Medical donations support the Pueblo-based mission to improve lives of Haitians in Gonaives
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — American Vein & Vascular Institute recently donated more than 50 sets of scrubs to Health4Haiti, a non-profit that improves lives and healthcare outcomes for the citizens of Gonaives, Haiti.
Medical donations support the Pueblo-based mission to improve lives of Haitians in Gonaives
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — American Vein & Vascular Institute recently donated more than 50 sets of scrubs to Health4Haiti, a non-profit that improves lives and healthcare outcomes for the citizens of Gonaives, Haiti.
Gonaives is currently served by one public hospital, according to Health4Haiti’s website, and that hospital has been destroyed twice due to hurricane flooding in 2004 and 2008. There remains a great need for additional support to improve the area’s medical care infrastructure.
“Health4Haiti is grateful for your generosity and support,” said Dr. Jim Smith, president, Health4Haiti. “The employees of the clinic in Gonaives, Haiti will be happy to have new scrubs to wear at work. The clinic has been providing much-needed healthcare to the citizens of Gonaives since 2010.”
To learn more about the organization and opportunities to support it, visit www.healthfourhaiti.com.
American Vein & Vascular Institute is an award-winning network of vein and arterial diagnosis and treatment centers. For further information about American Vein’s staff, locations and services, call 844-263-5437 or visit www.americanvein.com.
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About American Vein & Vascular Institute
American Vein & Vascular Institute, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a world-class, award-winning network of vein and arterial diagnosis and treatment centers co-founded in 2009 by Dr. Gordon Gibbs, MD and Erin Gibbs. American Vein was recently granted a three-year term of accreditation by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in Vascular Testing. What was the first family owned and operated clinic in Pueblo, Colo., has since expanded to seven clinics across Colorado. Along the way, American Vein has earned industry accolades and a reputation for providing state-of-the-art technology and unmatched expertise while “delivering patient care and energy… to and from the heart.”
American Vein & Vascular Institute believes that good health and well-being are vital to a life well lived, and that the journey to reach a goal is just as important as the outcome. The company prides itself on providing exceptional healthcare and customer service to vein and vascular patients. Available services include diagnostic vein and health consultations, vein disease treatments, cosmetic treatments for varicose veins and spider veins, Botox beauty treatment packages, compression wear custom fittings at an onsite retail center, and peripheral arterial disease treatments.
About Health4Haiti
Health4Haiti is a 501(c)(3) medical humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the lives and health care of people in Gonaives, a city of over 350,00 people in Haiti. The Health4Haiti Partnership began as a series of mission trips made by parishioners of Pueblo, Colorado’s Ascension Episcopal Church in 1999. After Hurricane Jeanne flooded the city in 2004, the original group asked St. Mary-Corwin Health Foundation in Pueblo for its help to re-equip the hospital and to re-open its operating rooms. The result was a three-year grant from Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) in support of this mission, sending a medical team each year to re-open and maintain the operating rooms, to treat patients, and to build a new clinic at the Episcopal Church and School. Five other foundations have provided grant support as well.
Since receiving the grant, Health4Haiti has re-equipped the hospital twice with desperately needed equipment such as anesthesia machines, X-ray machines, surgical instruments, neonatal incubators, oxygen concentrators and beds.
