Editor,
One in four people will become disabled by the age of 60. That could easily be you or someone you love.
Editor,
One in four people will become disabled by the age of 60. That could easily be you or someone you love.
There is a current trend among nonprofit health care organizations to focus only on acute care services while eliminating chronic care quality of life outpatient programs. Now is the time to prepare for this loss and establish replacement options in our community.
Many individuals with medical conditions, injuries and disabilities are known to benefit from a very specific type of therapy, a therapy no longer available on the Peninsula. Warm water therapy pools are vital to recovery and healing, yet the last such facility, the Mickelson therapy pool at Mills Health Center in San Mateo, was closed over two years ago.
Our community deserves this resource. On this Giving Tuesday, please help us return warm water therapy to the Peninsula.
Warm Water Wellness Inc is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization (EIN 87-4048687) formed by former users of the last remaining facility to promote aquatic therapy services in our area.
To make a donation and for more information about therapy pools, our cause and efforts to bring wellness back to the thousands of people who are suffering. Please visit our website at warmwaterwellness.org.
Lindsay Raike
San Mateo
The letter writer is the CEO of Warm Water Wellness.
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(3) comments
Thank you, Lindsay and Warm Water Wellness, for keeping this significant community resource need in the public discussion. I especially miss our Mickleson Therapy Pool as the daytime temperatures drop into the 50s, making the College of San Mateo pool (outdoors) and even the YMCA pool (indoors but kept cool for lap swimmers, with open doors for ventilation) pretty uncomfortable options. I appreciate all of the support from our county Board of Supervisors, our two Healthcare Districts, and many of our city council members - all have expressed opposition to Sutter Health's precipitous decision to close this community resource. I encourage folks to support the creation of true replacement resources on our local communities - resources that can't be closed by a corporation.
Hello, Lindsay
I have read the many stories in the DJ about folks who struggle because the Mickelson pool shut down. It's beyond sad. I don't know if it's possible, but could the Sequoia Health District provide some funding to open the pool? The district has spent money outside its jurisdiction in the past. Just a thought...
Ray - the SHD gives up to $200K per year for this type of activity but I believe that the demographics play a role in these grants. Perhaps there is a newly elected politician or board member who can now ignore woke and PC to encourage the SDH to finance the pool operation.
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