The ALS Association provides our communities with the following PATIENT SERVICES:
- Available patient services vary by area. Click here for more information about services in our area.
- On-going, in-home consultation and home assessments by patient service staff
- Mobility and home adaptation programs.
- Durable medical equipment loan programs.
- Speech evaluations and communication device programs.
- Support groups for people with ALS, caregivers, families and survivors.
- Advocacy/public policy programs to ensure that legislators at both the state and federal levels are fully aware of the needs of the ALS community
"The Chapter gave us a communication device when my mom couldn’t talk anymore. It kept her in touch with the world."
- Sarah Kistering
The ALS Association directs the most comprehensive RESEARCH program ever organized to find treatments and a cure for ALS:
- Click here for more information about ALS Research Efforts.
- The ALS Association has a 20-year track record of heavy research investment.
- The organization spent $28.5 million on research in the last decade, $13.2 million of which was donated in the last three years.
- Over the next five years, The ALS Association has targeted $37 million for ALS research.
"It's the research that the Association provides that allows me and the other ALS patients to have hope. Hope today… hope in the future… and to never give up.”
- Tommy May, Chairman & CEO, Simmons First Bank
