parish: -> Delmas
region: Quest -> Ouest
temp_perm: Temporary -> Permanent
cat_notes: -> Confirmed commune lpar 1/23/11

region: Haiti, Caribbean -> Quest

cat_notes: Email from Taki Donovan with Hearts With Haiti dated 4/14/10 to LTel: "If you want someone in Leogane to help, Family Health Ministries, Durham NC 919 582 5500 (I think) www.familyhm.org is wonderful. The ob/gyn in Leogane is on staff with them, and has a clinic which has been getting an enormous amount of use. If you knew of medical supplies that could be sent in their direction, that would be great". ->

notes: Attention healthcare providers - Home Page - We expect to send more medical relief teams to Haiti. Please contact us with your personal details if you wish to be emailed when a team is coming together. In the meantime, Ashley Aakeson aaakesson @cnphaiti.org of the Children's Nutrition Program in Leogane, Haiti, has agreed to be the contact person for organizing teams to the Leogane community for people who want to travel to Haiti immediately. We encourage you to contact her. You can also sign up via https://www.servnc.org/ and go with a Duke University or another team that is assembled for a particular purpose. Read more about Duke plans at Duke.edu/haiti ==================== Medical Relief Teams to the Blanchard Clinic Five teams worked at the Blanchard Clinic beginning January 31st and continuing through April 2. Fifty-eight volunteers served over 3500 patients. The teams included 21 doctors and 10 nurses from across the US. Twenty-one other volunteers from varied backgrounds provided support. Each volunteer paid their own way and slept on the floor of Family Health Ministries’ Blanchard Clinic, near the Port-au-Prince airport. Fortunately, the two-story clinic was not damaged in the quake. While many of the volunteers were seasoned providers, some of the teams had members who had never been to Haiti. In addition absorbing scenes of the devastation caused by the earthquake, the team members had to adjust to the heat and humidity and the challenging living conditions. -> SEE CAT FACILITY RECORD FOR Family Health Ministries in NC at: http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/5389 They are asking for Haiti donations and there is a donation collection site in Durham, NC -------------------------------------------- Attention healthcare providers - Home Page - We expect to send more medical relief teams to Haiti. Please contact us with your personal details if you wish to be emailed when a team is coming together. In the meantime, Ashley Aakeson aaakesson @cnphaiti.org of the Children's Nutrition Program in Leogane, Haiti, has agreed to be the contact person for organizing teams to the Leogane community for people who want to travel to Haiti immediately. We encourage you to contact her. You can also sign up via https://www.servnc.org/ and go with a Duke University or another team that is assembled for a particular purpose. Read more about Duke plans at Duke.edu/haiti ==================== Medical Relief Teams to the Blanchard Clinic Five teams worked at the Blanchard Clinic beginning January 31st and continuing through April 2. Fifty-eight volunteers served over 3500 patients. The teams included 21 doctors and 10 nurses from across the US. Twenty-one other volunteers from varied backgrounds provided support. Each volunteer paid their own way and slept on the floor of Family Health Ministries’ Blanchard Clinic, near the Port-au-Prince airport. Fortunately, the two-story clinic was not damaged in the quake. While many of the volunteers were seasoned providers, some of the teams had members who had never been to Haiti. In addition absorbing scenes of the devastation caused by the earthquake, the team members had to adjust to the heat and humidity and the challenging living conditions.
mission: Public Health - Family Health Ministries in Blanchard, Haiti Since 2002, Family Health Ministries has been working in Blanchard, Haiti. Also called Terre Noire by locals, the area is an urban community in Port-au-Prince located approximately 2 miles from the slum area of Cite Soleil. With the help of Duke Chapel, FHM built and operates the Blanchard Family Health Center that provides primary care and public health services. -> Public Health - Family Health Ministries in Blanchard, Haiti Since 2002, Family Health Ministries has been working in Blanchard, Haiti. Also called Terre Noire by locals, the area is an urban community in Port-au-Prince located approximately 2 miles from the slum area of Cite Soleil. With the help of Duke Chapel, FHM built and operates the Blanchard Family Health Center that provides primary care and public health services.
cat_notes: Haiti index record - http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/5246 -> Email from Taki Donovan with Hearts With Haiti dated 4/14/10 to LTel: "If you want someone in Leogane to help, Family Health Ministries, Durham NC 919 582 5500 (I think) www.familyhm.org is wonderful. The ob/gyn in Leogane is on staff with them, and has a clinic which has been getting an enormous amount of use. If you knew of medical supplies that could be sent in their direction, that would be great".

notes: Attention healthcare providers - Home Page - We expect to send more medical relief teams to Haiti. Please contact us with your personal details if you wish to be emailed when a team is coming together. In the meantime, Ashley Aakeson aaakesson @cnphaiti.org of the Children's Nutrition Program in Leogane, Haiti, has agreed to be the contact person for organizing teams to the Leogane community for people who want to travel to Haiti immediately. We encourage you to contact her. You can also sign up via https://www.servnc.org/ and go with a Duke University or another team that is assembled for a particular purpose. Read more about Duke plans at Duke.edu/haiti ==================== FHM Earthquake Relief updated 14 April 2010 FHM logo Make a Donation Collect Medical and Other Supplies for Haiti Relief May 1 Fundraiser - Partner with Haiti for a Better Tomorrow Medical Supplies to Haiti Medical Relief Teams to the Blanchard Clinic Construction Teams Medical Relief Teams to the Leogane Clinic Financial Summary of Earthquake Relief Donations and Expenses Medical Supplies to Haiti FHM began collecting donated medical supplies within two days of the earthquake on January 12, 2010. The first supplies were donated by Remedy@Duke and transported by small plane to the bypass road outside of Leogane, adjacent to FHM's future hospital site. Since the earthquake, hundreds of individuals and groups have brought (or mailed) contributions to FHM. Each medical team has taken hundreds of pounds of supplies to all three FHM locations in Haiti. (See this site in the future for stories of those who have helped.) Medical Relief Teams to the Blanchard Clinic Five teams worked at the Blanchard Clinic beginning January 31st and continuing through April 2. Fifty-eight volunteers served over 3500 patients. The teams included 21 doctors and 10 nurses from across the US. Twenty-one other volunteers from varied backgrounds provided support. Each volunteer paid their own way and slept on the floor of Family Health Ministries’ Blanchard Clinic, near the Port-au-Prince airport. Fortunately, the two-story clinic was not damaged in the quake. While many of the volunteers were seasoned providers, some of the teams had members who had never been to Haiti. In addition absorbing scenes of the devastation caused by the earthquake, the team members had to adjust to the heat and humidity and the challenging living conditions. -> Attention healthcare providers - Home Page - We expect to send more medical relief teams to Haiti. Please contact us with your personal details if you wish to be emailed when a team is coming together. In the meantime, Ashley Aakeson aaakesson @cnphaiti.org of the Children's Nutrition Program in Leogane, Haiti, has agreed to be the contact person for organizing teams to the Leogane community for people who want to travel to Haiti immediately. We encourage you to contact her. You can also sign up via https://www.servnc.org/ and go with a Duke University or another team that is assembled for a particular purpose. Read more about Duke plans at Duke.edu/haiti ==================== Medical Relief Teams to the Blanchard Clinic Five teams worked at the Blanchard Clinic beginning January 31st and continuing through April 2. Fifty-eight volunteers served over 3500 patients. The teams included 21 doctors and 10 nurses from across the US. Twenty-one other volunteers from varied backgrounds provided support. Each volunteer paid their own way and slept on the floor of Family Health Ministries’ Blanchard Clinic, near the Port-au-Prince airport. Fortunately, the two-story clinic was not damaged in the quake. While many of the volunteers were seasoned providers, some of the teams had members who had never been to Haiti. In addition absorbing scenes of the devastation caused by the earthquake, the team members had to adjust to the heat and humidity and the challenging living conditions.
mission: Public Health - Family Health Ministries in Blanchard, Haiti Since 2002, Family Health Ministries has been working in Blanchard, Haiti. Also called Terre Noire by locals, the area is an urban community in Port-au-Prince located approximately 2 miles from the slum area of Cite Soleil. With the help of Duke Chapel, FHM built and operates the Blanchard Family Health Center that provides primary care and public health services. -> Public Health - Family Health Ministries in Blanchard, Haiti Since 2002, Family Health Ministries has been working in Blanchard, Haiti. Also called Terre Noire by locals, the area is an urban community in Port-au-Prince located approximately 2 miles from the slum area of Cite Soleil. With the help of Duke Chapel, FHM built and operates the Blanchard Family Health Center that provides primary care and public health services.

notes: Attention healthcare providers - Home Page - We expect to send more medical relief teams to Haiti. Please contact us with your personal details if you wish to be emailed when a team is coming together. In the meantime, Ashley Aakeson aaakesson @cnphaiti.org of the Children's Nutrition Program in Leogane, Haiti, has agreed to be the contact person for organizing teams to the Leogane community for people who want to travel to Haiti immediately. We encourage you to contact her. You can also sign up via https://www.servnc.org/ and go with a Duke University or another team that is assembled for a particular purpose. Read more about Duke plans at Duke.edu/haiti ==================== Blog Updates: http://www.familyhm.org/weekofFebruary12010.html#christues NEW BLOG UPDATE FROM THE MEDICAL TEAM AT FHM'S BLANCHARD CLINIC IN PAP, HAITI (4 February 2010) Written Wednesday evening: We just returned from a drive around Cite Soleil and downtown. The devastation there is much, much worse than what we’ve been seeing around the clinic. We’ve basically been in a suburb – the houses are spaced a bit further apart and two story buildings were rare. Therefore, while the devastation is very real – it’s not as packed together and overwhelming. People have space to sleep on the ground on in simple shelters next to their (former) homes. We did clinic this morning, seeing a mere ~150 people. This brings our total for the week to the high 800’s. Honestly, we could be plus or minus fifty. We try to track patients with a rudimentary chart (piece of paper with name, vitals, chief complaint, evaluation by the doctor, treatment administered, drugs prescribed, and so on) but urgent cases pre-empt that process. I’ve also lost count of how many people have been carried past me in a fireman’s (two man) carry as I worked filling small containers with our limited drug supply. Editor's note: The drug supply has been replenished with a purchase from a local Haitian pharmacy. Google maps and Google Earth have remarkable overhead imagery of the city, updated after the quake. I would encourage everyone to take a look at the national palace, the cathedral, and Cite Soleil for reference on what I’m writing here. Cite Soleil is built on top of the former garbage dump of the city. Not the most stable of foundations – but it’s also explicitly intended for some of the poorest people in the Hemisphere. The poverty there was intense prior to the quake. When it rains, the sewage from the city flows through Cite Soleil on its way to the sea. We stopped at a church supported by the group I’m with (Family Health Ministries). It would normally seat about 2,000 people, but it is unusable due to many cracks through the foundation and walls. The architect traveling with our team picked up a fist sized piece of concrete from the foundation and crushed it to powder between his hands. “You couldn’t build a doghouse on this foundation anymore,” were his exact words. Apparently once concrete has set, subjecting it to severe compression and strain will weaken it structurally. We then drove to the national cathedral and the palace. Frankly, I’ve never felt so safe in Port Au Prince before. You can find footage of those buildings on CNN and so on. It’s a lot more intense up close. A city builds a cathedral as an expression of their hopes and dreams – the architectural pinnacle of what they can accomplish. Seeing that reduced to rubble took a lot out of me. A lot of buildings looked fairly normal, until you realized that you were looking at a second floor resting at street level. On the other hand, we passed US, Brazilian, and French military and construction convoys. We chatted with several members of other groups who were getting on with the business of building infrastructure. People are living in clusters of strangely homogenous tents. Here, a hundred from Coleman. There, 200 from the Rotary. -> Attention healthcare providers - Home Page - We expect to send more medical relief teams to Haiti. Please contact us with your personal details if you wish to be emailed when a team is coming together. In the meantime, Ashley Aakeson aaakesson @cnphaiti.org of the Children's Nutrition Program in Leogane, Haiti, has agreed to be the contact person for organizing teams to the Leogane community for people who want to travel to Haiti immediately. We encourage you to contact her. You can also sign up via https://www.servnc.org/ and go with a Duke University or another team that is assembled for a particular purpose. Read more about Duke plans at Duke.edu/haiti ==================== FHM Earthquake Relief updated 14 April 2010 FHM logo Make a Donation Collect Medical and Other Supplies for Haiti Relief May 1 Fundraiser - Partner with Haiti for a Better Tomorrow Medical Supplies to Haiti Medical Relief Teams to the Blanchard Clinic Construction Teams Medical Relief Teams to the Leogane Clinic Financial Summary of Earthquake Relief Donations and Expenses Medical Supplies to Haiti FHM began collecting donated medical supplies within two days of the earthquake on January 12, 2010. The first supplies were donated by Remedy@Duke and transported by small plane to the bypass road outside of Leogane, adjacent to FHM's future hospital site. Since the earthquake, hundreds of individuals and groups have brought (or mailed) contributions to FHM. Each medical team has taken hundreds of pounds of supplies to all three FHM locations in Haiti. (See this site in the future for stories of those who have helped.) Medical Relief Teams to the Blanchard Clinic Five teams worked at the Blanchard Clinic beginning January 31st and continuing through April 2. Fifty-eight volunteers served over 3500 patients. The teams included 21 doctors and 10 nurses from across the US. Twenty-one other volunteers from varied backgrounds provided support. Each volunteer paid their own way and slept on the floor of Family Health Ministries’ Blanchard Clinic, near the Port-au-Prince airport. Fortunately, the two-story clinic was not damaged in the quake. While many of the volunteers were seasoned providers, some of the teams had members who had never been to Haiti. In addition absorbing scenes of the devastation caused by the earthquake, the team members had to adjust to the heat and humidity and the challenging living conditions.
mission: Public Health - Family Health Ministries in Blanchard, Haiti Since 2002, Family Health Ministries has been working in Blanchard, Haiti. Also called Terre Noire by locals, the area is an urban community in Port-au-Prince located approximately 2 miles from the slum area of Cite Soleil. With the help of Duke Chapel, FHM built and operates the Blanchard Family Health Center that provides primary care and public health services. -> Public Health - Family Health Ministries in Blanchard, Haiti Since 2002, Family Health Ministries has been working in Blanchard, Haiti. Also called Terre Noire by locals, the area is an urban community in Port-au-Prince located approximately 2 miles from the slum area of Cite Soleil. With the help of Duke Chapel, FHM built and operates the Blanchard Family Health Center that provides primary care and public health services.

cat_notes: -> Haiti index record - http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/5246

notes: Attention healthcare providers - Home Page - We expect to send more medical relief teams to Haiti. Please contact us with your personal details if you wish to be emailed when a team is coming together. In the meantime, Ashley Aakeson aaakesson @cnphaiti.org of the Children's Nutrition Program in Leogane, Haiti, has agreed to be the contact person for organizing teams to the Leogane community for people who want to travel to Haiti immediately. We encourage you to contact her. You can also sign up via https://www.servnc.org/ and go with a Duke University or another team that is assembled for a particular purpose. Read more about Duke plans at Duke.edu/haiti ==================== Blog Updates: http://www.familyhm.org/weekofFebruary12010.html#christues -> Attention healthcare providers - Home Page - We expect to send more medical relief teams to Haiti. Please contact us with your personal details if you wish to be emailed when a team is coming together. In the meantime, Ashley Aakeson aaakesson @cnphaiti.org of the Children's Nutrition Program in Leogane, Haiti, has agreed to be the contact person for organizing teams to the Leogane community for people who want to travel to Haiti immediately. We encourage you to contact her. You can also sign up via https://www.servnc.org/ and go with a Duke University or another team that is assembled for a particular purpose. Read more about Duke plans at Duke.edu/haiti ==================== Blog Updates: http://www.familyhm.org/weekofFebruary12010.html#christues NEW BLOG UPDATE FROM THE MEDICAL TEAM AT FHM'S BLANCHARD CLINIC IN PAP, HAITI (4 February 2010) Written Wednesday evening: We just returned from a drive around Cite Soleil and downtown. The devastation there is much, much worse than what we’ve been seeing around the clinic. We’ve basically been in a suburb – the houses are spaced a bit further apart and two story buildings were rare. Therefore, while the devastation is very real – it’s not as packed together and overwhelming. People have space to sleep on the ground on in simple shelters next to their (former) homes. We did clinic this morning, seeing a mere ~150 people. This brings our total for the week to the high 800’s. Honestly, we could be plus or minus fifty. We try to track patients with a rudimentary chart (piece of paper with name, vitals, chief complaint, evaluation by the doctor, treatment administered, drugs prescribed, and so on) but urgent cases pre-empt that process. I’ve also lost count of how many people have been carried past me in a fireman’s (two man) carry as I worked filling small containers with our limited drug supply. Editor's note: The drug supply has been replenished with a purchase from a local Haitian pharmacy. Google maps and Google Earth have remarkable overhead imagery of the city, updated after the quake. I would encourage everyone to take a look at the national palace, the cathedral, and Cite Soleil for reference on what I’m writing here. Cite Soleil is built on top of the former garbage dump of the city. Not the most stable of foundations – but it’s also explicitly intended for some of the poorest people in the Hemisphere. The poverty there was intense prior to the quake. When it rains, the sewage from the city flows through Cite Soleil on its way to the sea. We stopped at a church supported by the group I’m with (Family Health Ministries). It would normally seat about 2,000 people, but it is unusable due to many cracks through the foundation and walls. The architect traveling with our team picked up a fist sized piece of concrete from the foundation and crushed it to powder between his hands. “You couldn’t build a doghouse on this foundation anymore,” were his exact words. Apparently once concrete has set, subjecting it to severe compression and strain will weaken it structurally. We then drove to the national cathedral and the palace. Frankly, I’ve never felt so safe in Port Au Prince before. You can find footage of those buildings on CNN and so on. It’s a lot more intense up close. A city builds a cathedral as an expression of their hopes and dreams – the architectural pinnacle of what they can accomplish. Seeing that reduced to rubble took a lot out of me. A lot of buildings looked fairly normal, until you realized that you were looking at a second floor resting at street level. On the other hand, we passed US, Brazilian, and French military and construction convoys. We chatted with several members of other groups who were getting on with the business of building infrastructure. People are living in clusters of strangely homogenous tents. Here, a hundred from Coleman. There, 200 from the Rotary.

name: Blanchard Clinic (Supported by FHM's emergency medical team) -> Blanchard Clinic (Supported by Family Health Ministries) - 2010 Haiti Earthquake

notes: ==================== Blog Updates: http://www.familyhm.org/weekofFebruary12010.html#christues -> Attention healthcare providers - Home Page - We expect to send more medical relief teams to Haiti. Please contact us with your personal details if you wish to be emailed when a team is coming together. In the meantime, Ashley Aakeson aaakesson @cnphaiti.org of the Children's Nutrition Program in Leogane, Haiti, has agreed to be the contact person for organizing teams to the Leogane community for people who want to travel to Haiti immediately. We encourage you to contact her. You can also sign up via https://www.servnc.org/ and go with a Duke University or another team that is assembled for a particular purpose. Read more about Duke plans at Duke.edu/haiti ==================== Blog Updates: http://www.familyhm.org/weekofFebruary12010.html#christues
mission: Public Health - Family Health Ministries in Blanchard, Haiti Since 2002, Family Health Ministries has been working in Blanchard, Haiti. Also called Terre Noire by locals, the area is an urban community in Port-au-Prince located approximately 2 miles from the slum area of Cite Soleil. With the help of Duke Chapel, FHM built and operates the Blanchard Family Health Center that provides primary care and public health services. -> Public Health - Family Health Ministries in Blanchard, Haiti Since 2002, Family Health Ministries has been working in Blanchard, Haiti. Also called Terre Noire by locals, the area is an urban community in Port-au-Prince located approximately 2 miles from the slum area of Cite Soleil. With the help of Duke Chapel, FHM built and operates the Blanchard Family Health Center that provides primary care and public health services.