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  • Alaska's Tribal Health Organizations Are Essential, and Powerful

    July 31, 2024 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: Copper River, United States, Alaska

    Tribal health organizations deliver culturally competent healthcare, tailoring care to meet specific needs and overcome obstacles to access. These medical centers integrate traditional practices with modern medicine, and this approach to care has led to improved health outcomes for both Native and non-Native patients.

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  • Drones Are Whizzing Lifesaving Supplies Across the 'Last Mile'

    July 09, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    The Zipline drone system helps deliver life-saving medical supplies, such as blood and antivenom, to areas in the country that are hard to reach due to issues with the terrain, infrastructure or extreme weather. Since launching, Zipline has made more than one million deliveries.

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  • Mombasa Non-profit Paves Way for Inclusive Maternal Healthcare for Key Population Women

    June 08, 2024 |

    Media For Nature |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Mombasa

    Reachout Center Trust is addressing gaps in maternal healthcare with mobile outreach to connect pregnant women with clinics for full-service care up to delivery. The program has served over 200 women since forming and research shows its intervention has led to healthier babies and reduced stigma in seeking hospital care.

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  • Saving Mothers and Giving Life through Quality Accreditation of Private Health Facilities

    April 16, 2024 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    The Saving Mothers, Giving Life project aims to improve access to and the quality of maternal and infant healthcare to reduce maternal and newborn deaths. The project established a Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response team and launched an interactive digital chat solution on WhatsApp to get important health information to pregnant women. Through these efforts, maternal and perinatal deaths in 25 private health facilities decreased by 60% and 16%, respectively.

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  • Chatham Maternity Care Center bucks trend of rural maternity closures

    February 21, 2024 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Siler City, North Carolina

    As rural hospitals stopped providing maternity care, Chatham Hospital opened a new Maternity Care Center in September 2020. The five-bed unit provides care to low-risk mothers and newborns and is staffed with family physicians trained in obstetrics and surgery, to keep costs down. In three years, the Maternity Care Center has delivered 402 babies, with birth volumes gradually increasing each year.

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  • Rural Feeding Center Serves More than Nutrition to Children With Cleft Defects

    November 01, 2023 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    The Good Samaritan Nutritional Center supports mothers and their babies born with cleft palates in obtaining proper nutrition in order to be eligible for corrective surgery. The Center partners with local health facilities to perform the surgeries. The initiative has been active for 20 years now and has served over 15,000 children.

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  • Reducing Maternal Mortality in Nigeria: The SHI Response

    September 18, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osun

    The Safer Hands Health Initiative (SHI) aims to reduce maternal mortality across the country by educating and empowering birth attendants, healthcare centers and pregnant women to use safe delivery practices. SHI partners with medical boards and area hospitals to provide free training for birth attendants and also provides sterile birthing kits to expectant mothers. So far, SHI has trained over 200 birth attendants and has distributed more than 10,000 birthing kits.

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  • How New York's Public Hospitals Cut Carbon Emissions: More Vegetables

    August 31, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Plant-based food is now the default option at New York City’s 11 public hospitals, and the change is decreasing their greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, meat is only served upon special request.

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  • These Hospitals Are Welcoming RV Living For Patients, Families And Workers

    August 17, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Bend, Oregon

    Some hospitals like OHSU Hospital are free offering RV parking spaces with electric hookups for patients who are traveling great distances for medical treatment. Providing RV parking increases access to health care for patients, specifically those from rural areas. It also helps to improve patient comfort and quality of care, as they’re able to get a good night’s sleep in their RVs, rather than drive through the night or struggle to find lodging elsewhere.

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  • Rebuilding Health in Yobe State through PHC Rehabilitation and Social Equity Initiatives

    July 24, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Yobe

    To address gaps in healthcare access, the local government partnered with organizations like Plan International, German Cooperation and the World Bank’s Saving One Million Lives Project to build, refurbish and equip primary healthcare centers across the state to provide better care. As of May 2023, 138 centers have been built or upgraded, offering maternity care services, child healthcare, vaccinations and family planning among other services.

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