Giving Back Magazine October 2018 | Page 84

Health CHAMPIONS FOR HEALTH Getting healthy, keeping healthy M ayra spoke of the extreme pain and inability to work or care for her son. Hermelinda tearfully said she thought she would not be able to create the floral arrangements that were her specialty. Juan excitedly told of relief from excruciating head pain so that he could be daddy once more and play with his young children. They all prayed for an angel to come and help them. These angels are the volunteer physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists, and various healthcare professionals mobilized into action by Champions for Health (CFH), a non-profit organization whose mission is to improve community health and wellness, access to care for all, and support for physicians through engaged volunteerism. This CFH vision is to get people healthy, and to keep people healthy, through an integrated approach of service provision and partner collaboration. 84 GBSAN.COM | OCTOBER 2018 Carlsbad Surgery Day in April 2018 with all the physician, nurse, anesthesiologist and other volunteers PASD Family