Welcome
Bobby Schindler is President of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, Senior Fellow at Americans United for Life, and Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Bobby advocates for the medically vulnerable in honor of Terri Schiavo, his sister. He speaks internationally, and can be booked for speaking through Catholic Speakers Organization.
Advocating for
medically vulnerable persons
As a result of my experiences fighting for my sister Terri, I’ve devoted my life to advocacy for medically vulnerable persons. Since 2005, through our non-profit organization, the Terri Schaivo Life & Hope Network, we’ve assisted more than 3,000 patients and families in crisis with the resources they’ve needed to fight for their loved ones. I’m grateful for your willingness to learn how these vulnerable persons face denial/withdraw of care by their physicians, hospitals, and insurance companies—those very people and institutions that should be helping them.
Few Stroke, Brain Injury Survivors Get Top-Quality Hospital Rehab
(HealthDay News) — Few people who’ve suffered a stroke or brain injury are being offered top-quality, hospital-based rehab, a new study says. Only about 22% of patients who’ve suffered a stroke, brain injury or spinal cord injury are sent to inpatient rehabilitation following their hospitalization, researchers reported June 10 in the journal Neurology Open Access. […]
New Book Shares Brain Injury Survivors’ Personal Recovery Journeys
(NR Times) – ‘Head-to-Head – Our Stories’ brings together personal accounts from patients affected by brain injury. It shares how they have used techniques with the help of the Trust’s community brain injury team’s occupational therapists to navigate life after rehabilitation. Romayne Orr, occupational therapist in the community brain team, said the project had been […]
Independent Doctors Demand Texas Children’s Hospital Give Annelise Camp Every Opportunity to Live
(IMA) – The Independent Medical Alliance (IMA), a national coalition representing more than 12,000 independent physicians, researchers, and clinicians, today issued an urgent statement demanding Texas Children’s Hospital cease its pressure campaign against the parents of Annelise Camp, a two-year-old near-drowning patient currently fighting for her life, and honor the family’s right to pursue every […]
