$4.1 million medical debt erased

Early this year, Saint Philip’s launched a campaign to help eradicate medical debt for Arizonans in the area. The campaign intended to go through Easter, but then COVID-19 arrived, and many plans were altered. Yet there was a positive outcome from these changed plans: a number of you continued to give to the Jubilee Fund Medical Debt Relief. The result is, we were to eliminate an additional million dollars in debt for struggling neighbors.

Here are the totals for your review:

As of July 2020, contributions from Saint Philip’s erased $4.1 million in medical debt for 1,657 people, an average debt elimination of $2,456.81. Our donations helped 1,602 people in Pima County, and 55 people in Pinal County.

For more about this effort, here is a story from Tucson.com.