It’s about the people
I’m writing this update as Project Access NOW board chair because it’s a really busy time for staff. We’re only a week away from Bridges to Healthcare, our annual recognition and fundraising event.
In the midst of all the busy-ness, it’s important to stop and remind ourselves why we do this. The answer is simple: it’s about the people.
It’s first and foremost about the people we serve. It’s about the people we connect to care, it’s about the patients. We believe everyone deserves access to healthcare.
It’s also about people who provide care for patients. Everyone working at our safety net clinic partners, supporting patients and doing amazing work with sometimes serious limitations. Our physician, nurse practitioner, physical therapist, pharmacist volunteers donating their time and their skills with generosity and grace. Our health system partners providing resources for lab and radiology and medications. All working together to make care available and efficient.
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Ultimately what matters is that we are connecting people to the care they need, and that we’re doing it in a way that, we hope, is supportive and uplifting for people who donate that care. Bridges to Healthcare aims to celebrate that. The event’s primary purpose is to thank everyone who makes this effort possible. We will also be raising funds to support the program, so we can connect even more people to care.
So be sure to register for the event and invite your peers to do so as well (thanks to our generous sponsors, the event is free to attend and all the money raised will go to connecting people to health care). We’ll have a silent auction (preview the list of items here), and we will be selling Golden Tickets again, for a chance to win a trip to Puerto Vallarta and week-long stay in a condo.
We look forward to hosting you!
Mark Rosenberg
Chair, Board of Directors
Project Access NOW
P.S.: This month Portland Woman Magazine featured our Executive Director Linda Nilsen-Solares. As an organization we are fortunate to have such a talented, energetic leader. Read the article in full here. (We wish all of our partners had been named, but alas, the editors found the list too long and the partners too numerous to all fit into the article.)
