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The Patients' Aid Fund

Creator: n/a
Date: March 1933
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives


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Sponsored by the Polio Crusaders

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The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation is a non-profit making organization. After-treatment for infantile paralysis (anterior poliomyelitis) is given at Warm Springs at cost rates.

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The Patients' Aid Fund is for the benefit of those unable to pay the cost rates.

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The Patients' Aid Fund is administered by a committee of the trustees of the Foundation, of whom Franklin D. Roosevelt is the head.

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Aid is granted only to those who are worthy and then for a limited period of time, subject to renewal if the progress of the individual warrants extension.

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These grants are made as loans, repayable when and if the individual is financially able to do so.

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The maximum aid extended is one-half the cost rate. The balance must be procured by the individual, relatives and friends or the community from which the individual comes. This ruling is necessary because we must serve individuals from all over the country without the benefit of any local Community Chest or charitable funds.

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Surely every individual who has been at Warm Springs, or who has otherwise been brought into contact with this work will want to participate.

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All but one dollar of your contribution to the Polio Crusaders goes to this Patients' Aid Fund. That dollar brings you the Polio Chronicle for one year, and helps the Polio Crusaders' general educational campaign against infantile paralysis.

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Make checks payable to Polio Crusaders, Warm Springs, Georgia.

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