Education and Prevention
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Prevention:
Providing burn and fire prevention programs to schools and other community organizations.
Providing burn prevention information to the public
Education:
Supporting burn care seminars for nurses, health care professionals and student nurses.
Participating in regional and national conferences of burn prevention and treatment issues.
Treatment:
Covering the cost of burn pressure garments and other specialized treatments for uninsured patients.
Recovery:
Sponsoring (3) free summer camps for children 8 to 18 years of age who have been treated for burn injuries at the Regional Burn Centers.
Proving Burn Buddies –empathy dolls- to pediatric burn patients to ease the anxiety of their hospitalization and assisting them in understanding the whys and how’s of changing their wound dressings.