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Visitation Clinic (Supported by Hope & Healing For Haiti/Visitation Hospital Foundation)

Organization: Medical Facility
Facility Type: Medical Facility
Status: Open

Address:
Near the Soccer Field/4 hours West of PaP
Petite Riviere de Nippes, HT 00000

Region:Nippes
County/Parish:



Main/General Business Number: U.S.: (615) 673-3501
Website: http://www.visitationhospital.org/

Other Contacts:(hidden)

Mission: Theresa Patterson, together with Harry Hosey, began matching parishes in the U.S. 31 years ago, beginning with the Catholic Diocese of Nashville, Tennessee. Today there are more than 350 "sister-parish" relationships--making it the largest citizen-to-citizen network linking Haiti with the U.S. "The twinned" American and Canadian parishes have sent over $24 million in monetary relief funds over the years.

The relationship with churches and projects in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been a real story of love and commitment, brining hope and aid to thousands of Haitians and touching the hearts of many Americans. Thousands of individuals have visited Haiti as a direct result of this outreach, and Theresa has brought over 90 children and adults to the U.S. for life-saving medical care since 1987.

Medical teams, consisting of a number of physicians and nurses, have treated many thousands of Haitians during hundreds of mission trips. With a long history of creating parish partnerships and providing medical aid for the people of Haiti, the need to broaden the scope of the mission by constructing a hospital in one of the pooest regions was compelling. Thus, our Foundation is creating Visitation Hospital, a comprehensive healthcare facility that will be located in a small rural village approximately four hours from Port-au-Prince. This dynamic medical facility will make emergency care and other desperately needed medical services more accessible for the people of the region. The hospital will consist of 100 beds and will be located in Petite Riviere de Nippes, in southwest Haiti. The hospital will serve over 266,000 people in the 7 communities of Miragoane, Petite Riviere de Nippes, L'Asile, Anse-a-Veau, Petit Trou de Nippes, Founds des Negres, and Paillant. Phase 1 of the project, the construction of the Visitation Outpatient Clinic, is now complete. The Clinic officially opened with a dedication by the local Bishop on January 19, 2008. Thirty-three people from the U.S. attended the event, in addition to the hundreds of local residents.

The Visitation Clinic is currently treating approximately 90 patients per day. The staff includes 28 Haitian employees, making it the largest employer in the area. Of these, three are physicians, four are RNs, two are lab techs, and there is a pharmacist and pharmacy assistant, plus community health workers and support staff. The Clinic provides a laboratory, pharmacy, and digital radiography services, electronic medical records, plus a full array of community health and outreach programs. Examples of such programs include:

* De-worming of women and children
* Early treatment of malnutrition, nutritional education of adults, and a food bank
* Tuberculosis prevention and treatment
* Vitamin A capsule distribution, to help prevent loss of vision in children
* STD/AIDS prevention, screening, care, and education * Midwifery program
* Immunization of children and adults
* Oral rehydration therapy at the household level
* Training of mothers in early, exclusive, and extended breast-feeding
* Medical-related leadership training
The hospital will be constructed in a variety of stages. The next step is the construction of an Ambulatory Surgery Center to include two operating suites, a pre- and post-op area, dressing area, restrooms, and chapel. We will need funding to continue to run the Clinic, purchase medications, nutritional supplements and medical supplies.

Also included on the campus currently are a 2,000 square foot storage facility with a loading dock, guards' quarters, 2,580 sq. ft. staff quarters, a cistern, generator, fencing, and a newly constructed road and landscaping. The Clinic also uses solar energy and energy-efficient appliances and ceiling fans. The Clinic sits up on a hill with the Caribbean on one side and mountains on the other, creating a cool breeze throughout the facility, and a place of comfort and respite for visitors as well as patients.

Once complete, this "Hospital of American Standards" will be a clean and comfortable facility that will promote a sense of healing and well-being, where physicians can come from anywhere in the U. S. to practice their specialty. To ensure that the total hospital project is comprehensive and effective, the following components will be included:

* Three surgical suites
* Administrative Offices
* Pharmacy
* Relatives's Sleeping Quarters
* Out-patient Clinic
* ICU Unit
* Digital Radiography
* Nursery
* Pediatrics
* Laboratory
* Emergency Care
* Kitchen Facility
* Maintenance Building
* Obstetrics and Gynecology
* Isolation Unit
* Chapel





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

Probable cases of cholera at Visitation Hospital (Petite Riviere de Nippes)
Friday, December 3, 2010 6:48 AM
From: "Amy King"
To: haiti-epidemic-advisory-system@googlegroups.com, serentriphard @yahoo.fr, frajotte @aol.com, ayitialive @gmail.com

Hi All -

I am adding Visitation Hospital (Petite Riviere de Nippes) to the HEAS Watchboard.

http://www.visitationhospital.org shows this amazing facility & what it can be as a cholera resource for the south.

See needs below:

Hi Amy,

I wish to thank you for your email and your concern to help the Clinic somehow with the cholera outbreak in the country.

I can say that until today we received 5 patients with cholera. Unfortunately, we don't keep those patients. We give them the first care (IV fluids for about 4 to 6 hours) and send them to the nearest Hospital in Miragoane. We cannot keep those patients yet since the Clinic does not have the structure for that with a long and complicated protocol required and applied at the cholera sites.

In fact, what the Clinic needs now to be a at least a medium cholera site are:

1- An outside room to keep and treat the patients (can be built with plywood and post-wood) or a big tent.
2- A lot of IV fluids (ringer)
3- Human resources ( at least 3 to 5 Nurse's aides according to the number of patients)
4- A lot of bleach water and other supplies that can be useful
5- Patients bed (specially made for patient who has cholera, they have a hole in the middle)

We have enough IV fluids(ringer) for about one month or so in case we would receive 3 or 4 cases of patients with cholera.

Public Health promised to provide us a tent. I don't know when they will give it to us,but I'm trying to convince them to do that as soon as possible.

Hope that those information find you well Amy and to hear you and work with you very soon.

Killy

serentriphard@ yahoo.fr
011-509-3768-2291
www.visitationhospital.org

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From: VisitationHF @aol.com
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:25:10 -0500
Subject: Cholera outbreak
To: visitationHF@ aol.com

Dear Friend of Visitation Hospital Foundation,

As you have no doubt read in the news, Haiti is now dealing with an outbreak of cholera. Yesterday, our clinic reported its first cases of suspected cholera. Of the three patients we treated, two were travelers from the Artobonite department which is the center of the outbreak. Based on the experience in the rest of Haiti, we expect to see many more cases over the next several weeks.

While there is never a good time for a contagion like this, the upcoming months of December and January are particularly bad because are clinic operates with a reduced staff. This is because we will loose our young doctors and nurses who have worked at the clinic this year fulfilling their public service commitment. In normal years this would not be a great problem because we do see a decrease in patients during the holiday season as people travel or defer elective care. This year, we fear, will be exceptional.

So we are inviting our friends who are medical professionals to volunteer for a week or two of service at our clinic over the next several weeks. We will welcome all qualified volunteers and we will provide food, lodging and ground transportation to our clinic during this period. If you have been considering a medical mission trip to Haiti, please consider doing so now. Your help would be very much needed.

Art Judy
Executive Director
Visitation Hospital Foundation

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Created At: Wed Feb 17 05:29:07 +0000 2010
Updated At: Fri Dec 03 18:13:58 +0000 2010
Updated By: LTel


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