Our Clinic

The Hospice St. Joseph clinic reopened on Thursday morning March 4, less than 2 months after the earthquake destroyed what had been our newly equipped and efficiently operating Maternal and Child Health Center. That morning the patients waited under a tent and not in the clean waiting room some of them came to know. They were examined by our Haitian medical staff in rooms constructed of 2 x 4’s and plywood and shielded from the elements by sheet metal roofs and shower curtain doors. The pharmacy dispensed needed medication from a similarly constructed room with a scale outside the door and a baby scale next to it on a table each salvaged from the rubble of the old clinic. A lot was different, but the care was the same professional and compassionate care that they had experienced before the earthquake. And more importantly they knew it and we would continue to be there for them. For now we will be open 3 days a week instead of 5, but we will be there.