The Compassion Coalition

 Every hospital has what’s called a patient advocate and their main job is to help you especially if you feel mistreated.  They will also let you know what can be done, an example would be a change in nurse.

For those who go to the hospital or urgent care we’ve made little emergency kits that have items that make your visit or the visit of a loved one not suck so much. It includes things like tissues, alcohol wipes, some candy, floss, qtips, electrolyte drink mix, some relaxing oil, hot and cold pads.  We provide these free of charge. 

Part of what we try to do is challenge stigmas  that allow medical professionals to overlook what’s really going on.  This can only be rectified through communication and awareness.  Sometimes our own bias blind us to the truth.

This is the oath all medical professionals take before graduation.

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not", nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

We want to help the vulnerable such as the elderly, disabled and homeless.  In each case we try to help as much as possible.  Currently we are trying to work with an Elder Care center and teachers and kids, helping fund projects and other efforts such as kits and raising money for needed items.  

We are a nonprofit based out of Colorado. We are in good standing with the state and federal government.