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Dear Member of the Medical Society of Delaware:
Today is Giving Tuesday! We are thankful for all of our members and your support to the Medical Society, your patients, and the community.
Would you join with your fellow members in making a gift to support our Medical Society of Delaware (MSD) Mission Appeal? Our goal is to reach $6,000 today in total for our two foundations.
Our Mission Appeal provides support for our public service, diversity, advocacy, and education initiatives that help us realize our vision of a healthy Delaware for all. Dr. Varipapa’s recent letter to you provided more detail regarding the Appeal’s accomplishments and aims. We have achieved extraordinary accomplishments in the past year including:
- Assisting 40 practices with a multimillion dollar grant BluePrints grant from Highmark, administered through the Delaware Medical Education Foundation (DMEF) to Delaware independent practicing physicians to enhance primary care.
- Implementation of a hypertension self-monitoring program, offering patients home blood pressure cuffs, support groups, and state-sponsored education classes.
- Supporting seven high school leaders through the APOLLO Youth in Medicine program.
- Saving Delawareans thousands of dollars on prescriptions through our Voluntary Initiative Program.
Your tax-deductible contributions to the Mission Appeal go to either (or both!):
1) Delaware Foundation for Medical Services (DFMS), which helps improve access to essential medical care for the underserved and most vulnerable in our community, like our VIP safety-net initiative with the State of Delaware that connects vulnerable Delawareans with access to health homes, specialists, and badly needed access to no cost or significantly reduced cost medications, and financial support to charitable clinics; or
2) Delaware Medical Education Foundation (DMEF), which improves and expands both medical and public education programs on critical health care-related issues such as timely Hot Topic CMEs,“It’s OBVIOUS … Campaign For Kids,” Apollo Youth in Medicine, Healthy Living Week, and other school-based and workforce education initiatives.
MSD has only been able to achieve and sustain these programs because of generous members like you who work with both DFMS and DMEF and/or give for their continued operation. As the health care landscape evolves, these programs become more crucial to impacting medical education and patient outcomes.
Today, I ask for your best Giving Tuesday, tax-deductible, yearend gift—$50, $75, $100, $250 … or even at the $1,789 Tilton Society level, if you’re able to help us reach our $6,000 goal.
I urge you to consider joining me and so many of your colleagues in making a gift to our Mission Appeal!
The entire team at MSD is grateful for all you do during this challenging time in health care. We are honored to advocate, assist, and represent our members. As your Executive Director, I thank you for your membership and for all you do in our collective efforts to elevate the practice of medicine and secure the health of our state.
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