Kim Koger doesn’t remember much from her early years in a foster home in South Korea — and the circumstances that brought her there are still hazy. Her birth parents had reportedly abandoned her at a police telephone booth. There was no birth certificate. Those first childhood memories are hard to access and faint ... Read More
FHE News
As we grow and improve our programming and capabilities, we want to let you know about it! For FHE Health news regarding new team members, expanded programming, or new technologies that we are adding to assist our clients, we’ll let you know about it in this section.
2025 Graduate Hope for Healing Winner: The Power of “Feeling Seen and Heard”
2025 Hope for Healing Undergraduate Winner: Recovery and Resilience After a Brain Tumor
She first knew something was wrong in February 2021. “One day, out of nowhere, my right hand suddenly felt paralyzed,” recalled 18-year-old Catalina Artuz, in an interview with FHE Health. She couldn’t “scroll through her phone, open a door, or even hold a fork properly at lunch.” “It was as if there was a ... Read More
Meet the 2025 Winners of the “Hope for Healing Scholarship”!
After eight impressive finalists were announced last week, our selection committee had the difficult task of choosing one undergraduate and one graduate winner of the “2025 Hope for Healing Scholarship.” They are Catalina Artuz (our undergraduate winner) and Kim Koger (our graduate winner). In the coming weeks, you’ll ... Read More
Meet Our 8 Finalists for the Hope for Healing Scholarship!
After a record number of applications — roughly 800 — eight finalists have been selected for our 2025 Hope for Healing Scholarship! Before we introduce you to each of them, here’s some fun trivia about this year’s applicant pool: 281 graduate-level students and 514 undergraduate students applied. Together, they ... Read More
Meet Our 10 Finalists for the 2024 First Responder Paws Award!
Roughly 8,500 people voted for their favorite dog in this year’s contest for the First Responder Paws Therapy Dog Award. Now that the votes have been tallied, we wanted to give you an opportunity to meet the 10 dogs that received the most votes and are now finalists for the 2024 award. ... Read More
Meet Winner of 2024 Community Impact Award!
It’s Thursday morning, and Roz Pichardo has been managing lines of people who are either queuing up for clothes or distributing them. “I had a huge donation of clothes—so many—and because we have a very small space, I had to do a last-minute clothing drive,” Pichardo said, in a phone interview with FHE ... Read More
FHE Health Hurricane Policy
DEERFIELD BEACH WEATHER FHE Health follows a rigorous preparedness protocol for hurricanes and other weather hazards. We closely monitor on-the-ground developments in relation to our facility in Deerfield Beach, Florida, so that we can adjust our emergency plans as needed to ensure the safety of our patients. They ... Read More
Our 2023 First Responder Paws Therapy Dog: An Update
Last December, a sweet, scruffy mutt by the name of “Sergeant Bo” became the first recipient of FHE Health’s $2000 First Responder Paws Therapy Dog Award. The annual contest, which kicks off again this September, raises awareness about therapy dogs everywhere, while bringing attention to those that assist first ... Read More
