Locations we serve:
"Compassion
is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like
to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that
there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there
is peace and joy finally for you too."
Frederick Buechner
Our Compassionate
Touch program is pleased to be able to extend our funding
to the Central Texas area hospitals. I had the opportunity along
with Tom Nuckels, Chaplain and Brenda Tolbert, Development Assistant
for Compassionate Touch to meet with Transplant Unit social
workers from the Temple and Austin area hospitals. Many lives
are being touched through a generous donation received specifically
for solid organ transplant patients. Patients will be provided
with funding toward assistance with parking, housing, meals
or other needed expenses. The two hospitals receiving transplant
funding are Seton Medical Center in Austin and Scott & White
in Temple.
Seton
Medical Center is Austin's largest medical/surgical acute
care center and the region's largest public service organization.
Seton contributed more than $237 million to care for the poor
last year. Furthermore, the hospital offers comprehensive
diagnostic and treatment services for both inpatients and
outpatients. Their regional specialty programs include the
Seton Heart Specialty Care and Transplant Center, Shivers
Cancer Programs and the Marialice Shivers Regional Neonatal
Center. Seton Medical Center is the only hospital in Central
Texas that performs heart transplants.
For the
fifth straight year Scott & White has been named
to the list of the "Thomson 100 Top Hospitals in the
Country." Scott & White is the largest multi-specialty
practice in Texas with more than 500 physicians who care for
patients in Temple and numerous regional clinics throughout
Central Texas. Scott & White Renal Transplant Program
provides kidney & kidney/pancreas transplants. Gregory
Jaffers, M.D. performed the first Scott & White kidney
transplant in 1977 and the first kidney/ pancreas transplant
in 1998. Dr. Jaffers remains the Division Director of Transplant
Surgery and has a huge following of love and satisfied patients
from over the years.
Lifeline
Chaplaincy's Compassionate Touch program would like to thank
our many donors and welcomes your dedicated financial support
so that we can continue providing needed resources to patients
doing their time of need. Our consensus is the same as Frederick
Buechner: "There can never really be any peace and joy
for Compassionate Touch until there is some peace and joy
for the patients whom we serve."
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