Patient Advocate Foundation - their mission is to provide effective mediation and arbitration services to patients to remove obstacles to healthcare including medical debt crisis, insurance access issues and employment issues for patients with chronic, debilitating and life-threatening illnesses. i

CancerCare – a national nonprofit organization that provides free, professional support services for anyone affected by cancer, including patients, family/caregivers and professionals.

The Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) Co-Pay Relief Program (CPR) - provides direct financial support to insured patients, including Medicare Part D beneficiaries, who must financially and medically qualify to access pharmaceutical co-payment assistance. The program offers personal service to all patients through the use of call counselors; personally guiding patients through the enrollment process.

Kids Konnected - provides complimentary counseling, summer camps, bereavement workshops and cancer educational tools for children & teens with a parent with cancer, or have lost a parent to cancer. Kids Konnected was founded on the premise that when a parent gets cancer, the entire family is affected especially the children.

 

Courtesy of the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research at UCLA Medical Center.