Make a Difference Day 2006 TriMedx

TriMedx Mission Making a difference in the health and lives of others

Make a Difference Day A national day of helping others – neighbors helping neighbors Over 3 million volunteers each year across the country

Service Ops Projects TriMedx Associates from around the country donated their time in order to make a difference in the health and lives of others Here are just some of the many projects sponsored by our service sites…

St. Thomas Team Participated in Project Cure and American Heart Walk “We may not be able to measure how many lives we affected on this activity, but I know we had a team of 25 that were tremendously affected.” Jonah Aycox

St. John, Detroit Team Participated in Focus: Hope, a civil and human rights organization, preparing food parcels “We enjoyed our time at Focus: Hope and will explore the possibility of contributing to this effort on a regular basis.” Tom Borowiak

Genesys Team Participated in Change for Charity, collecting change to donate to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan “The Food Bank can take the $ and turn it into $1, worth of food. This will help feed many families in our community.” Denice Ayotte-Vaughn

St. Vincent’s Birmingham Team Performed charity service on clinical equipment for the Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center of Birmingham “It was a pleasure to help these people with our expertise, and we can’t wait until the next opportunity to “Make a Difference!”. Jeffrey B. Singleton

Carondelet, AZ Team Performed electrical safety inspections and PAs for St. Elizabeth of Hungary Clinic “With the exception of the administrative staff, all of the workers and physicians at St. Elizabeth are volunteers, including some of our biomed technicians.” Johnnie King

Seton Health Team Assembled 225+ key chains for the Susan G. Komen Foundation to promote breast cancer awareness and prevention “I want to express my thanks for all those who volunteered in Make A Difference Day and for choosing the Susan G. Komen Foundation.” Linda Mendez The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

Sacred Heart Team Repaired home of SHHS employee due to Hurricane Ivan damage. “There are 365 days a year. There should be at least one day when you can help somebody.” Sammie Thomas

TriMedx Central Office Projects BUV Children’s Bureau Lighthouse Mission Jubilee Center Third Phase VA Medical Center

Basic Utility Vehicles Basic Utility Vehicles (BUVs) provide high- quality, low-cost transportation for the working poor in the developing world TriMedx Volunteers worked on building the back end of BUVs. The vehicles will be shipped to Liberia and Haiti 12 volunteers 100 lives impacted

Lighthouse Mission Feeds and houses homeless men, offering a program to get them back on their feet TriMedx volunteers prepared and served meals 19 volunteers 150 lives impacted

Jubilee Center Helps children with special career development, training, after-school activities, mentoring, and more TriMedx volunteers provided paint and supplies as well as their time to repaint the Jubilee Center 18 volunteers 300 lives impacted

Total Impact Over 260 volunteers impacted over 7000 lives! Thank You!