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Welcome to Compassionate Touch, Inc.
Seeks 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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