AUSTIN'S NEED

AUSTIN -The Rosy Health Care Foundation targets the needs of the some of the most destitute of populations, the elderly and minorities facing economic difficulties, the majority of which are women. RHCF approaches each demographic in distinct ways, understanding that this kind of care is a family affair. Normally, when a patient is homebound due to progressed cancer or heart disease, she is the focus. The health care aid, whether it is a spouse, sibling, child or neighbor is dealing with immense stress, mostly related to limitations in time, resources and skills. They face these challenges without relief all while being there for a love one.

Provisions like this on not made by insurance companies. RHCF's first objective is to bring care, training and support of the community to the home of the patient and provider. Our efforts are very grass-roots and customized to each patient, but very simply we are connecting the community at large with individual care-givers, as well as providing the needed medical training to help.

Rosy Health Care Foundation is especially attentive to the growing population of uninsured Hispanics emigrating for the United States seeking work and citizenship. This increasing population is disproportionate to the shrinking benefit packages offered by employers and fewer full-time jobs. Low-income Hispanic families are much more likely to be without health insurance than other Americans.

A study by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York based policy research organization found that 65 percent of Hispanic adults living on less than $28,000 per year were without insurance for all or part of the year. That compares with 49 percent for low-income African Americans and 48 percent for whites. The study explains also how Hispanics enrollment in Medicaid fluctuates with their fortunes, leaving some without insurance for part of the year, making “it difficult for low-income Hispanics to seek preventative medicine such as mammogram's and dental exams or keep a regular doctor.” The foundation has built in initiatives to serve this population, whose female contingent are especially susceptible to diabetes, HIV infection and heart disease.

An economist interested in deconstructing the abstract relationship between healthcare costs and reaching the people and a long-term health care provider and educator, Sunny and Rosy are qualified with decades of experience assisting the African American and Hispanic community, the majority of their clientele. They are eager to continue cultivating prevention methods in the community with some simple achievable tactics.

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