital social workers to provide funds for their most
needy patients. The uniqueness of our program makes it the only
one of its kind in the hospitals we serve.
"Thank
you for all that you do for my patients, so many of my families
need your help."
Jenni Knox, LMSW - The Methodist Hospital
- Houston
We
thank our many generous donors for your continued support
to our program. We welcome others to join us in this effort
to keep this dream alive for patients and their families.
Contact us to have a Lifeline representative speak to individuals
or groups concerning our program.
From
a dream, a vision, a plan, a belief, and the kind acts of
many, great things are being accomplished through the Compassionate
Touch, Inc.
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