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Why You Should Stop Everything and Donate to the Healthy Physician Foundation
Jul 16, 2024, 09:19 AM
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MSDC STaff
The Healthy Physician Foundation is your tax-deductible option for supporting your local community's wellbeing.
In 2021, MSDC created the Healthy Physician Foundation. Why? Because we wanted you to have the resources to support your own wellbeing and, if needed, recovery, independent of where you work. DC has a wealth of resources to help you be the best you but none were (1) physician overseen and (2) independent of a hospital or health system.
The Healthy Physician Foundation is your resource for health, and that is why we are asking for your donation today.
- Supporting peers: By donating, physicians directly contribute to the wellbeing of their colleagues and the medical community.
- Addressing a critical issue: Physician burnout and addiction are significant problems affecting healthcare quality and patient outcomes.
- Improving patient care: Healthier, more balanced physicians provide better care to their patients.
- Tax benefits: We're a 501(c)(3) organizations so donations are tax-deductible.
- Investing in the future: Supporting HPF helps ensure a sustainable healthcare workforce by investing in things like research, the Physician Health Program, and healthy at-home cooking programs.
- Personal relevance: You've experienced or witnessed burnout and addiction, so you know the need.
- Enhancing the profession: More wellbeing resources mean more ways to build a better physician workforce.
- Preventing medical errors: Reducing burnout and addiction can decrease the likelihood of medical mistakes.
- Promoting work-life balance: Our programs help create a culture that values physician health and personal time.
- Reducing healthcare costs: Addressing burnout and addiction can lower turnover rates and associated expenses.
- Setting an example: Physician donors demonstrate leadership and commitment to their profession's wellbeing.
- Giving back to the community: Healthy physicians are better equipped to serve their patients.
What programs do you build by donating?
- Our Physician Health Program to help physicians in recovery get the support and monitoring they need without overburdening their finances.
- Our train-the-trainer program to create scholarships for physicians to become Lifestyle Medicine Certified, then train more DC physicians on best practices.
- Our research projects, like the Gender Equity Task Force, can build on their research to create more takeaways and items for advocacy for better compensation.
- Our coaching and peer-to-peer programs to allow physicians and medical students to receive more complimentary sessions.
Donate today and help you and your colleagues have a healthier, better community.