Healthcare Nonprofit Organizations

10 Healthcare Nonprofit Organizations Making a Difference

Nonprofit organizations play an important part in funding healthcare services for low-income consumers. The individuals that led these organizations typically have roots in the community. These organizations provide a safety net for dealing with society’s most pressing health issues and conform to legal and ethical standards that require them to work toward improving circumstance for their constituents.

Rather than distributing earnings to stakeholders, nonprofit organizations use profits to enrich the lives of disadvantaged citizens. Often, these organizations outperform those of comparable for profit enterprises.

The following 10 narratives portray just a few nonprofits organizations

that improve the lives of others every day.

The Task Force for Global Health

In 1984, organizers founded the Task Force for Global Health to address low vaccination rates in undeveloped regions. [1] The initiative encompasses eight programs and five initiatives that target disease prevention through vaccination, health network improvements and neglected tropical diseases. The organization helps hundreds of millions of consumer in 154 countries. Collaboratively, the programs and initiatives provide administrative, financial and human resources support for delivering vaccinations to constituents.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Various citizens, government entities and private benefactors joined forces in 2002 to establish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. [2] The groups work collaboratively to deliver effective treatments for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis (TB) and malaria to individuals, communities and health systems. Utilizing the latest best practices, participants coordinate international treatment resources, determine how to combat illnesses and make long-term disease management plans. Together, Global Fund participants help families lead healthy, productive and stable lives.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

St.

Jude Children’s Research Hospital open on February 4, 1962 with the goal of helping children lead long, productive lives. [3] The organization provides free housing, meals, transportation and treatment so that families can focus on healing their children. Since then, the organization has raised the cancer survival rate among children from 20 to 80 percent and the survival rate for children diagnosed with Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a disease the meant certain death for children in 1962, to 94 percent. Today, the organization leads the way in develop innovative cancer treatments for children and share information with physician around the world to save thousands of additional young lives.

Kaiser Family Foundation

The nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation started out as a private foundation in 1990, reorganized into a private operating foundation and now serves as a public charity. [4] The organization focuses on health issues concerning United States consumers as well as American international health policies. The Kaiser Family Foundation analyzes health policies, partners with major news services, publishes health information and then disseminates this critical information to consumers, healthcare organizations, journalists and lawmakers.

National Breast Cancer

Foundation

Janelle Hail found the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NCBF) after surviving the affliction in 1980. [5] When physicians diagnosed her with the condition, doctors knew little about the disease. Today, however, the NCBF educates and supports women diagnosed with the condition through early detection screenings. The group also provides free mammograms to women in all 50 United States.

Foundation for the National Institutes of Health

In 1990, Congress established the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FINH) as a nonprofit organization. [6] The organization secures funding and manages collaborative initiatives on behalf of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). FINH partners with other organizations to advance biomedical research and policy in the United States and around the world. The group also organizes trainings and symposiums to share latest medical trends and funds initiatives across a range of health disciplines.

Fistula Foundation

The Fistula Foundation purses the singular objective of treating obstetric fistula. [7] With donations from generous benefactors, the group backs community health organizations with human resource and financial support. The organization only support vetted agencies with a proven record of accomplishment of promoting positive outcomes among women diagnosed with obstetric fistula. The group also supports intermediary services that provide services for obstetric fistula patients.

Consortium of Universities for Global Health

With funding provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, a panel of medical experts formed the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (GUCH) in 2008. [8] The organization consists of a collaborative of 145 universities and health entities from around the globe and accepts new partners continuously. In 2016, the GUCH held its seventh symposium called “Bridging to a Sustainable Future in Global Health.” Today, the organization works to promote knowledge sharing across disciplines and social equity as it applies to medical services around the world.

Safe Hands for Girls

Organizers established Safe Hands for Girls in 2013 to put an end to female genital mutilation.

[9] The group also helps women who have lived through the ordeal cope with the traumatic effects of the event. Group member consists of community member who challenge and oppose political powers that support the female genital mutilation by educating consumers about the practice. As the organization matures, it expands its focus to deal with other issues that threaten to women and their ability to live full, productive lives.

Last Mile Health

Last Mile Health operates by a simple but powerful premise that all individual should have access to quality of care, even those that live in remote locations. [10] The group defines a last mile community as a settlement the rest more than 5 kilometers from the nearest care facility. People who live in these communities must walk for miles over treacherous terrain. Last Mile Health aims to end unnecessary deaths caused by treatable conditions because consumers cannot reach care providers.

Nurses can improve the lives of community constituents by continuously advocating for those who can’t do so themselves. To do this effectively, nurses must continuously hone their skills and abilities in performing civic service. By maintaining advocacy acumen, nurses can educate policymakers on the what changes offer tangible value for improving community

health.

Sources:

[1] https://www.taskforce.org/

[2] http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/

[3] https://www.stjude.org/

[4] http://kff.org/

[5] http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/

[6] http://www.fnih.org/

[7] https://www.fistulafoundation.org/

[8] http://www.cugh.org/

[9] http://www.safehandsforgirls.org/

[10] http://lastmilehealth.org/