The Richard H. Fine Fund gives grants to the Richard Fine People’s Clinic for emergency patient care items, most recently during the covid-19 pandemic and shelter-in place. Most memorial funds have a few family members as donors. The Richard H. Fine Fund has over 150 donors who carry on Dick’s legacy by supporting the patients and staff of the Clinic he loved so much.
Here are some examples of patients’ recent experiences (names have been changed for privacy).
Juana, age 80, used to come to the Clinic by bus for her regular checkups to manage her high blood pressure. The Covid-19 pandemic made this journey life threatening for someone her age with her health problems.
If Juana could have her own blood pressure monitor and learn how to use it, she could keep track of her own blood pressure, talk to her health care provider over the phone, and receive advice and adjustments to her medications, without ever leaving home. But a blood pressure monitor costs about $70, an impossible expense for Juana. Insurance rarely if ever pays.
Robert, age 69, has multiple health problems that require prescription medications, as well as diabetes and an infection in his foot that sometimes causes him to run a fever. He needed a pill pack to organize his medications and a thermometer to take his temperature. But he could not afford either one.
Other patients need basic items that the rest of us take for granted: a hot water bottle for a stiff neck, comfortable slippers for diabetic foot pain, and nutritional shakes for those who cannot eat solid food. This is where the Richard H. Fine Fund and donors’ generosity came in.
Supporters made donations to help the Richard Fine People’s Clinic patients afford basic medical supplies during the pandemic. Contribution to the Richard H. Fine Fund helped the frontline workers at the Clinic keep our patients healthy and safe.
To donate, please visit: www.sfghf.org/donate. In the section that says “Please Use My Gift”, click Other and enter Richard H. Fine Fund.
Or you can mail a check to: SFGH Foundation, PO Box 410836, San Francisco, CA 94141-0836. Please write Richard H. Fine Fund on the memo line.