I want to thank you for learning more about this unique opportunity at Mount Sinai Hospital to improve care for people in our community seeking emergency treatment for mental health and addictions.
I’m sure you have a family member, co-worker or friend who can’t stop drinking although you know they have huge reserves of willpower. These people close to us often suffer anxiety, depression or other mental illnesses. Hospital Emergency Departments (EDs) serve as a 24/7 front door to the health-care system for people struggling with mental illness and addictions.
That’s why I am championing a world-first endowed Chair in Emergency Medicine Addiction and Mental Health at Mount Sinai Hospital. It is critical that we improve the ED experience for this marginalized group, to ultimately deliver life-changing care.
This Chair will be held by a dynamic clinician-researcher in the field of emergency addiction and mental health care. The Chair will spearhead studies to identify, understand and remedy shortcomings in emergency care that are impacting the health of people with mental illness and addiction.
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Why is this cause so important to me?
I lost my 13-year-old brother to a 16-year-old drunk driver, but that life-changing event never stopped me from drinking and driving – often driving in a blackout having no idea what I had done.
I was 41, and even though I had a successful business of 18 years, I could not stop drinking. This would often start with vodka out of the freezer at 6 a.m., and I would sometimes be drunk twice in one day. I knew myself as someone with huge reserves of willpower, so it was hard to understand why I could not stop. I had an obsession and compulsion that always overpowered me. Underlying all this was bipolar disorder, which could not be diagnosed until I was sober.
I have been sober for over 30 years, thanks in large part to having received great care. Too many Canadians with mental illness and addictions are not receiving the type of emergency or post-ED follow up care they so desperately need, leading to prolonged illness and suffering.
Together, we can change the outcomes for your loved ones who may be suffering.
Help us enhance care for these patients at Mount Sinai and across the country by supporting the Chair in Emergency Medicine Addiction and Mental Health. We cannot reach the $3 million required to endow this Chair without support from generous donors like you.
With gratitude,
Judy Wells
