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Mission Statement
Martha Reed Foundation, Inc.
Our mission is to help make society stronger, safer and healthier. Through education,
our products and services help improve people’s lives, either as healers or health care
providers, or as consumers of health care services.
Our primary goal is to REDUCE MEDICAL ERRORS and improve safe health care
delivery through education. Every product we design and produce helps people to
improve themselves personally and professionally. Our students include doctors, nurses,
technicians and other medical people.
Our community service efforts include patient safety seminars. We provide information
people need to know before they present themselves to a hospital for treatment.
Passing through the health care system safely is not a given. You need to be informed
about your condition (or loved ones condition) and treatment options.
Our future contributions to the practice of medicine will help propel best practice or
“evidence based practice” to the forefront of health care providers throughout the
world. Our alliances with established researchers and medical practitioners are strong
and sustainable. We will continue to collaborate, innovate and succeed.
Martha Reed Foundation, Inc.
Our mission is to help make society stronger, safer and healthier. Through education,
our products and services help improve people’s lives, either as healers or health care
providers, or as consumers of health care services.
Our primary goal is to REDUCE MEDICAL ERRORS and improve safe health care
delivery through education. Every product we design and produce helps people to
improve themselves personally and professionally. Our students include doctors, nurses,
technicians and other medical people.
Our community service efforts include patient safety seminars. We provide information
people need to know before they present themselves to a hospital for treatment.
Passing through the health care system safely is not a given. You need to be informed
about your condition (or loved ones condition) and treatment options.
Our future contributions to the practice of medicine will help propel best practice or
“evidence based practice” to the forefront of health care providers throughout the
world. Our alliances with established researchers and medical practitioners are strong
and sustainable. We will continue to collaborate, innovate and succeed.
God continues to bless us in many ways. We are grateful
for your generous contributions that enable us to continue
our important work. Please help us take care of the people
who take care of you when you are in your time of need.
Our community service efforts would not be possible were
it not for people like you. Helping people live stronger,
safer and healthier is our life's work. We really do work
close to the hand of God.
The Martha Reed Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit
organization in the service of others. To make a
contribution please call 757-627-2603 or mail your tax
deductible donation to us at 1511 Royale Terrace in
Norfolk, Virginia 23509
Contact us to schedule a free, award winning Patient
Safety Seminar at your church, work group, club or
organization. We are glad to help you.
Close to the Hand of God
I held the hand of a 91-year-old man as he took his last breath. I
brushed the teeth of a 19-year-old woman who lay silent in a coma. I
dried the tears of a trauma patient, filled with fear and grieving for
her mother, who died in the same accident. I shaved the weathered
face of a silent man on life supporting drips and machines, while his
wife whispered encouragement into his ears.
I hear the rhythm of the ventilators and the alarms that call me. I
watch the lines and numbers on the cardiac monitor and make quick
and silent decisions. I calculate, mix and titrate life-sustaining
infusions. I chart the story of my healing hands on flow sheets and
graphs. But I know that ultimately, it is not in our hands.
I laugh with my patients and pray silently over them at the same time.
I offer comfort to patients and families who wait for a heart
transplant, sustained by hope and prayer, realizing what must occur
before they can get a heart. I am in awe of the resiliency of the human
spirit.
I’ve felt joy at the miracle of reviving a life and helplessness in
prolonging suffering. I’m amazed how a diseased body can live for
many years and a healthy one die in seconds. I’ve marveled at the
work of surgeons and yet see them baffled by the complexity of a single
life.
I’ve seen the rich and the poor, the black and the white, the ignorant
and the educated become equals in their fight for life. I’ve seen death
often enough that I’m not so afraid of it. I’ve been humbled and
privileged to be this close to the hand of God. In all of this, I’ve
received a million times over what I’ve given.
I am a critical care nurse.
Carol Ann Cowey
Martha Reed
Genia Brandenburg
for your generous contributions that enable us to continue
our important work. Please help us take care of the people
who take care of you when you are in your time of need.
Our community service efforts would not be possible were
it not for people like you. Helping people live stronger,
safer and healthier is our life's work. We really do work
close to the hand of God.
The Martha Reed Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit
organization in the service of others. To make a
contribution please call 757-627-2603 or mail your tax
deductible donation to us at 1511 Royale Terrace in
Norfolk, Virginia 23509
Contact us to schedule a free, award winning Patient
Safety Seminar at your church, work group, club or
organization. We are glad to help you.
Close to the Hand of God
I held the hand of a 91-year-old man as he took his last breath. I
brushed the teeth of a 19-year-old woman who lay silent in a coma. I
dried the tears of a trauma patient, filled with fear and grieving for
her mother, who died in the same accident. I shaved the weathered
face of a silent man on life supporting drips and machines, while his
wife whispered encouragement into his ears.
I hear the rhythm of the ventilators and the alarms that call me. I
watch the lines and numbers on the cardiac monitor and make quick
and silent decisions. I calculate, mix and titrate life-sustaining
infusions. I chart the story of my healing hands on flow sheets and
graphs. But I know that ultimately, it is not in our hands.
I laugh with my patients and pray silently over them at the same time.
I offer comfort to patients and families who wait for a heart
transplant, sustained by hope and prayer, realizing what must occur
before they can get a heart. I am in awe of the resiliency of the human
spirit.
I’ve felt joy at the miracle of reviving a life and helplessness in
prolonging suffering. I’m amazed how a diseased body can live for
many years and a healthy one die in seconds. I’ve marveled at the
work of surgeons and yet see them baffled by the complexity of a single
life.
I’ve seen the rich and the poor, the black and the white, the ignorant
and the educated become equals in their fight for life. I’ve seen death
often enough that I’m not so afraid of it. I’ve been humbled and
privileged to be this close to the hand of God. In all of this, I’ve
received a million times over what I’ve given.
I am a critical care nurse.
Carol Ann Cowey
Martha Reed
Genia Brandenburg
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