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August Crossing Foundation is a women-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming pediatric palliative care in Texas and beyond.

10/02/2026

Navigating complex medical care at home often turns your living room into a mini-ICU. When you’re managing multiple medications, feed schedules, and endless supplies, organization aids in reducing caregiver fatigue and avoiding late-night errors.
Swipe through for four quick systems created by complex care parents and pediatric palliative specialists. Here is the full breakdown of how to set them up:

1. Build a 24-Hour Active Caddy: Instead of digging through bulk boxes every few hours, set up one portable tray with only tomorrow’s pre-filled syringes, drawn meds, and flushes. Keep bulk stock tucked away in a closet. Less clutter means fewer miscalculations when you're exhausted at 2 AM.

2. Color-Code by Route: Use color-coded tape or silicone bands to differentiate your supplies (e.g., green for G-tube/enteral, blue for oral, red for central lines). This creates instant visual recognition for you, home nurses, or family members helping out.

3. Group by Routine, Not Drug Name: Organizing alphabetically sounds logical, but in practice, grouping by time of day ("Morning Meds," "Bedtime,") saves precious minutes. Tape a laminated master medication schedule right inside the caddy or cabinet door as a quick cheat sheet.

4. Clear Counter Space with Vertical Storage: Over-the-door clear pocket organizers are a game-changer for G-tube extensions, split gauze, tape, and extra syringes. Anyone stepping in to help can see exactly where everything lives without having to open ten drawers.

At August Crossing, we understand the heavy daily load medical parents carry. We are building a home-away-from-home sanctuary in Texas dedicated to pediatric palliative care, respite, and hospice support that will give families the backup they deserve.

Save this post for your next supply room organization hour, and tag a medical parent who might need a few extra minutes back in their day.

09/11/2026

Meet Erica Olenski, Founding Partner at August Crossing, board-certified patient advocate, healthcare strategist, and most importantly, August’s mom.
With over 20 years of experience leading healthcare innovation, from serving as VP at FINN Partners to guiding national health tech initiatives, Erica knows how to navigate complex healthcare systems and turn them into scalable, meaningful change. Her work has been featured everywhere from The Wall Street Journal to Good Morning America, and she brings that exact level of national credibility and advocacy to our team.
For Erica, this work is deeply personal. August Crossing was born out of her lived experience as a caregiver for her son, August, whose life and legacy are the heart behind everything we are building.
Having Erica at the helm ensures that August Crossing isn't just built on strategic healthcare leadership, but grounded entirely in what real families truly need during their hardest seasons.

09/04/2026

The journey doesn't end when a child passes away. The grief carries on and so do we.

When a family loses a child, the support usually pours in right away. But as the weeks and months pass, the rest of the world slowly goes back to normal, while that family is left trying to figure out how to navigate a completely reshaped reality.

Grief doesn't have a deadline, and no parent or sibling should have to carry it by themselves.

That’s why our commitment at August Crossing doesn't end when a child’s care concludes. Part of our core vision is providing long-term, completely cost-free bereavement support, including 1-on-1 counseling, sibling support groups, and ongoing family resources, for as long as a family needs us.

We are committed to providing ongoing, cost-free counseling for families.

08/27/2026

Every child deserves a childhood, no matter their diagnosis. Here is how we are protecting that. ☀️
When we think about medical care for complex or life-limiting illnesses, the environments are so often sterile, intimidating, and built for adults. But kids process the world entirely differently. They need color, movement, and the freedom to play, create, and laugh, even when they are facing incredibly tough health challenges.
At August Crossing, we believe that holistic healing means prioritizing a child’s spirit just as much as their physical comfort. Our vision integrates world-class pediatric palliative care with child life specialists, art, and music therapy to ensure that joy never takes a back seat to medicine.
Swipe through to see how we’re rewriting the script on pediatric care.
We want to build a space where childhood comes first. Share this post to help us spread the word! 🎨

08/20/2026

When a child is facing a life-limiting illness, a parent’s place is right by their side. Not in a waiting room chair.

A complex diagnosis doesn’t just affect the patient. It impacts the entire family unit. Siblings feel the displacement, parents carry immense emotional and logistical exhaustion, and the comfort of home quickly slips away.

At August Crossing, we believe that caring for a child means wrapping their entire family in support. That’s why our campus includes dedicated, on-site family housing. We want to give parents a peaceful, cost-free place to sleep, eat, and stay together, right next to their child’s bedside.

Swipe through to see why keeping families whole during life’s hardest chapters is at the very heart of what we do.

Our vision includes on-site housing so families can stay whole. Tap the link in our comments to support our building fund today.

08/13/2026

What if a healthcare space didn’t look, smell, or feel like a hospital at all? ☀️
Right now, Texas doesn’t have a single dedicated, standalone pediatric hospice campus. When a child faces a life-limiting illness, families are often forced to navigate sterile, adult-focused clinical settings during their most fragile moments.
We’re working to change that.
August Crossing is our vision for a 15-to-20-bed playful medical sanctuary in Texas. A place where cutting-edge palliative medicine is disguised with warmth, color, and natural light. Where parents have private, on-site housing just steps away from their child. And where sensory gardens, art, and music therapy ensure that kids get to simply be kids—no matter what health battle they’re facing.
A space like this doesn’t exist in Texas yet, but with your help, it will.
📲 How you can help right now:
1. Share this Reel: Send this to a friend, nurse, doctor, or local business owner.
2. Join the movement: Tap the link in the comments to share your contact info and follow along as we work to break ground.

08/09/2026

What if a healthcare center didn't look or feel like a hospital at all?

At August Crossing, we believe that medical care can be world-class while the environment remains warm, vibrant, and filled with play. Our vision for our proposed 15-to-20-bed pediatric hospice campus is to create a true sanctuary. A place where sterile white walls are replaced with splashes of color, clinical sounds are replaced with music and laughter, and medical care is wrapped entirely in the comfort of childhood.

Because even in the hardest seasons, kids still need to be kids. They need spaces to play, gardens to explore, and quiet corners to rest with their families close by.

Help us build a space where joy and medical care coexist. Share this post to spread the word, and head to our bio to see how you can make an impact.

08/06/2026

Texas is home to millions of children. But when it comes to dedicated pediatric hospice campuses, the gap is heartbreaking.

Right now, families in Texas have limited options while facing the unimaginable reality of a child’s life-limiting illness. Many have to navigate adult-focused hospice models or sterile hospital rooms during their most fragile moments. Children deserve a space tailored just for them: one filled with light, color, and absolute comfort.

That is why we are building August Crossing. We want to offer these families a soft place to land: a colorful, state-of-the-art sanctuary that balances top-tier medical support with the warmth of a true home.

We are changing this narrative. Click the link below to read our mission statement and see how you can get involved. https://www.augustcrossingtexas.com/get-involved

08/04/2026

We’re proud to be early adopters of the Monarch Model, a healthcare framework established by our August Crossing cofounder, Erica Olenski.
Repost from Erica: “Everyone in healthcare says ‘lived experience’ matters.

I've heard it from every corner of the industry, from health systems and digital health companies to investors and policymakers. I agree. But I keep coming back to one question:

If lived experience is so valuable, why haven't we built a shared way to operationalize it?

After August died, that question became personal. I wasn't trying to write a paper or develop a framework. I was trying to make sense of my experience as a patient and caregiver through the lens of a career in healthcare innovation. In the process, I realized something I couldn't ignore. My lived experience wasn't just giving me perspective. It was revealing the factors healthcare needs to measure and design for.

My experience revealed the conditions that determined whether I could understand, decide, and act. My nervous system, cognitive load, grief, caregiver capacity, and trust weren't side notes to my healthcare experience. They literally shaped it.

In my reflection, I came to think of these as determinants of agency. Once I could name them, I couldn't stop asking another question:

What if lived experience isn't anecdotal, but strategic intelligence?

Over the past year, I've been working to answer that question. My answer is The Monarch Model™

"The Monarch Model: Lived Experience as Strategic Intelligence" is a framework for operationalizing lived experience as the driver of human agency in healthcare innovation. It offers a shared language for designing, measuring, and building from lived experience.

My hope is that The Monarch Model™ helps healthcare build more effectively for human well-being while giving patients and caregivers language to advocate for the value their lived experience already holds.

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