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Dim Futures Await Innocent Children
Until Dream House and its supporters, medically fragile children had no voice, no options, no hope. As advocates for them, Dream House is changing the the Georgia landscape. Imagine the life of a medically fragile child.
Pinpointing the Cause
A pediatric nurse for over 20 years, Dream House Founder and CEO Laura Moore identified a rapidly growing a segment of her patient population – the medically fragile child.
- Medical technology saves children who could not have survived a decade ago.
- Their conditions cross all medical diagnoses.
- The very technology used to save these children must now sustain them.
- This makes life-care for medically fragile children complex and costly.
- What kind of life is in store for them?
Escalating Statistics Outpace Solutions
Society isn’t yet prepared to embrace medically fragile children in a way that makes their lives worth living. Why?
- The infrastructure to support their extraordinary care doesn’t yet exist.
- Burdened by caring for a chronically ill child, families must search and beg for necessary equipment, supplies and treatment to adequately meet their child's needs.
- Many families cannot adequately care for them.
- These children end up being abused, abandoned, placed in foster care, senior adult nursing homes, or live out their lives in hospitals.
Laura had a theory she felt certain would work. For years, Laura tested her transition care model with 100 percent success. Read more of the Dream House story...
Reaching epidemic proportions, most of us have no idea this tragedy is taking place in our communities, throughout our state, and around the country. Learn how you can make a difference today.
Call received April 17, 2008. A distraught father called Dream House seeking assistance. Recently bumped from his company-sponsored medical benefits plan due to expenses incurred as a result of specialized health care for his child, he explained his newly acquired private coverage was limited at best. Because his salary level exempts him from eligibility for state and federal aid, the family’s income is being spent on the daughter’s complex needs. His mortgage is in default, with foreclosure imminent. Today, his wife announced that, from her perspective, the only way they can care for their daughter is to divorce. As a single parent, perhaps her income status would then allow for what little financial aid or government-sponsored programs their daughter was currently being denied.
This family desperately wants to do what is best for their child. They want to care for her themselves, but options are slipping away. Why then, should the family be destroyed because they want to do the right thing?
This is a common situation faced by many families in Georgia today. Fortunately, Dream House exists to help families with medically fragile children in their time of need – if they know about us. Our hope is that we are not too late to make a difference for this particular family.
