Healing Arizona Veterans

Healing Arizona Veterans uses donations to sponsor the treatment of military veterans suffering from TBI and PTSD. The treatment will utilize Hyperbaric Oxygen and supplementary therapies at private facilities

Realizing that the Federal Government is not supporting HBOT for treating TBI, and may not do so in the foreseeable future, a number of states have undertaken a grassroots effort to provide HBOT to their veterans. Oklahoma was the first, establishing a Patriot Clinic in 2014 and treating over 400 patients since then. Texas and Indiana passed legislation in 2017 to pilot this treatment. Kentucky is undergoing this process. Fourteen other states are evaluating doing the same. The state of Arizona passed HB2513 in March 2018 in support of this treatment and to provide seed funding for the effort.

Arizona's approach is slightly different from other states. An effort is being made to set up a Private-Public partnership to provide funding for treatment of veterans at two privately owned and operated, six-person HBOT chamber locations, one in Tucson (NorthStar Hyperbaric) and another in Cave Creek (HBOT of Arizona). These two large-capacity chambers can treat close to 300 patients annually. Other providers will be added as the need for treatment grows.

Healing Arizona Veterans (HAV) will pay to treat veterans at privately operated HBOT providers. The costs to fully treat a veteran are $12,000 (80 sessions at $150 per session). HAV will begin treating veterans as the donations come in. HAV will track cost and clinical indicators, before and after the treatment, utilizing mainly objective measures (MRI-DTI and others). After the first 50 veterans are treated, the results will be compiled and made available to current and future donors to demonstrate the returns they are receiving for their donations - "Treat and Track".

The State of Arizona has approved $25,000 (seed money) for this therapy. We require matching charitable contributions of $12,000 per veteran. Your contribution will make this "novel" Arizona approach a reality.

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