What We Support:
Gives
These are the opportunities that we seek to make the journey easier for our patients and their families. Examples include: necessities like parking, gas, money, help with groceries, fun/respite things like sending a family out to dinner and the movies, spa days, birthday or anniversary celebrations, or a night out in a hotel. View some of our Gives below:
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Although she couldn’t leave the hospital, a beautiful wedding was arranged by the nurses for this patient and her fiancé. The ceremony was officiated by Katrina Scott of MGH Chaplaincy in the Lunder 10 lounge.
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Making a wedding that takes place in a hospital feel special is made much easier with the help of Danielle Keefe (thanks also goes to Kelly O’Keefe!), who provided hair and makeup to make this special day feel a little more special.
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Picking out a pair of our signature "blings." Since 2011, we have partnered with Jojo Loves You and sold close to 4,000 pairs (that’s $40,000 raised!!) to our friends and co-workers. We give out blings when patients lose their hair or are having a bad day, and each pair sold through Caring For A Cure donates $10 back into the fund.
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Real tissues do matter. Since 2012 patients newly diagnosed with leukemia have been greeted with a basket full of essentials for their extended stay, including blankets, tissues and Chapstick.
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A little extra love for the new baby of a patient who was hospitalized for leukemia treatment during his birth.
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When his nurses realized that a college senior would spend his big day in the hospital, they pulled together a special graduation celebration for him in the lounge.
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A small and sweet celebration for the final day of chemo.
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Thanks to the kindness of James Taylor himself and our #1 Babe, Jessica Kensky, patients and their nurses spent a very special night at Fenway Park.
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What started with a tweet from her nurse ended up as a dream come true for an incredible patient.
Research
Caring for the Cure is supporting the Mass General Cancer Center Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Survivorship program by providing funding to ensure adequate social work resources for the program. Social workers play a critical role in the Mass General Cancer Center BMT Survivorship program including:
- Conducting a comprehensive psychosocial assessment on transplant survivors
- Providing supportive counseling for transplant survivors with significant psychological distress
- Participating in studies of interventions to promote the physical and psychological well-being of caregivers (i.e. family and friends) of transplant survivors
- Leading educational workshops for patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease
Learn more about Caring For A Cure's work in these videos.
Each year, Mass General Cancer Center nurses run the Boston Marathon in honor of patients and families as part of the Caring For A Cure team. In this video, Krista Scorsune, NP shares why she's running in honor of her patient Janelle Tobin.
Caring For A Cure is done on the nurses’ own time, but has impact far beyond what the group had dreamed.
10 Mass General nurses ran the 2016 Boston Marathon as members of the Caring For A Cure Team.
In 2014 Caring For A Cure was honored as part of the 100 for helping change the fight against cancer. Watch this video to learn more about their work.