The foundation we build on.
As the charitable arm supporting the broader mission of Accessia Health, the Accessia Health Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization, harnesses the power of philanthropy to help improve the quality of life and access to care for people living with complex health conditions.
Through the generosity of individuals, corporations, foundations, and community partners, the Foundation supports initiatives that reduce barriers to care, strengthen patient support services, and advance resources for individuals and families navigating rare and chronic health conditions. Equally important, the Foundation helps sustain and strengthen the long-term mission of Accessia Health, ensuring its legacy of service, compassion, and support continues to make a meaningful difference for years to come.
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Who We Are
Accessia Health is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with chronic and rare health conditions access the care they need. We believe health should not depend on income, location, or circumstance. Our work is rooted in compassion, equity, and the understanding that stability is essential to healing.
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What We Do
We remove financial and practical barriers that stand between patients and treatment. Through direct assistance, education, and advocacy, we help individuals and families navigate complex health care challenges so they can focus on their health instead of the cost of staying well.
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Why Support Our Work
When you support the Accessia Health Foundation, you help ensure that access to care becomes a reality for someone facing an already difficult diagnosis. Your generosity brings stability, dignity, and hope to people who should never have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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How To Get Involved
There are many meaningful ways to be part of this work. You can make a one-time gift, become a monthly supporter, join our legacy community, attend or sponsor fundraising events, start a peer-to-peer campaign, explore employer matching opportunities, or engage your company’s employee resource groups. However you choose to participate, you are not simply supporting a mission. You are helping build a future where access to care is within reach for all.
Steady Support That Keeps Care Within Reach
Give Monthly
Access Partners are a community of supporters who believe that access to care should never depend on timing, circumstance, or financial disruption.
By giving monthly, members provide consistent, dependable support that allows the Accessia Health Foundation to be there for individuals and families when they need it most during moments of uncertainty, transition, and vulnerability.
Monthly giving creates stability. It helps ensure that patients facing chronic and rare medical conditions can continue care, navigate insurance challenges, and maintain dignity when costs become overwhelming. Rather than responding only in crisis moments, members help build a reliable foundation of care and access all year long.
As a member, your generosity becomes part of a continuous safety net – quietly working in the background to protect access to care and provide stability when it matters most.
This isn’t about a single moment of generosity. It’s about being present, month after month, so others don’t have to face uncertainty alone.
Your support provides the steady foundation that makes access possible – today, tomorrow, and beyond.
A mix for every moment.
At Accessia Health Foundation, we believe support can take many forms. Sometimes, it starts with something as simple as pressing play.
There’s something about autumn that invites us to slow down, settle in, and enjoy the moment. A Mix for Every Moment: Autumn Edition is a soundtrack for the season and all the feelings that come with it. Songs that bring to mind leaves turning brilliant shades of red, orange, and gold. The familiar smell of comfort food coming from the kitchen. A quiet evening with the lights turned down low and a fire glowing nearby. Whistling winds, piles of leaves, and watching them tumble down the street on a crisp afternoon.
It’s music for relaxing on your own, spending time with someone special, gathering with friends, taking a long drive, or simply enjoying a little time to yourself.
Like the season itself, this collection is warm, familiar, reflective, and maybe even a little nostalgic. So, settle in, press play, and enjoy A Mix for Every Moment: Autumn Edition.
** If you don’t have a Spotify account, you can create a free one.
Board Member Recruitment
Accessia Health Foundation is expanding its impact and inviting recommendations for new members of our Board of Directors. As we deepen partnerships across healthcare, philanthropy, patient advocacy, and industry, strong board leadership is essential to advancing better health outcomes for the communities we serve.
Our Board is committed to integrating population health strategies into every aspect of our work. Board members provide strategic oversight, strengthen fundraising and donor engagement efforts, and steward the Foundation’s assets to ensure long term sustainability and growth.
If you know a leader who brings vision, integrity, and a passion for improving access to care, we welcome your recommendation.
Real Life Impact
Read a story. Get inspired.
Catch up on the real-life stories of patients, providers, and donors.
Matthew Long
“It’s been such a relief and weight off our plates to know that our son has decent insurance with Accessia Health’s help and allows us to focus on providing him a childhood that allows him to grow socially, emotionally, and physically healthy.”
Tami T. Queen
“I just wanted to let you know how thankful my family is that there are organizations like yours. My mom, Emily Thompson, lost her battle on December 31, 2021, but fought hard. She would have never been able to afford to keep doing her [treatments] if it weren’t for you.”
Karen Minassian
“I cannot say enough positive comments regarding the service Accessia Health gives to their patients. Without their help, we would not have been able to have the medication needed to keep my husband here with me and our family for another two years after his diagnosis of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.”
Debbie Fox
“Accessia Health helps with my insurance premiums and medicine copays. As an HAE patient, this means I have access to the treatments that allow me to enjoy my birthday at the beach with my daughter (also living with HAE) and neither of us has to worry about having a swell!”
Wesley Hatfull
“Accessia Health not only helps individuals with the astronomical cost of some drugs; I would say they are helping to save lives. On behalf of myself and my mother, thank you for the assistance you have provided and for making the process simple and easy. Best wishes to everyone at Accessia Health who makes this service possible.”
James Stonack
“The dedicated individuals at Accessia Health had given me the green light, and I have realized that people out there care and want to support people with really compromising chronic conditions. With their help, I can continue my treatment. It has had a tremendous impact on myself and my family. I can’t say thank you enough for what Accessia Health does.”
David Davis
“I was diagnosed with Alpha-1 in 1991. Accessia Health stepped in and filled the gaps. Not having to go into a hospital these last two pandemic years probably saved my life. The process to apply for assistance was very smooth, and everyone at Accessia Health has been great!”
Amy Smith
“I was diagnosed with Hereditary Angioedema a few years ago. Accessia Health has been an amazing support to me throughout my HAE journey! They have eliminated the stress of how to pay for my medication, hospital visits, doctor visits, and travel expenses to see HAE specialists. It’s obvious they truly care about patients.
Living with and managing this rare disease can often feel like a rollercoaster. Some days I feel like a warrior. Some days I feel like a broken mess. Many days I feel like a combination of both. But every day I will get up, fight, and try for this beautiful gift of life.”
Patricia Been
“Without the help of Accessia Health, I wouldn’t have the insurance or health care that I need, not only to improve my quality of life, but to extent my life span as well. Accessia Health made that much difference in my life, and I will forever be thankful beyond words.”
Lynn Whelan
“I was diagnosed with a Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) in 2010. It had metastasized to the liver already, surgery was not an option, and I was considered terminal. My only hope was taking an oral biologic to try to possibly shrink the tumors and give me more time. That drug was $14,000 a month. Without Accessia Health, I could never have taken it. With it, I am still alive today, 11.5 years later. I owe my life to Accessia Health!”
