Our Mission
In Sickness and In Health is a NJ nonprofit corporation
whose mission is to promote health and well-being in underserved communities, both in the United States and internationally,
through projects devoted to improving access to health care, quality of health care, and health literacy.
Dr. Lee Shearer and John Radice founded In Sickness and In Health
in 2007. The organization focuses on addressing health care disparities and seeks to support projects
such as outreach, education, humanitarian relief, disease prevention, and health promotion.
In Sickness and In Health aims to fund projects in which its founders
are actively involved, dedicating their time, thought, and energy, and, importantly, allowing for close monitoring of projects.
For example, in 2007 Lee worked on the medical wards at Princess Marina Hospital, the main public hospital in Gaborone, the
capital of Botswana. The cover story of the March/April 2007 Pennsylvania Gazette profiles the Penn Medicine in Botswana program. In Sickness and
In Health's current project involves funding a hand-hygiene program at Princess Marina Hospital. Please see Organization
News, below, for details.
Other examples
of projects that In Sickness and In Health may pursue include:
--funding a local outreach project to encourage
underserved urban youth to participate in health screenings
--paying the printing costs for informational health-brochures
in a free health clinic’s waiting room
--supporting a health-literacy seminar series for seniors with chronic
disease
--providing medical supplies to a humanitarian relief mission in a developing country
Please
consider supporting In Sickness and In Health and the positive change it hopes to achieve.
Organization News
In Sickness and In Health has provided funding to ensure that anti-microbial hand-wash
is regularly available to health providers and patients at Princess Marina Hospital in Botswana. The first shipment
of hand-wash arrived at the hospital this Spring and has been installed in six different medical wards. The project
has been enthusiastically received, and we are working closely with the Infection Control Office at the hospital to design
an educational hand-hygiene curriculum and a surveillance tool to assess hand-hygiene complience. We had an on-the-ground
intern collaborating on the project in Gaborone this summer and hope to have another intern this year.
Regular hand washing cuts infection transmission rates dramatically, and given the low cost, offers
a fantastic return on investment. This type of project is precisely the type of targeted, efficient, and effective
work that In Sickness and In Health will continue to fund.
Our Commitment to Our Contributors
In Sickness and In Health pledges to our contributors
that all donations go directly to fund our programs. The founders cover the administrative costs so that 100% of
your donations go where you intend--to the beneficiaries of our programs.
Care to Donate?
If so, to contribute online please select an amount from the drop-down menu
below.
Alternately, you may contribute via personal check, made out to “In Sickness and In Health,”
and mail it to:
In Sickness and In Health
c/o John Radice
6 Dennick Court
Princeton, New Jersey
08540
In Sickness and In Health is a tax exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code, and donations made to In Sickness and In Health are deductible to the full extent permitted by law.
If you have questions or need a copy of our exemption letter, please
contact us.If your employer has a matching-gift program or if you would like to discuss
a gift of appreciated securities, please
email or call us at 646-245-8502 prior to donating.
