Gretchen Lizza reads to her son, Tony, and daughter, Ali. Tony's struggle with leukemia led Lizza to help establish Nightingale House, a facility providing affordable living quarters and a comforting atmosphere to seriously ill patients and their family members.
The first compassionate care house in the Department of Defense was the dream of a scientist at the Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Lab at Wright-Patterson on a humanitarian assignment.Captain Gretchen Lizza thought of the idea for the Nightingale House when her son, Tony, was diagnosed with leukemia.
The first compassionate care house in the Department of Defense was the dream of a scientist at the Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Lab at Wright-Patterson on a humanitarian assignment.Captain Gretchen Lizza thought of the idea for the Nightingale House when her son, Tony, was diagnosed with leukemia.
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The first volunteer Board was formed shortly after opening the Nightingale House. It provided financial support and ensured the future of the founders' dream for an affordable on base home-away-from-home for military families in medical crisis. In 1990 these dedicated founders, led by Capt. Gretchen Lizza, established and became the first members of the Nightingale House Support Association, a private, non-profit charitable organization.
Program expenses for 2020 were identified as $496,631 (or 94.37% of total expenses). The Better Business Bureau (BBB) standard is that the organization must obligate at least 65% of its expenses to the Program expense area. The BBB standard is that the organization must obligate no more than 35% of its expenses to Fund-raising and Administrative expense areas.
The Broxson Award, named after Dr. Emmet Broxson, Director of the Pediatrics Specialty Clinic, Wright-Patterson AFB Medical Center from 1988 to 1996, was established by the founder of the original Nightingale House, Capt. Gretchen Lizza. The award recognizes an individual on the Wright-Patterson Medical Center staff who most significantly touched the lives of families residing at the Wright-Patt Fisher Houses with compassion and support.
Hope could be the single most important service that the Fisher Houses provide. Two of these Compassionate Care Houses are located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, adjacent to the Wright-Patterson Medical Center, and one at the Dayton VA Medical Center. The mission of the Houses is to provide an affordable on-base refuge close to their respective Medical Centers for patients and their families.
After a brief two-day recuperation stay at the Fisher House Compassionate Care Facility on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Milligan was rushed back to Miami Valley Hospital due to post-surgery complications where he spent an additional 12 days. Local rest and recuperation was then required after the second emergency procedure; Milligan returned to the Fisher House, joining one of two daughters, for what would be a three-to-four week stay.
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