CF Vests Worldwide Featured on ABC News
In celebration of our 5th year anniversary, CF Vests Worldwide was featured on ABC News affiliate Apple Valley News Now! During this special segment, we highlighted our mission to provide essential airway clearance equipment to individuals across the USA whose insurance does not cover their prescribed therapy vest, as well as children in foster care who may loose access to their equipment during changes in placement or coverage. We believe no one should go without life saving respiratory care because of financial or insurance barriers.
Discover how CF Vests Worldwide began its mission in 2020 and the inspiring journey of Joshua Bauder, our Chief Strategy Officer, with Shiloh Children. Tune into Breathe Easy Podcast as Rod and Josh share the story behind our mission and the impact of bringing vests to those in need around the world.
CF Vests Worldwide improves the health and survival of people living with cystic fibrosis by providing access to life-sustaining respiratory therapy equipment. By donating Hill Rom, Smartvest and Philips RespirTech Cystic Fibrosis vests, nebulizers, and portable oxygen concentrators, we help patients reduce lung infections, preserve lung function, and avoid preventable hospitalizations.
** CF Vests Worldwide provides domestic pre-paid shipping labels for all Cystic Fibrosis vests and equipment donated to us! **
Our work turns unequal access into better breathing, better health, and longer lives.
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Our mission at CF Vests Worldwide, a 501(c)(3) corporation, to benefit Cystic Fibrosis patients around the world is accomplished through donations - either monetary donations or by way of donated medical equipment. If you have equipment to donate, please contact us here. And if you are in need of donated medical equipment, please contact us here.
CF Vests Worldwide provides an IRS tax-deduction letter for the value of donated equipment.
Some may say CF Vests Worldwide was spawned though coincidence, while others say there is no such thing as coincidence.
In early January 2020, a young lady with Cystic Fibrosis living in Chile, whom Rod had never met, contacted him on social media, and asked if he had a Vest to donate. After some thought, Rod realized he could donate his own, as he no longer needed it post-transplant. Two or three weeks later, another Cystic Fibrosis patient, this time in Lebanon, also one whom Rod (our Founder) had never met, contacted him via social media, and requested a Vest. After posting the ask on Facebook, a young lady with Cystic Fibrosis in Ohio offered to donate hers which she no longer needed, and Rod was fortunate to facilitate the transfer.
Rod began to think there must be a wider gap in our community beyond just these two he had observed, and one that could be filled by the transfer of Vests from Cystic Fibrosis patients who no longer needed them, to those in our community who are without the means of obtaining this life-extending tool.
Seeing that, the vision of a quest to fill this void between the Vest haves and have nots in our Cystic Fibrosis community was formed. Accordingly, in June 2020, CF Vests Worldwide, a 501(c)(3) corporatation, was created.
Meat The CFVWW Team
Rod Spadinger
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Founder
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Vice President
Joshua Bauder
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Treasurer
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Chief Strategy Officer
Kerry & Alex Juliano Francu
Project Manager
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CF Vests Worldwide is a Proud Member of the Cystic Fibrosis Global Advocacy Alliance
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