June 4, 2026
When you call Oakpoint HVAC to fix your air conditioning, a truck pulls up and a technician gets to work. They diagnose the problem, give you a clear price, and fix it right. That is the job. That is what they have been doing in Oak Point and across North Texas for over 30 years.
What most customers do not know — what the owner of that company carries quietly into every workday — is that he is also living with kidney failure. He is on dialysis. Three times a week, he sits in the same chair that the patients Hope & Healing Kidney Foundation of Texas exists to serve.
He is not watching this crisis from a distance. He is inside it.
And that is why this foundation exists.
The Diagnosis Nobody Plans For
Kidney failure does not announce itself with much warning. For many patients, the diagnosis arrives as a shock — a blood test, a conversation with a doctor, and then a world that suddenly looks very different than it did the day before.
For the owner of Oakpoint HVAC LLC, that world included a business to run, a community to serve, a team counting on him, and customers who depended on his company to show up when their HVAC systems failed. A diagnosis of kidney failure did not change any of those responsibilities. It just added one more reality to manage on top of all of them.
Now, three days a week, he goes to dialysis. He sits connected to a machine for three to four hours while his blood is filtered the way his kidneys no longer can. He feels the fatigue that follows a session. He navigates the same financial pressures, the same transportation logistics, the same emotional weight that every dialysis patient carries.
And then he goes back to running his business.
| “He is not watching this from the outside. He knows what it feels like to sit in that chair. He knows what it costs. He knows what it asks of you. And he decided to do something about it.” |
What He Saw From the Inside
When you are a dialysis patient, you see things that are invisible to people outside the kidney disease community. You see who has a ride to treatment and who is trying to figure one out at the last minute. You see the patients who are cold during their sessions and have nothing to cover themselves with. You hear the quiet conversations about medical bills and co-pays and medications that cost more than people can easily afford.
You also see the gaps. The places where the system — as good as the medical care often is — does not reach. The practical and financial challenges that nobody in a white coat is going to solve for you. The logistical reality of living a life that is organized around a treatment schedule that never stops.
He saw all of it. Not as an observer, not as a donor, not as someone who read about it. As a patient who was living it alongside the people in the chairs next to him.
Most people in that position focus on their own survival and their own situation. That is more than enough. That is completely understandable.
He decided to also do something for the people in the chairs around him.
Why 1% of Every Job
The decision to pledge 1% of every processed Oakpoint HVAC job to the Hope & Healing Kidney Foundation of Texas was not made as a marketing strategy. It was not a campaign, not a press release, not a tax calculation.
It was made by someone who understands from personal experience what kidney patients need, who built a business with real roots in the North Texas community, and who wanted to use that business to do something meaningful for people who are going through what he is going through.
The 1% model is powerful because it is structural. It does not depend on a good quarter or a generous mood. Every AC repair completed in the North Texas community contributes to the foundation. Every new HVAC system installed. Every maintenance visit. Every service call answered. The giving is built into how the company operates, which means it compounds over time in a way that a one-time donation never could.
| Every time someone in North Texas calls Oakpoint HVAC to fix their air conditioning, a portion of that job goes to a kidney patient who needs help covering a medical bill, getting a ride to dialysis, or receiving a warm blanket in a cold treatment center. The customer does not have to do anything differently. The giving happens automatically. — This is what it looks like when a business is built around the community it serves. |
What the Foundation Does
Hope & Healing Kidney Foundation of Texas was co-founded by Staci Curry with the same clarity of purpose. The foundation provides three programs built around what kidney patients in North Texas actually need right now.
Financial Assistance
Direct help covering the medical costs that insurance does not fully address — prescription medications, specialist co-pays, medical equipment, lab work, and other kidney disease-related expenses. No income requirements. No waiting lists. Every application reviewed with compassion.
Transportation to Dialysis and Medical Appointments
Reliable rides to and from dialysis three times a week, and to kidney specialist appointments and medical visits. Because missing dialysis is not an inconvenience — it is dangerous. And because the owner of Oakpoint HVAC knows exactly what it feels like to need to get to treatment and to wonder how you are going to get there.
Comfort Blankets
Warm, high-quality blankets delivered to dialysis patients at their treatment centers. Dialysis sessions last three to four hours in centers that are often very cold. A blanket is a small thing that carries a large message: someone thought about you before you got here. You are not just a patient in a chair. You matter.
The owner of Oakpoint HVAC knows what that message means. He has sat in that chair.
Why This Story Matters for Every Kidney Patient in North Texas
There is something important that changes when the person funding a foundation is also living the experience the foundation exists to address.
It means the programs were not designed in a boardroom by people who read reports about kidney patients. They were designed with the direct, lived knowledge of what dialysis patients actually face. The transportation program exists because someone who depends on getting to dialysis understood that transportation is a health issue, not a logistics problem. The financial assistance program exists because someone who has personally managed the costs of kidney disease knows how quickly and quietly they accumulate. The comfort blankets exist because someone who has sat in those cold chairs for hours at a time understood what it means to be thought of.
This is not charity from the outside. This is someone who is inside the experience, using what they have built, to make it a little more bearable for the people going through it alongside them.
| “This foundation was not built to look good. It was built because the person behind it knows exactly what kidney patients need — because he is one.” |
How You Can Be Part of This
Hope & Healing Kidney Foundation of Texas is new. The programs are growing. The need in the North Texas kidney patient community is real, ongoing, and larger than any single organization can address alone.
But it starts with this: a business owner who is on dialysis, who decided that his experience should count for something beyond his own survival. Who decided to build something that reaches the people sitting in the chairs next to him.
If that story moves you, here is how to be part of it.
- If you are a kidney patient or caregiver in North Texas: reach out and let the foundation help you. That is exactly what it is here for.
- If you want to donate: every dollar goes directly to patient programs. $25 provides a warm blanket. $50 funds a round-trip ride to dialysis.
- If you want to volunteer: compassionate, reliable people make everything possible.
- If you own a business: consider what a commitment like Oakpoint HVAC’s 1% pledge could look like for you. The kidney patients in this community need the broader business community to show up.
- If you need HVAC service in North Texas: when you call Oakpoint HVAC, you are also supporting kidney patients in your community. Every job helps.
The dialysis centers in North Texas are full of people who are fighting hard to stay alive. They are going to their appointments three times this week, and three times next week. They are managing costs and transportation and the emotional weight of a disease that never lets up.
They deserve a community that shows up for them. And in North Texas, the community has someone leading the way who knows exactly what showing up means.
