Health Care In Haiti - thelateralthinker.com

Churches in Action
Churches across the U.S. provide nearly
Haiti Nursing Foundation
Board of Directors
Monique Jean-Bart Germain,
MS, RN, President
a third of the operating support for FSIL nursing
school. We celebrate this commitment and legacy.
Joanne M. Pohl, PhD, RN,
FAAN, FAANP, Vice President
Presbyterians in Partnership
James L. Wierman, DO, FACP
Secretary
Presbyterian
churches, groups,
foundations, and
individuals have
substantially
supported FSIL
since it began.
TOP: FSIL Dean Hilda Alcindor with Lisa Johnson, PharmD,
at First Presbyterian Church–Ann Arbor; BELOW: Haiti’s
Episcopal Bishop Duracin, with FSIL Governing Board Chair Dr.
Donna Martsolf at an FSIL graduation.
The Episcopal
Connection
The Episcopal Diocese of Haiti and the Presbyterian
Church (USA) have a covenant to work together on
selected projects in Haiti. FSIL is a testament to this
collaboration.
FSIL is one of the schools in the Episcopal University of
Haiti. Graduates receive a BSN degree.
Robert S. Northrup, MD
John L. Sampselle, MBA
Assistant Treasurer
H. Kaz Soong, MD
Jessie Colin, PhD, RN, FAAN
www.haitinursing.org
734.353.9565
[email protected]
Donna Martsolf, PhD, RN,
FAAN
Rosemarie Rowney, MPH
Hilda Alcindor, RN, BA
Haiti Nursing Foundation
James Hite, AIA
Ruth Barnard, PhD, Treasurer
Maria Constant, JD
We are thankful
for this broad network of Presbyterian Church (USA)
support. FSIL nursing school wouldn’t exist without it.
Guerda Harris, MBA, BS
Jerry Veldman, MD, FAAP
Nurses and nursing organizations around the U.S.
support FSIL in a variety of ways. Their involvement is
especially meaningful to FSIL students and faculty.
Franca Weitenberner, RN,
BSN, MBA
ABOVE: Sharon Etheridge, PhD, RN, regularly visits
FSIL as volunteer faculty.
Margie J. Van Meter, MS, RN
Mission
The purpose of Haiti Nursing Foundation is
to support the advancement of nursing in the
Republic of Haiti. The focus of this support is
on nursing education, especially on Faculté des
Sciences Infirmières de l’Université Episcopale
d’Haïti (FSIL).
“Putting treasure in the people in Haiti, that’s where true transformation is taking
place...The FSIL Nursing School (which became a crucial beacon in Léogâne
after the earthquake) is a fine example...offering skills that neither moth nor rust
can destroy. This is transformation, not aid, and it involves not having anyone
beholden to anyone for anything, except change.”
– Rev. Susan Baller-Shepard
Editor, SpiritualBookClub.com Huffington Post
Transforming
Health Care
In Haiti
One nurse at a time
FSIL Nursing School
Why support nursing education in Haiti?
The Faculty of Nursing Science of the Episcopal
University of Haiti (FSIL) is the first and only
four-year baccalaureate school of nursing in
Haiti.
You can help bright young people deliver
health care and build the infrastructure
that’s essential to their country.
In Haiti:
A young Haitian faces daunting challenges getting a quality nursing education.
• 17 percent of children die
before age 5
That’s why Haiti Nursing Foundation (HNF) focuses support on the FSIL
nursing school in Léogâne. FSIL is educating nurses who will remain in Haiti
and serve as leaders in the health care profession.
HNF was founded in 2005 to support the advancement of nursing in Haiti. If you
read the bleak statistics at right, you’ll see why our mission is vital.
Help us change Haiti’s grim statistics. FSIL has graduated 81 Haitian nurses
with a BSN degree. Our focus on FSIL ensures that your gift will do the most
good.
“Nous Somme la Différence”
“We Are the Difference”
• Maternal mortality rate
60 times that in the U.S.
• Half of all children
are undersized from
malnutrition
• Only one nurse per
10,000 people
Your support means this:
• Six classes graduated: 68 women and 13 men
with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Haitians educated in Haiti to serve Haiti
• Graduates educated to international standards
as clinicians, leaders, and agents of change
• Free health fairs in Haitian
communities
• Nurses raising the
standard of health care
in Haiti through
prevention and
top quality treatment
Haitians die from treatable or
altogether preventable
conditions like measles,
hypertension, tuberculosis,
malaria, diarrhea,
malnutrition, typhoid,
diabetes, cholera and tetanus.
You can make a direct and profound investment in the future
of Haiti – in the health and well being of countless of its people
– by supporting FSIL nursing students.
“Empowering Haitians to
solve Haiti’s problems is
why I choose to support FSIL
through the Haiti Nursing
Foundation.”
— Janet Ross, MSN,RN
Meet FSIL students on our
website: HaitiNursing.org
Facebook.com/
haitinursing
Funding to build and
expand FSIL has been
obtained by the Medical
Benevolence Foundation
(MBF), associated with the
Presbyterian Church (USA),
from USAID/ASHA (U.S.
Agency for International
Development/American
Schools and Hospitals
Abroad), with additional
funding from donors to
MBF.
Master’s degree programs bring
sustainability to Haiti health care
Nineteen FSIL graduates are now enrolled in a Master’s
program to become Family Nurse Practitioners. They
also receive coursework to prepare them to serve as
future faculty, and will be able to deliver much of the
same care as physicians.
“We are creating sustainability so that Haitian nurses who
complete the program will then educate their peers,” said
Carol Roye, ED, RN, CPNP, FAAN. Dr. Roye is a professor at
Hunter College and co-founder of Promoting Health in
Haiti (PHH).
PHH has partnered with the Episcopal University of Haiti
and FSIL nursing school to deliver the Master’s program.
Instruction will take place in-person, online and in
Haitian clinical settings.
Funding is being sought to begin the first Master’s
program in Community Health Nursing in Haiti, to be
provided at FSIL by the Rutgers University College of
Nursing.
We need your help to support these vital programs
that will elevate the standards of nursing practice
and education in Haiti.

Download Report