Cancer Care Patient Support Fund
You can join us in doing good through our Cancer Care Patient Support Fund
Your generous giving makes it possible to provide supportive services to improve the health, wellness and outcomes of patients.
Because some supportive services are not covered by insurance, many patients struggle to afford them. Your support can help!
As a non-profit Cancer Care Program, your giving directly serves our patients and makes a difference in their lives. You can help our specialized oncology supportive services team provide relief, dignity and hope.
Your gift of any size will help heal body, mind, and spirit.
To talk with someone directly about your interest in doing good, together, making a memorial gift, or honoring a caregiver through philanthropy, please contact us at Trinity-DoingGoodTogether@trinity-health.org
Grateful Patient Gives Back
“Giving back was healing for me. I wanted to thank the cancer care team for saving my life and for all the good work they do every day.”
— Carol Blum, grateful patient and donor.
Doing Good, Together, Your Gift Can Change Lives
Giving makes it possible for our specialized Cancer Care Supportive Services Team to provide, compassionate, innovative, personalized care that goes beyond treatment, such as:
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Transportation Services have helped to provide nearly 700 patients with over 2,200 rides in the past year. Support for our Cancer Care Transportation Fund helps us ensure equitable care and serve our patients who face a lack of transportation due to limited physical health and financial and social support.
For many patients, it helped them to stay on schedule for treatments provided in a series over weeks and months for better efficacy.
Ultimately it gives our patients relief and dignity and promotes better outcomes.
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Oncology Counseling Services are offered free to patients and their families and are funded 100% through philanthropy. The services are provided in partnership with the Cancer Support Community (CSC) of Ann Arbor.
Since our program was established, patients have received adjustment to illness counseling, and emotional and social support through over 1,000 counseling visits per year and 2,500 patient visits to CSC per year.
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The Inspirit Salon & Spa helps to ease the effects of cancer and its treatments that can have an impact on a patient’s appearance.
Our expert image recovery team is certified in wig fittings and styling, prosthesis selection, skincare and therapeutic massage. Assistance with items like post-mastectomy garments, head coverings and specialized cosmetics is made available in a healing environment designed with patients in mind.
Gifts help to provide these services and items at reduced cost or free to those who would otherwise go without.
- Oncology chaplains honor the traditions and customs of people from all religions while promoting holistic healing through spiritual services. Support for our Oncology Chaplaincy program helps provide faith-based and non-denominational support to help draw on spiritual strength throughout the cancer journey.
- Genetic Counseling is important to helping our patients understand their risks for inherited cancers and those associated with family and personal health, and social and environmental history. Specific mutations in DNA can indicate a higher risk for certain cancers and inform treatment plans. These findings help a patient and the cancer team develop a personalized approach to prevention, screening and treatments.
If you would like to learn more or talk with us about how you can join us in doing good, please contact us at:
Trinity-DoingGoodTogether@trinity-health.org
or
The Office of Philanthropy at 734-712-4040
“Our physicians and staff commit each day to ‘doing good.’ This is a special place to work and we appreciate our donor partners’ help in making the work we do possible”.
— Kathleen Beekman, MD, Medical Director of Oncology