Thank you's

We would like to express our thanks to you and Compassionate Touch for your assistance over the last two years for our transplant patients at Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth. The assistance has helped our transplant patients toward the cost of housing, food. travel and other vital expenses between scheduled appointments. Your agency allows a significant level of support for transplant patients who are often overwhelmed and in need of temporary support while moving through the recovery process of organ transplant.

Thank you again for your courteous service and support. Rosa, you and your staff are always available for questions and timely follow up of our grant requests. We look forward to working with Compassionate Touch/Lifeline Chaplaincy in the future.

Maggie Marek, LCSW
Transplant Social Worker
Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth

Lifeline Chaplaincy may be able to measure the dollars spent and the number of families served, but we will be the fortunate ones at Parkland to see the other immeasurable ways the patients and families benefit from the generosity of Compassionate Touch, Lifeline Chaplaincy and their donors. We thank you for the opportunities you have provided for us and our patients.”

Thank you for your assistance with this patient's needs. When I gave him the confirmation information, he started to cry and couldn't believe that there were as nice of people at Lifeline. He voiced that his life was at stake and if he hadn't come to Houston that he knew that he would not be alive today. He spoke of the cost of a life - how he didn't want to put a dollar amount to his; however, when he thought that he had no way to get back home he questioned if it would have been better for his family for him just to die instead of having the rest of his and their lives to pay off the cost of his life. It was a good opportunity to explain that someone gave up his life for ours. Thanks for your help. And thanks for all those people who are caring enough to help patients and families as this one. They were truly grateful.

Dear Ms Rosa Winfrey,

I also wanted you to know that I received a thank you card from a patient's family who you helped with a hotel stay. I would like for you to know what was said in the card.

"Thank you for your help and thoughtfulness when we were there at the hospital during Jason's surgery for the 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."

Thank you for all that you do for my patients. I work in the neuro ICU and so many of my families need your help.

Jenni Knox , LMSW
The Methodist Hospital
Clinical Effectiveness & Social Work Department

May 14, 2008

Compassionate Touch recently traveled to Dallas to meet with Southwest Transplant Alliance and the North Texas network of transplant social workers. This very important and active network of Dallas area social workers meets every other month or so in order to share resources and to support one another so they can better support patients in need of life-saving organ transplants.

The social workers were thrilled to learn of this new resource that will most certainly help them to support patients facing financial crises.

Southwest Transplant Alliance and the transplant social workers of North Texas welcome Compassionate Touch to our area and thank this wonderful organization, in advance, for the tremendous help it is sure to provide.

Pam Silvestri
Southwest Transplant Alliance - Dallas