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Non-Profit Health Organizations
Pre-Health Professional Development (HLTH 3300)
The University of Texas at Dallas
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Non-Profit Health Organizations ● Examples include American Heart Association (AHA), Alzheimer's Association. ● There are many resources for patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals, but doctors are unaware of them. ● They don’t exist to raise money to make profit; all of them were created a long time ago by someone who had a family member who was living with a specific disease and there were no resources for the patient and their family. ● All of these organizations were made to fill service gaps. Primary Reason: ● Targets the disease or disease process. ● Devoted to finding a cure for whatever disease; connected to. ● Fundraising → they have many events to raise money but they can also sponsor things like short distance races, walks, etc. ● For healthcare professionals: these organizations buy a list of licenses that has your addresses and invite you to diferent dinners (example: $100/plate). ● They also conduct patient education at a lower level of writing and is writen in layman’s terms; helps to describe disease to patients. They also make helpful patient education material about diets, exercise, etc... all of which happen to be free. ● They also conduct public education for the purpose of enhancing greater awareness of a disease, especially if the number of people who have this disease are increasing. FUNDS ● Fundraise to fund research, not new grants by to give to ongoing research of disease. ○ All money raised has to go to a specific part of public education, research, etc. (a certain section); they can’t keep anything for themselves. ○ You can’t buy stock in the American Heart Association (or any organization for that mater). ● To provide services to patients: ○ Ex. AHA has smoking cessation and free cooking courses. The Diabetes group also has free cooking courses. ● To provide services to family caregivers: ○ Extension to them, things you, as a healthcare professional, can’t provide: ■ They need a lot of info, they get anxious if they’re doing something correctly; these discuss about monitoring diet, regimen, and financial planning ■ Also for diseases where there’s no cure, where the patient can no longer work, especially if they are the main source of income (doctors do not talk about this).
● Another service is that they ofer support groups for patients separate from caregivers because you can’t vent if the person they’re taking care of are in another room. ○ Run by volunteers who are trained by a mental health professional. ○ Helpful for patients, they share info about sources and providers. ○ Everybody’s dealing with the same stuf. ● They also have a helpline: 1-800 number for patients and family to call: ○ Manned by health care professionals and nurses. ○ They refer patients to healthcare facilities and professionals. ■ The healthcare professional contacts helplines and give their info for their respective type of specialty. ■ Dentists call those with Alzheimer's for those with dementia. ● They also employ non-profit health organizations (whole range of them) because they’re interested in patient education. For Professionals: ● Larger ones publish the journals that we use. ○ Ex. diabetes ● They also provide an education “symposium” (but it doesn’t ofer CEUs). This is purely educational. They charge you for this though. ● Research grants. ● Ofer some volunteer opportunities (drawing blood, general dental check, etc.). Structure of nonprofits: ● Professionally organized. ● Large, national, and governed by a board (many board positions are held by volunteer health professionals). ● Each organization must have a certain number of healthcare people on board. ● Volunteers usually have some connection to the disease. ● Board gives most direction to the organization and has most power. ● Paid staf = develops everything try do into monthly reports. Staf ○ People in management providers (healthcare professional sometimes); the helpline; workshops; people who make info easy to understand. ○ Development staf is in charge of fundraising. ○ Writing in healthcare; ■ Developing patient education material and family too. ■ Helping with editorials. ■ Looking at submited journal articles. ● Some will ask to donate money for their funeral instead of geting them flowers. ● Not paid in cash, but in food, t-shirts, etc.
Non-Profit Health Organizations
Course: Pre-Health Professional Development (HLTH 3300)
University: The University of Texas at Dallas
