For All the Ways You Care Grand Prize Winner - Pat Pumphret

Pat Pumphret is the Grant Prize Winner in the CVS/pharmacy "For All the Ways You Care" contest. Pat was nominated by a friend with an essay titled, A Place to Live, A Place to Die, which recounts Pats 30-plus years as a provider and foster parent for severely disabled and chronically ill children. For these needy children whose parents are unable to care for them due to issues such as addiction or mental illness, Pat offers a place to live and thrive outside of hospitals and nursing homes, ensures they get the care they need from doctors and therapists, and provides the love and warmth of a family. Pat hopes her story will inspire others to become foster parents and open up their homes to children like those she has spent her life caring for. If mine is the only home they will ever know, I want to make it the best home I can, she said.

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[EliotRNess]

30 Years of service my ass. Who cares what a good she does now. Why wasn't DSS doing investigations in the 1980's when my sister and I were under her care. My mother & grandparents reported her and her now deceased ex-husband Paul Sr. for many instances off physical abuse. I still have scars (physical, mental, emotional) from what her and her family did.