Helping Hands is a program that receives funding from team member contributions to Mountain States Foundation. Since this program began, more than 600 patients and family members have been helped through this program.

Here are a few notes describing how Helping Hands has helped patients:

"Many patients do not have insurance and have equipment needs such as a walker. This program allows us to furnish that equipment if they are discharged before their financial needs assessment has been approved."

"A gas card was given to the family of a patient who was being transferred to Vanderbilt as they had no money to pay for gas."

"A taxi voucher was given to a patient discharged from Special Procedures who needed to return to his home in assisted living. He had no one to assist him."

"Funds were used to pay a signer for a deaf couple who needed treatment in the Emergency Department."

"Lodging was provided for a patient who had eye surgery. The weather was bad and the doctor wanted to see him the next morning."

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Funding Priorities

Funds to provide:	Annual facility needs:
Accommodation vouchers Gas cards Prescription assistance Meal vouchers Taxi vouchers	Russell County Community Hospital - $3,000 James H. & Cecile C. Quillen Rehabilitation Hospital - $2,000 Johnston Memorial Hospital - $2,000 Woodridge Hospital - $1,000 Franklin Woods Community Hospital (opening 2010) - $1,000	Johnson City Medical Center - $15,000 Indian Path Medical Center - $10,000 Sycamore Shoals Hospital - $4,000 Johnson County Community Hospital - $3,000 Smyth County Community Hospital - $5,000