Rescuing Health will financially aid individuals who do not qualify for any other type of public or private healthcare assistance in obtaining specific health treatments or surgeries. We will seek collaborators rather than competitors within the healthcare/philanthropic arena of East Tennessee. The board looks around the region for other agencies that might be able to help the applicant. If there
is no other help source, the board may decide to take on the applicant (1). The application goes through a panel of volunteer physicians who direct the patient to the most appropriate service. Rescuing Health field partners advocate for the patient and give support all the way through the recovery period. In 2015, Rescuing Health will be fund-raising for applicant-specific needs as well as to build and endowment. The endowment is to be used to treat cases of emergency, when there is no time to wait for individual-specific fund raising. Rescuing Health also seeks to be a clearinghouse for information and communication between charitable/philanthropic health-care initiatives both public and private in the Knoxville area and seeks to partner with already existing Healthcare groups both public and private, in order to be a hub of communication and information between these disparate entities in order to better serve those who are disenfranchised.
1.Rescuing Health will only finance those cases that the board and the volunteer consulting physicians deem a health issue. The board reserves the right to turn away applicants. Rescuing Health does not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation or religious belief.
