The fundraising goal has recently been updated per a conversation between Tony and Rick Lofgren, COTA President & CEO. This letter below from Rick explains the recent change:<\/p>\n
Greetings from COTA!<\/p>\n
I want to congratulate the COTA for Tonys Lungs <\/em>volunteer team for organizing to raise funds for the campaign in honor of Tony!<\/p>\n When I set the campaign fundraising goals with each of our families, I suggest a goal to COTA patients that I believe is needed for any patient’s long-term expenses and transplant-related costs, and the goal generally reflects the next four to five years of out-of-pocket costs. For example, most of our patients will have $5,000 to $7,500 in annual co-payments, deductibles, and medications, as well as additional costs for an extended in-patient stay, clinic visits and a similar amount for travel to the transplant center. <\/p>\n In this case I spoke with Tony this week and suggested that we raise the goal to better reflect what I believe are the true long-term expenses that a patient will incur in the future. Because of this, I have increased the goal for the COTA for Tonys Lungs <\/em>campaign from $10,000 to $65,000 to reflect what I believe will be actual costs going forward based on his in-patient stays and extended wait. <\/p>\n Please know there are many factors in this and that I bear the responsibility of justifying this to anyone who asks, and am happy to do this as I believe that it is the right thing to do given Tony’s health status.<\/p>\n Thank you for all the work and support you have provided to this point, and please keep Tony in your prayers as he continues to wait for his life-saving transplant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fundraising goal has recently been updated per a conversation between Tony and Rick Lofgren, COTA President & CEO. This letter below from Rick explains the recent change: Greetings from COTA! I want to congratulate the COTA for Tonys Lungs volunteer team for organizing to raise funds for the campaign in honor of Tony! When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafortonyslungs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafortonyslungs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafortonyslungs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafortonyslungs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafortonyslungs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafortonyslungs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}