AN ORGANIZATION THAT BRINGS WOMEN AND HEALTH CARE TO THE FOREFRONT
To all the supporters and future supporters,
I want to welcome you to the Lunge for Healthcare Family. We are a community of everyday people looking to do extraordinary things. Lunge for Healthcare has the potential to go global and it is my prayer to see this to its conclusion. Insurance companies and the medical community have been putting women’s health on the back burner for far too long. Lunge for Healthcare plans to give back women the choices they once had. Please join us in serving women and their healthcare needs for a better future.
Let’s band together and fight for our voices to be heard.
National Speaker, Coach, Author of “I Am The One”
Lunge For Healthcare Founder
story
At age forty-four, Viki Zarkin was told to go home and get her affairs in order. She had two young children at home and vowed no one was going to raise her children but herself. From that moment on, Viki was in a fight for her life.
Viki discovered that she needed to learn all she could about her cancer and therefore became her own advocate. By advocating for herself, Viki was able to change her status quo. She challenged the medical community and insurance systems in order to fight for her life. Today Viki is the only one living with her aggressive form of cancer. It is her goal that more women stand shoulder to shoulder with her and this terrible disease. She wants women to have the right to tuck their children into bed as she had that opportunity. Viki still fights today as she is living with her cancer. She gets regular maintenance, chemotherapy treatment that takes its toll. But Viki will never stop fighting for herself and for others.
It’s been eleven years since Viki was diagnosed and she is keeping that promise. But she needed to rein in her passion in order to better serve women long-term. Therefore, Lunge For Healthcare was born.
Not only does Viki head up Lunge For Healthcare, but she is also a National Speaker, Author of “I Am The One”, and Coach. She has a course that she will teach on zoom and on her television channel through Nature Balance TV, “I Am The One, Surviving Cancer Day by Day”.
In Viki’s book “I Am The One”, she tells her story in vivid raw detail. It is as if you (the reader) are sitting in her living room going through all the same pain and aggravation she went through. She brings a humor into her story that only she could do with her upbeat and positive attitude. Viki’s story is amazing and heartfelt, bundled into her book she so lovingly dedicates to her children.
what do we do?
Lunge for Healthcare is an organization that seeks to help women and their long-term healthcare goals.
WHOM DO WE SERVE?
Our goal is to help women understand their bodies and help doctors be better listeners. By simply communicating, we can get to the root of the problem before it gets much larger.
HOW DO WE SERVE THEM?
Lunge for Healthcare suggests that we follow our instincts, listen to our bodies, and be our best advocates. We want to teach our doctors to help women be their own best advocates. Our hope is if these simple practices are followed, many women wouldn’t die of cancers and other diseases that could have been treated earlier and more easily.
Be positive and remain stronger. We are empowered when we band together.
Show insurance companies that we can save millions of dollars with our simple program. We will ask that they use some of those saved monies to restore women’s healthcare back to the coverage that we deserve.
Not all women get to have an equal education, and obviously, all women don’t have the same upbringing, so the importance of having confidence in their bodies was not always taught. So it is up to us to change the future generation.
JOIN OUR FIGHT IN CHANGING WOMEN'S HEALTHCARE FOR THE BETTER.
Jill Bennett-Weiss has been a first-grade teacher for thirty years. She has a degree in Early Childhood Education and Elementary Education. She has a masters equivalency and has continued her education for another 30 credits every five years while she was working. She has had experience selling items, fundraising, planning activities, and special activities.
She has worked closely and cooperatively with parents, teachers, and administrators. Her main reason for working with children is because it’s so rewarding and she gets inspired to see how far they come in one year. “First grade is when children learn to read and write and their excitement is contagious!!”, says Jill. Jill and her husband are the parents of two sons ages 20 and 30 years old.
“I’d like to be on the board to support all the amazing work my sister is doing. I have a lot of respect for the movement she has created.”
Dr. Dolores Fazzino DNP is a Nurse Practitioner, Medical Intuitive, and an Energy Whisperer. With over 40 years in the healthcare industry, she has assisted on over 18,500 surgical procedures and has helped people “Heal in Ways They Never Thought Possible”. She is a pioneer and visionary practitioner who uses energy healing to create true health and lasting wellness.
She worked under the revolutionary Dr. Bernie Siegel, an international expert and surgeon in the field of cancer treatment and complementary, holistic medicine in the 1980’s.
She earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree in 2008 from Case Western Reserve University, one of the top nursing programs in the nation. With her education and expertise, Dr. Fazzino has developed an innovative program to support patients and their loved ones before, during, and after surgery. As founder of Concierge Surgical Coaching®, she is the industry leader in preparing patients to heal faster and more completely from surgery, chronic illness, and other health and wellness concerns.
Additionally, she has authored several books including Amazon International Best Sellers “The Wellness Universe Complete Guide to Self-Care: 25 Tools to Stress Relief” and “The Wellness Universe Complete Guide to Self-Care: 25 Tools for Happiness.” Her other books include “54 Tips to Maneuver through the Healthcare System,” and “Spiritual Wellness for Life.”
“I want to be part of this movement because I know the importance for people to make the correct decisions regarding their medical care that are aligned with their body, mind, and soul. People have become disconnected from their inner guidance system and need to reconnect with it to assist in creating true health and lasting wellness for themselves.”
Judy was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer in 2009, and spent 2010 in treatment which included a double mastectomy, reconstruction and adjuvant therapy. Since her diagnosis, she has been an active advocate for breast cancer prevention and founded Sisters4Prevention in 2010. Judy serves as a consumer advocate for the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Grant Program and is an active blogger, podcaster, and Youtuber on social media. Her passion is breast cancer prevention. In 2015, she was selected by Ford Motor Company as a “Warrior in Pink” for her service to the breast cancer community. She serves as a patient advocate for the Phase I clinical trial for the preventive breast cancer vaccine discovered by Dr. Vincent Tuohy. The vaccine will be administered by Dr. Thomas Budd at the Taussig Cancer Center of Cleveland Clinic. She is a graduate of The National Breast Cancer Coalition’s Project LEAD and is the author of the book, A Teacher’s Journey… What Breast Cancer Taught Me, the proceeds for which benefit breast cancer prevention research.
In 2019, she organized and led a group of women to lobby Congress for grants to fund clinical trials for the prevention of breast and ovarian cancers. She is a retired Catholic School Teacher and serves as a Cruise Host along with her husband for the Signature Travel Consortia.
Amy Karas is a Speech-Language Pathologist providing consultations, evaluations, & treatment to children and adults with learning disabilities and acquired brain injuries in a variety of settings, including teletherapy, home & local community settings. Amy specializes in cognitive-linguistic, social-pragmatic, assistive technology, and functional communication skills to maximize safety and independence and ability to return to school/work. She is an expert in providing voice treatment including LSVT LOUD for individuals with Parkinson’s Disease and other neurogenic disorders as well as treating late language emergence with parent coaching model with 0-3 year old population. She is currently a Case Manager at SHIP (Statewide Head Injury Program) and the Senior Speech-Language Pathologist and Educational Supervisor at Community Rehab Care, Inc. Watertown, MA.
“My WHY for wanting to be a part of your board is I believe in you and your mission. I would love to be a resource for others on the role(s) of executive function and how to maximize independence and would also love to continue to learn and collaborate with others to improve outcomes.”
"I made a promise to God that if I could raise my children, I would help women and I keep my promises. While my kids were growing up, I made it my mission to help at least one person every day. Big or small, it didn’t matter. But now my kids are off to school and so I need to help women on a larger scale."
We have a strong community of visionary women.
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