CURRENT
PROJECTS:
The Grossman Burn Foundation will be opening a nonprofit reconstructive
surgery and burn center in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2008. This facility
will help numerous burn victims awaiting treatment in this region of
the world in addition to making available quality medical treatment
for injured military personnel awaiting transport back to the States.
In
2008, Dr. Peter Grossman helped to develop a software program for a
company that specializes in providing field data collection and management
tools to disaster relief workers in remote and disconnected environments.
Their Rapid Data Management System (RDMS)® will allow photographs
of burn victims in remote places to be transmitted in real-time over
satellite connections to a secure website that may be accessed by burn
surgeons anywhere in the world. This technology will permit a new brand
of “telemedicine” that will empower burn surgeons with the
ability to view rapid assessments of burn victims from first responders
in the US and disaster relief personnel overseas, allowing them to speed
assistance and medical advice to the field as never before.
In addition, The Grossman Burn Foundation is in the process of creating
a Humanitarian Assistance “How To” Manual which will be
provided to any and all nonprofit organizations, NGO's and humanitarian
organizations worldwide with regard to obtaining help, step by step,
for individuals in a critical situation.
PROJECT
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OBJECTIVES
A. To provide financial aid, public education, health care resources,
treatment and advocate support for burn victims and their families.
B.
Program Partnerships with other nonprofit organizations that focus on
health, safety and education in various areas.
Major
Activities:
As we expand our services nationwide it will be necessary to provide
financial aid and advocate support to victims of a burn injury that
have no other means of sustainability with regard to medical attention
and ongoing healthcare, physically and emotionally. In addition, it
is our hopes that medical training/burn care will be provided for clinics
or hospitals that provide services in impoverished countries worldwide.
Narrative
Dr. Peter H. Grossman, surgeon and associate director of the world-renowned
Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks, California, and his wife, Rebecca
Grossman, became legal guardians for a young burn victim from Afghanistan.
Her name was Zubaida Hasan. After living through the many trials and
tribulations of loving a child that had been severely burned and endured
13 reconstructive surgeries, psychotherapy, rehabilitation and social
and educational challenges, they created The Grossman Burn Foundation
(GBF) in hopes of providing financial aid, healthcare and ongoing treatments
and support for the physical and emotional needs of other burn victims
and their families worldwide.
Current
Programs:
We
are dedicated to proactively educating communities worldwide in prevention
and first aid treatment of burns. An expert burn care team provides
essential services to patients worldwide with various burn-related programs.
We participate in local-area fire service days, emergency preparedness
fairs and numerous health and safety fairs offering citizens burn prevention
tactics, first aid tips and emergency burn management. These courses
are designed to educate area hospitals and clinics and medical personnel
on preliminary assessment and treatment, emergency care and preparation
of patients for treatment.
Various fundraising events are held to raise money for financial aid
to patients who do not have the resources for medical treatments and
rehabilitation. We offer additional education to community medical personnel
on first aid priorities and initial burn care.
We recognize each organization's unique needs when they provide burn
awareness programs for area businesses, community groups, professional
and nonprofit organizations and hospitals and clinics worldwide.
