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Where do you turn when your life changes dramatically due to an illness or accident?
When you need to put your life back together in a way you never dreamed? What if you need to re-learn how to walk or feed yourself?
Adult Rehabilitation Therapy can help and is crucial to returning a patient to a full, productive life.
Jack Schick knows this better than most. In the fall of 1998 a devastating disease called Necrotizing Fasciitis
(better known as the flesh-eating bacteria) struck Jack.
Jack was extremely lucky. No one expected him to survive this dreadful disease, especially the doctors.
He is a true medical miracle. Now he wants to give something back to our community. He has brought together a group of friends
to create the "Jack Schick Fund" to benefit Sparrow’s Adult Inpatient Rehabilitation program and
research into this deadly disease.
The Sparrow Adult Inpatient Rehabilitation Therapy Department
provides all aspects of physical rehabilitation therapy including physical, occupational,
speech therapy, and recreational therapy. The unit includes a "condo" to help patients prepare for
their return home. They can plan and prepare meals, practice getting in and out of a "regular" bed and bathtub.
There are also community reintegration programs including shopping trips to purchase the food for the meals they will prepare in the condo.
Adult Rehab Therapy helps people in all aspects of their life, including leisure time. Sparrow sponsors an adaptive golf class each year to give persons with a disability the opportunity to re-learn (or learn)
to play golf using special adaptive golf equipment.
The Jack Schick Fund will benefit programs, provide equipment and fund continuing education for Adult Rehabilitation.
The Jack Schick Fund will also be used for research on Necrotizing Fasciitis, working with the Michigan State Laboratory and Michigan’s major universities.
Gifts of any amount are welcomed throughout the year. Donors making a commitment to joining the
Jack Schick Fund may pay once or in annual installments over ten years. Members will receive a gift acknowledging their
generous contribution. Those joining at the Visionary Level will also receive recognition on the Donor Wall of Honor located in the lobby of Sparrow Hospital.
Please contact the Sparrow Foundation office at 517.364.5680 for more information regarding this giving opportunity or to request a Jack Schick Fund brochure.
All accrued annual interest from gifts will be rewarded to the fund on an annual basis.
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