Hôpital Alma Mater - "Cholera Treatment Center - CTC" (Supported by: MSF)

Cholera beds: 100 extendable to 200 per PAHO list dated 12/6/10

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Health Cluster - Cholera Outbreak Response - Organizations and Activities\
(LIST MAINTAINED BY PAHO. LAST UPDATED: NOVEMBER 13, 2010 2:50PM)
CTC Defintion:

Centre for the treatment of Cholera (CTC): a center set up for the treatment of cholera with a staff recruited for this 40 to 300 beds which receives the sick suspects of cholera. In the case ideal, there are tents for rehydration iv and tents or rooms for the phase of re-convalescensce. Capable of processing of complications such as pulmonary edema. Open 24 on 24/ 7 on 7. Receives the sick who come spontaneously and cases referred to it.

MANAGING ORG: MSF France

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Affiliated with Global Health Ministry

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News!
For the first time in our 41-year history, Alma Mater has added a pediatrician as well as a full-time gynecologist to our current staff of 3 new graduate physicians, one general physician who coordinates the HIV/AIDS program, and one surgeon. We are also proud of our new cervical cancer detection program which began May 31st!

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References at:
http://saintmaryhaiti.com/friends_in_haiti.htm

Sister Jackie Picard
Born in Rhode Island, Sister Jackie's order is the Religious of Jesus and Mary (RJM) and she is a nurse. Before moving to Haiti in September 1997, Sister Jackie did extensive work in elderly nursing homes and was the director of a temporary medical shelter for homeless people with AIDS. Now living at Kay Se (Sisters' House) in Gros Morne, she helps coordinate the many missionaries that come to the Gros Morne area, often serving as an interpreter for them as well. She also is in charge of the formation for incoming Haitian candidates for RJM and is a member of the Board of Director for the local hospital, Alma Mater. She also facilitates getting local patients to and from Port-au-Prince for specialty medical services not available in Gros Morne.

http://www.rjm-us.org/

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http://cuamagazine.cua.edu/2010summer/notes.html

Sister Clarice Carroll, M.S.N. 1967 (NURS), retired as an associate professor of obstetrics/gynecology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in December 2009. In May she began work as a nurse-midwife practitioner at the Alma Mater Hospital in Gros-Morne, Haiti.

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http://www.medicineforpeace.org/haiti.htm

There is a regional hospital in Gros-Morne (the Alma Mater Hospital), that consists of five small, single-story, cinder block buildings with open windows and tin roofs. The local Catholic Church operates the hospital as well as a clinic (dispensaire) in each of the eight districts. Two part-time physicians and a small number of poorly trained community health aides attend to the 127,000 inhabitants of greater Gros-Morne.