Help a Valley Birth Center

I hope you dont mind me posting this here, but our local birth center, the oldest in Texas, is struggling and needs help. Here is a forwarded letter from Holy Family Birth Center's midwife, Nancy Sandrock.

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Hi Friends,

I am popping in to send out a plea...I am sending this to several lists and folks I know, so I apologize if this is a duplicate, and I also apologize if you are already one of our long time supporters ...

Last year I was asked to come down to Holy Family Services and try to keep it from closing. All the patients had been sent out of the service and there had been no CNM's there full-time for several months. I started seeing patients the week after I got here, and we started having births the next month. It has been a long, sometimes trying year.

I have tried- but I am only one person-. Our staff has been valiant as well. We have updated billing and charges. We have tried our hand at a few fundraisers. We have applied for grants, most of them still pending, many turned down, a few small ones obtained, but none enough to sustain us as yet. Contrary to some thoughts, though Holy Family is on land from the Catholic Diocese, we receive no financial support from the diocese itself, though a few of the parishes try to help us when they are able.

We have been reaching out to our local surrounding communities, but the dollar is not stretching as much for anyone now days.

The bottom line is this 25 year old Free Standing Birth Center, the oldest in Texas, and legendary in midwifery circles because of the legacy of Sister Angela Murdaugh, is very short on funds. We are at a crisis point, and we are praying like crazy that money starts coming in, or we *will* have to face the very real possibility of closing.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE...if you know of a way you, or a group you are associated with can help, PLEASE DO!

We are a 501c3 non-profit corporation- so any funds that can be raised on our behalf are tax-deductible.

Perhaps sponsor a fund-raiser, a garage sale, solicit donations from friends of midwives, we would be so grateful.

Feel free to pass on this plea so that we have a chance to stay open!

Thank You!

Nancy Sandrock, RNC, CNM, MSN
Executive Director, Holy Family Services
5819 N. FM 88
Weslaco, Texas 78596
956-969-2538
www.holyfamilybirthcenter.com

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