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We host six Surgery Weekends annually where volunteer medical professionals transform the lives of children with deformities through reconstructive surgery. Fresh Start’s one-of-a-kind comprehensive approach to medical treatments also includes Laser Clinics, Dental Clinics and a Speech Therapy Clinic. All are provided to patients in order to best address each patient’s individual medical treatment needs. Fresh Start maintains long-term medical relationships with patients, as they often require extensive follow up and years of surgeries and medical services until the best medical outcome has been reached.
FRESH START Facts • Since incorporation in 1991, Fresh Start has provided over $37 million worth of free medical services. • On average, 400 patients receive Fresh Start’s medical services each year. • Fresh Start’s Foundation, launched in 2005, allows 100% of contributions to go directly to Fresh Start’s
medical programs. • In total, over 7,700 children have received fresh starts. • Over 300 volunteers help Fresh Start run its medical programs each year, including more than 200 local medical volunteers and 100 non-medical volunteers. • Fresh Start’s patients come from across the U.S. and the globe, but all surgeries and medical services are provided at the Fresh Start Clinic and other medical providers in the San Diego area.
