VCOM 2017 Annual Report

inspired by caring

Honduras

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I n 2006, VCOM began a new collaborative partnership with the Baxter Foundation in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The Baxter Institute is home to a theology college for young men to study ministry and their spouses to enter mission work or other supportive occupations. VCOM worked with the Baxter Foundation to re-open the James Moody Adams (JMA) Clinic, providing primary care services for the local community as well as the young ministers and their families. The JMA Clinic is in an area of Tegucigalpa that is bound by poverty and in great need of primary healthcare services. Facility updates were completed in 2010 and 2017 for the clinic, which cares for more than 30 patients each day. VCOM faculty and students also provide

Partnership have developed a new laboratory in Honduras to provide the materials for prosthetic development and fitting. Though VCOM does not operate an affiliated clinic in Santa Rosa, the College provides annual medical outreach for a remote region in the mountains, where the country’s coffee crops are grown. For most of the patients from the region, this is the only healthcare they receive each year. Additionally, VCOM’s partner organization in Santa Rosa, Mission UpReach, has provided for the construction of a vocational center where fifty youth each year can attend a year-long program to develop career skills.

monthly clinics for four rural communities without access to healthcare approximately an hour from the city. In addition to the sustainable clinic, VCOM students coordinate an annual healthcare prevention and primary care screening program for the villages and communities that surround Tegucigalpa, referring patients with more serious conditions to the JMA Clinic for care. A new women’s health initiative provided over 100 pap smears each month and screened for infections, resulting in over 700 diagnoses of infections and 30 referrals for follow-up care. VCOM–Virginia student Michael Mabry and the Hope to Walk

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