United Way, SunTrust Foundation Develop Financial Wellness Tool

An experienced emergency medicine physician, Dr. Paul Bolger owns the Medical Aesthetics and Wellness Center in Davenport, Illinois, and is an attending emergency physician at two Trinity Medical Center locations. Paul Bolger, MD, and his wife are longtime supporters of the United Way.

United Way recently unveiled a joint initiative with SunTrust Foundation called My Smart Money, a new website that is aimed at helping people develop better personal finance skills. The site is tailored for individuals regardless of their overall income and was developed with a $1.1 million grant to United Way from the SunTrust Foundation. 

Site users are educated with fundamental building blocks for addressing real-life financial situations. Not only does the website give users long-term advice, like college savings and retirement planning, but it also helps them deal with everyday issues like paying bills, managing money, and getting out of debt. 

Alongside its sister program MyFreeTaxes.com My Smart Money is the newest addition to the United Way’s catalog of financial wellness products.

Polaris Project - Protecting Victims of Illicit Massage Businesses

Emergency physician Dr. Paul Bolger tends to patients at both Unity Point Health in Illinois and Medical Aesthetics and Wellness Clinic in Iowa. Outside of his work with patients, Dr. Paul Bolger, who attained his MD at Emory University, supports the Polaris Project and its valuable work. 

The Polaris Project is an international leader in the fight against human trafficking. The organization works to disrupt the trade and sale of human beings in any way it can, while also providing resources for victims of this type of modern slavery. 

Illicit massage businesses have become a pressing target for the Polaris Project in recent years. These businesses, operating under the guise of a legitimate massage parlor, are known perpetrators of sex trafficking and forced labor. Victims are often lured to these facilities with the promise of legitimate employment, and are then controlled through coercion or violence. 

The Polaris Project works with law enforcement to identify facilities that engage in human trafficking in the hopes of shutting down the networks that enslave people in this way.

ACEP Lays Out Legislative Priorities

 

Currently serving as an attending emergency physician at Trinity Medical Center in Rock Island, Illinois, Paul Bolger, MD, possesses more than 15 years of experience in the medical field. In addition to his day-to-day medical practice, Dr. Paul Bolger is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

ACEP recently released its list of priorities for new legislation as the 115th Congress begins session early in 2017. With the change in administration and make-up of the government, ACEP believes it pertinent to express certain principles it hopes any new health care legislation and replacement for the Affordable Care Act would address.

One of the primary items ACEP supports is that new legislation should continue to offer emergency services coverage as part of any insurance package. The group also has urged lawmakers not to remove lifetime insurance limits and continue to allow parents to keep children on their insurance plans until they are 26 years old.

Additionally, ACEP urges Congress to keep Medicare, Medicaid, and the CHIP program funded and solvent.