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Programs of the Baptist Healing Trust include:
- Caring for the Caregiver,
- The Radical Loving Care Initiative,
- Healing Charity and Servant's Heart Awards
- Collaboration with the Southeastern Council of Foundation’s Health Legacy Foundations.
Caring for the Caregiver is a program sponsored by the Baptist Healing Trust to address the emotional, mental, and spiritual needs of caregivers and medical professionals.
Poet Mary Oliver speaks to us all when she writes about the “busyness” that pervades every aspect of our lives.
The Old Poets of China
Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
By providing respite time for caregivers, the Trust aims to refresh caregivers and rekindle their enthusiasm in the field of healthcare. This main goal of this program is to directly address “caregiver burnout” and “compassion fatigue” that caregivers sometimes experience while trying to provide loving care for their patients.
Currently, Dr. Keith Hagan, M.D., Dr. Roy Elam, M.D., Dr. Cheryl Fassler, M.D., and Dr. Liz Krueger, M.D., are graciously serving as the Steering Committee to this program as the Trust attempts to implement this program with local physicians.
The Committee has chosen to take a two-fold approach in implementing the physician’s program, which will include quarterly retreats and monthly meetings. The monthly meetings, called Meaning in Medicine, occur the first Tuesday of each month and are co-sponsored by The Tennessee Medical Foundation. Additionally, since 2005, Courage to Heal retreats have been held quarterly and receive CMG credits through the Vanderbilt Dept. of Continuing Medical Education. In 2007 the Courage to Heal program introduced its first overnight retreat. If you are interested in learning more about these programs, please contact us or contact one of the physicians on the Steering Committee.
In 2007 The Trust began offering quarterly retreats for non-physician caregivers titled Healing for the Healer. These are free half day retreats offered to caregivers to experience renewal, support, and appreciation for the hard work they do day in and day out. Specifically, a time for a brief retreat is available to any direct caregiver who is interested in a time of refreshment, reflection, and community building among other caregivers in the Middle Tennessee region. Please contact us to register for a Healing for the Healer Retreat.
The Radical Loving Care initiative is under the direction of Erie Chapman, the Baptist Healing Trust’s president and chief executive officer. Mr. Chapman, based on his thirty years of experience in the field of healthcare, brings to light a radical notion that American healthcare is falling down on the job of healing. The great unfinished business of healthcare is not curing, but healing. Most of America's healthcare leaders are living a lie. They are promising loving care to the public in mission statements and then making no meaningful effort to ensure that care is actually practiced.
Mr. Chapman and the Baptist Healing Trust spread the message and the practice of radical loving care to those in the healthcare field by working with health related non-profits in the Middle Tennessee area as well as hospitals all across America.
A key element of the Radical Loving Care initiative is the concept of a "Healing Hospital." A Healing Hospital is about loving service to others. It is about recognizing something that has increasingly been forgotten amid the flood of complex technology and magic-bullet drugs that now dominate America's hospitals. It is about the compassion and skill that must accompany the use of this technology and these pharmaceuticals. And it is about the kind of leadership needed to support the underappreciated caregivers who staff America's hospitals.
The model of the Healing Hospital is adaptable to any organization focused on healing and health. Any organization that seeks to serve can benefit from the concepts and methods of Radical Loving Care. Examples of organizations that are already utilizing the loving care model are Alive Hospice, Magdalene, Campus for Human Development, Siloam Family Healthcare Center and Interfaith Dental Clinic. The Trust also employs a grant making program, called Baptist Healing Trust Partnership Grants, in order to provide funding for local organizations seeking to implement Radical Loving Care concepts and methods in their organizations.
To read more about Radical Loving Care, click here…
The Healing Charity™ Award
The Baptist Healing Trust has created a Healing Charity™ Award to recognize a local nonprofit where love and compassion characterize its delivery of service. A Healing Charity™ demonstrates:
- A culture of Radical Loving Care;
- Focus on excellence and loving compassionate care;
- Service to the vulnerable and underserved;
- Recognition of the humanity and dignity of each individual encountered.
The Healing Charity™ agency winner will receive a $10,000 award. Two finalist agencies will each receive $1000 awards. Please visit the Center for Nonprofit Management's website to learn how to apply.
The Servant's Heart™ Award
The Baptist Healing Trust has created a Servant's Heart™ Award to recognize individuals who are providing care and/or assistance to the clients of a nonprofit agency and who are on the "front lines" of service provision. A Servant's Heart™ is an individual who has a pssion to serve, takes the extra steps to ensure that people's needs are met, and has a deep commitment to the organization's values, mission, and vision. The intention of this award is to recognize individuals who demonstrate the qualities of a Servant's Heart™ over time and not necessarily as the result of a single, heroic act.
The Servant's Heart™ award winner will receive $10,000 to be split in equal portions between the nominating organization and the individual Servant's Heart™ winner. Two finalists will each receive $1000 awards to be split equally between the nominating organization and the finalist. Please visit the Center for Nonprofit Management's website to learn how to apply.
The Southeastern Council of Foundations organizes peer-networking meetings for its sixty hospital conversion or health legacy foundations. The goal of this network is for these foundations to work together to address issues and opportunities that are unique to health legacy foundations in the southeastern region of the United States. These health legacy foundations share common goals: to strengthen philanthropy in a distinct geographic region and address health needs and policy in that specific region. It is the hope of Trust that by partnering with other health legacy foundations, the Trust will have a greater impact and larger influence on regional issues and policy, including issues that directly affect healthcare in Middle Tennessee.
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