Hands-on experience gained in simulation labs will strengthen nurse training Posted on Aug 8, 2022 Longtime nurses Claudinette Favard and Nathalie Paul have seen a lot in their combined 27 years supporting patients and teaching nursing students in Haiti. But after nearly two weeks of training at Regis College Read more…
PIH Chief Medical Officer provides words of wisdom at Harvard and University of Michigan Medical School graduations Posted on July 19, 2022 In many ways, Dr. Joia Mukherjee, PIH’s chief medical officer, embodies “radical hope,” a concept she spoke about recently at Harvard Medical School’s Class Day in May. An Read more…
PIH CEO shares the co-founder’s influence on her and the field of nursing Posted on May 9, 2022 PIH CEO Dr. Sheila Davis reflects on the impact PIH Co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer had on her career as a nurse and leader and discusses the ways in which he inspired, and was inspired Read more…
PIH Liberia’s Daniel Maweu discusses the Nursing Center of Excellence Posted on Oct 28, 2021 Like many countries around the globe, Liberia has a shortage of nurses and midwives. In an effort to address this, Partners In Health (PIH) Liberia created the Nursing Center of Excellence in 2019 to recruit Read more…
Three-day training empowers nurses, prevents patient harm Posted on Oct 14, 2021 Mental disturbances from delirium are usually temporary, but they can be life-threatening—which is why it’s critical to recognize and diagnose the condition. At PIH-supported J.J. Dossen Memorial Hospital, 16 nurses recently received delirium and agitation training and are Read more…
Dr. Aaron Berkowitz, who helped develop the program, discusses his new book and the importance of Haitian-led training Posted on Sep 16, 2021 When Dr. Aaron Berkowitz read Mountains Beyond Mountains during medical school, he quickly became interested in Partners In Health (PIH). But he wasn’t quite sure how a neurologist could Read more…
Women among majority of students taking PIH program boosting literacy, support Posted on Sep 7, 2021 It’s almost 5 p.m. in rural Kono District, Sierra Leone, and the wind is picking up while dark clouds threaten rain. Still, though they have families to get home to, preferably before the downpour Read more…
Thirty-seven residents have trained in family medicine since the program’s inception in 2012 Posted January 26, 2021 When a pregnant woman was rushed to Saint-Nicolas Hospital in Saint-Marc for severe bleeding, Dr. Charnee Magalie Villemenay—now a second-year medical resident—had to act quickly, as the baby’s heart rate had begun to Read more…
Nursing seen as core to their personal missions to lead, serve, and comfort others Posted on January 26, 2021 It was a typical morning for Gretta Joseph, deputy chief nursing officer at University Hospital of Mirebalais in Haiti. She was still at home, going through her work email and getting Read more…
Faster registration and better access to medical records are streamlining care at the rural hospital, and are hallmarks of PIH’s multi-country effort to improve how health data is collected, stored and used.