Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’
UTMB Students Help CHRISTUS Our Daily Bread Clients Achieve Better Quality of Life
University of Texas Medical Branch Medical (UTMB) students, on their psycho social rotations are incorporating their fieldwork into the CHRISTUS Our Daily Bread program. The students use their occupational therapy knowledge and practicum to help the homeless population acclimate to the community, using occupational therapy. Defining Occupational Therapy Occupational therapy is not what you think…
Read MoreDulce’s Light: The Mission of Helping a Seven Year Old Face the World with a Smile
Close your eyes and imagine going blind right after birth, because of medical negligence. Couple that with a mid-facial cleft, and missing fingers and you have the beginning of a life trials, for a sweet seven-year-old. Thanks to CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare and Operation San Jose mission Dulce’s story doesn’t stop there. Dulce’s parents were…
Read MoreUSFHP Named Presenting Sponsor for Outreach Programs
Presented with an opportunity to support CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare, US Family Health Plan (USFHP) has agreed to fund the CHRISTUS Healthy Living Mobile Clinics ministry and the annual Nun Run as a presenting sponsor for the next two years. USFHP provides health plans for eligible beneficiaries under the department of Defense’s TRICARE Prime program. USFHP’s dedication to these outreach programs of the CHRISTUS Foundation for…
Read MorePaying It Forward: The Steve Gonzalez Story
At the age of 23, Steve Gonzalez was a husband and father to three beautiful children, four, two and a one-year old. He was employed as a car washer on the north side of Houston, near Bush Intercontinental Airport. If you knew Steve, you would know the term “hard-working” does not begin to describe him.…
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