BAMF Health provides advanced diagnostics and treatment for various types of cancer. It created the Foundation for Medical Advancement and Breakthroughs, or FMAB, to support three key initiatives: patient access, education, and research. COO Chad Bassett explains how the foundation began through donations:
“Unsolicited, we started having patients send checks directly to BAMF Health, and we had no way of accepting those, and so really the foundation grew first out of necessity and because we were delivering really phenomenal care to patients.”
The FMAB is also benefitting from a donation from the Kid Rock Foundation. Kid Rock, who’s real name is Bob Ritchie, is the first major donor to the non-profit. Ritchie’s father, William, received treatment from BAMF Health during a years-long battle with prostate cancer. Though William passed away, Ritchie says his family’s positive experience with BAMF Health moved him to donate.
“And if this treatment would have been available to his father three, five, ten years ago, both they and us believe there would be a different outcome.”
You can learn more about the foundation online at BAMFhealth.com/Foundation.
