Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Haiti's healthcare system is lacking in primary care and emergency medicine. Cervical cancer, which is preventable, is still the number one cause of cancer in Haitian women. There is no coordinated Haitian emergency medical system. Our organization is focused on educating Haitian physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals on the skills necessary to prevent disease and respond to emergencies around the country.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Cervical Cancer Screening Program
We provide continuing medical education classes to Haitian physicians, nurses, and midwives in cervical cancer screening using visualization with acetic acid and colposcopy to identify pre-cancerous or cancerous lesions.
Basic Life Support training
Basic Life Support training is the cornerstone of a successful community healthcare program, yet it is rarely taught in Haiti, even to licensed healthcare professionals. Primary Care Haiti has volunteer Basic Life Support certified trainers come to Haiti to provide a complete training course, including final examination, to hospital employees, nursing and medical students, and to the community. Students who pass the course are given American Heart Association Basic Life Support cards so they, and the hospital, know when it is time to renew their certification. We are focused on providing this training in rural Haiti and have started with L'Hopital Bienfaisance in Pignon, Haiti.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support trianing program
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) is the cornerstone of any successful emergency medicine, intensive care, and paramedic program, yet it is rarely taught to healthcare professionals in Haiti. Primary Care Haiti has volunteer Emergency Medicine Physicians come and train Haitian medical providers on ACLS.
Emergency Medicine Training Program
Primary Care Haiti’s Emergency Response Training program focuses on the rapid-response skills required in an emergency. The program includes Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation, triage training, and mass casualty triage and management. Primary Care Haiti volunteer trainers enhance the program by working through scenarios that their students are likely to see in Haiti on a regular basis. Primary Care Haiti donates mannequins so the medical facility may meet our requirement that the trainings continue after our volunteers return home. As in our other programs, Primary Care Haiti requires biannual medical equipment usage report and quarterly training reports to ensure that the healthcare providers’ and broader community’s needs are met.
Ultrasound Course
In rural Haiti, there is practically no availability of advanced imaging such at CAT scans or MRIs. Ultrasound is inexpensive and portable, making it the ideal choice for imaging in many situations. Point of care ultrasound is often the only imaging technique needed to diagnose a multitude of medical conditions. Primary Care Haiti has certified ultrasonographers on its volunteer roster who provide detailed, practical training to Haitian medical professionals, on the following:
Obstetrics: first, second and third trimester
Echocardiography
Abdomen (liver, pancreas, gallbladder, aorta)
Upper and lower extremity venous
Thyroid
Primary Care Haiti and the hosting medical facility enter into a donation agreement in which, in exchange for the ultrasound machine, the medical facility agrees to provide regular trainings and that its providers will use the machine regularly. Primary Care Haiti requires biannual medical equipment usage report and quarterly training reports to ensure that the healthcare providers’ and broader community’s needs are met.
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of training workshops
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, People of African descent
Related Program
Emergency Medicine Training Program
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Training workshops for healthcareworkers in Haiti focusing on cervical cancer screening, basic and advanced life support classes for adults and pediatrics, and diagnostic ultrasound training.
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Our organization aims to create a coordinated educational training program for Haitian physicians and nurses to learn up to date information on primary care and emergency medicine.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Primary Care Haiti aims to develop training programs for Haitian medical professionals. The strategies we use to accomplish our goals are as follows: First we partner with Haitian public hospital systems that share our goals of providing continuing medial education to Haitian healthcare professionals. Second, we partner with healthcare systems outside of Haiti to encourage them to donate gently used lifesaving medical equipment to hospitals around Haiti. In addition, we focus on fundraising efforts to purchase much needed medical supplies and equipment. Third, we pair volunteer physicians from the US with Haitian physicians on the ground to create curriculum geared specifically toward training Haitian medical professionals in primary care and emergency medicine. Fourth, we organize health fairs to encourage patients to receive life saving care free of charge. These health fairs coincide with our medical training courses so Haitian medical professionals are able to immediately put into practice the skills they have acquired. Fifth, we create a competency program to certify that the Haitian medical professional has gone through the training program and is competent in the skill acquired. Sixth, we keep records of our impact in terms of how many Haitian medical professionals were trained and how many patients were examined.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Our organization is capable of meeting our goals because we focus on one healthcare system, one Haitian medical professional, and one life at a time. We have a tremendous staff of volunteer medical personnel who devote their time to creating a quality curriculum that can provide reliable continuing medical education courses to Haitian doctors and nurses. in addition, our organization has developed strong contacts with physicians and community organizers in Haiti which helps us achieve our goals.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Our organization has made tremendous progress thus far. During our June 2017 trip to Haiti, we developed our partnership with L'Hopital Bienfaisance in Pignon, Haiti. We solidified partnerships with organizations in the US and obtained 12 pallets of donated lifesaving medical supplies and equipment. We partnered with DHL who shipped all of our items to Haiti for free. We trained over 100 nursing and medical students and 5 physicians in cervical cancer screening and emergency lifesaving procedures such as basic life support and advanced cardiac life support. Finally, we performed cervical cancer screening for over 700 patients during our health fair. The future for Primary Care Haiti focuses on solidifying partnerships with other Haitian hospital systems, further developing our core teaching curriculum, developing a sustainable screening and treatment program for cervical cancer utilizing the latest mobile technology, and changing the healthcare paradigm in Haiti toward a focus on primary care and emergency medicine.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
Healthcare providers working in Haiti
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Based on feedback from our participants, we will be offering new courses based on level of education and skill of participants in order for everyone to benefit equally from our trainings.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently
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Primary Care Haiti
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Dr Kissinger Goldman
Dr Jennifer Goldman
Marie Evelyn Moise
Simon Serrao
Joanne Cancelmo
John Voltaire
Catherine Voltaire
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.