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State Emergency Responders and Volunteers of Florida
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| Organization Name | Eagles Wings Foundation - Disaster Relief |
| Contact Person | Scott Lewis |
| Telephone | (561) 304-8509 |
| E-Mail Address | scott@theeagleswingsfoundation.org |
| Website | www.theeagleswingsfoundation.org |
| Description | The Eagles Wings Foundation, Inc., is a multi faith-based, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit, public foundation set up for aiding disaster survivors in the United States and the Caribbean region. The Board of Directors is comprised of devout people of many faiths dedicated to ensuring that all donations are used solely for the purpose of meeting the needs of disaster survivors. Eagles Wings has no paid staff or overhead. Office space is donated, and all work is done by volunteers ensuring that all donations have the greatest impact on the people we serve. After 10 years of working with many charitable groups, Eagles Wings now is a support agency with Volunteer Florida and a member of Florida VOAD (Volunteer Organizations Active in Disasters). Eagles Wings works under the State of Florida’s ESF-15 Officer as part of the State Emergency Response Team (SERT) Pathfinder EMAC Force package.
After every disaster, there is a tremendous need for someone to coordinate the activities of the unaffiliated volunteers and charities that wish to help, so that the rescuers do not become a burden to the disaster survivors. Eagles Wings'' "Pathfinders" fill this gap with its own supporting Volunteer Management Team (VMT) which includes a Pathfinder Commander, Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance Section Chiefs, a medical officer, an IT specialist, a supply depot unit leader, and a military liaison officer.
A unique GPS mapping software (patent pending) precisely tracks the unmet needs of survivors, and separates this unit from any other unit currently in service
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| Organization Name | Disaster Medical Assistance Team |
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| Website | www.dmat.org/teamlinks.html |
| Description | The link above is the for information on Disaster Medical Assistance Teams. There are 6 DMATs in Florida, numbers 14 - 20 on the list at this site, and 50 scattered around the US. DMATs are basically mobile emergency rooms. They are fully equipped and fully self sufficient. Members of the teams include all levels of medical personnel, psychologists, logisticians, safety officers, security personnel and more. They are supported by the Federal Government and work under Federal sovereign immunity. Members of DMAT are compensated for the time they are deployed by FEMA. DMATs are deployed in times of disaster such as hurricanes, earth quakes, acts of terrorism and any situation that involves mass casualties.
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| Organization Name | Partners In Health |
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| Telephone | 617-432-5256 |
| E-Mail Address | info@pih.org |
| Website | www.pih.org |
| Description | Partners In Health - a longtime provider of medical services in Haiti is in urgent need of volunteers with significant surgical or trauma training and experience - orthopedic surgeons, trauma surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, PA''s, NP''s, OR nurses, post-op nurses, and surgical technicians for volunteer assignments in Haiti. In addition, they are in need of medical supplies and of course $$ to support their efforts. Medical supplies needed:
* Orthopedic supplies, surgical consumables (sutures, bandages, non-powdered sterile gloves, syringes, etc.), and large unopened boxes of medications. Unfortunately, they cannot accept small quantities or unused personal medications. They also need blankets, tents, and satellite phones with minutes. People with private planes willing to fly medical personnel and/or large quanities of supplies are also greatly needed. To volunteer or to donate $$ or any of the above goods, click on click on the web link above.
With the collapse of the hospital system in Port Au Prince, Partners in Health is now the single largest healthcare provider in Haiti. PIH''s first clinic in Haiti started treating patients in 1985. The PIH model was formally founded in 1987 by Dr. Paul Farmer, Thomas J. White, and Todd McCormack, joined soon thereafter by Ophelia Dahl and Jim Yong Kim. The history of Partners In Health is recounted in Pulitzer Prizewinner Tracy Kidder’s bestselling book, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House, 2003).
PIH''s work as a nonprofit focusing on delivery of quality health care in poor communities benefits from longstanding ties to Harvard Medical School and one of its teaching hospitals, the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as a more recent affiliation with the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. These alliances enable PIH to translate its lived experience serving the destitute sick into clinical and operational research, education and training paradigms, and programs and policies that reduce health disparities and improve treatment outcomes.
This collaboration among a non-profit organization, a world-renowned medical school, a major teaching hospital and a leading school of public health is a new and fruitful model for leveraging the resources of the world’s leading institutions to inspire, enlist, and train others to address the pressing health inequalities of our times. Working alongside local staff from our sister organizations at each of our project sites, clinicians and researchers from across the “Four Pillars” provide care to patients and train colleagues and junior staff. They also conduct cross-disciplinary, biosocial research on AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases of the poor and advocate on behalf of those they serve.
The PIH model is being replicated in 9 countries:
Information about Partners In Health in Haiti from their website:
Zanmi Lasante (“Partners In Health” in Haitian Kreyol) is PIH’s flagship project – the oldest, largest, most ambitious, and most replicated. The small community clinic that first started treating patients in the village of Cange in 1985, has grown into the Zanmi Lasante (ZL) Sociomedical Complex, featuring a 104-bed, full-service hospital with two operating rooms, adult and pediatric inpatient wards, an infectious disease center (the Thomas J. White Center), an outpatient clinic, a women’s health clinic (Proje Sante Fanm), ophthalmology and general medicine clinics, a laboratory, a pharmaceutical warehouse, a Red Cross blood bank, radiographic services, and a dozen schools. ZL has also expanded its operations to eight other sites across Haiti’s Central Plateau and beyond. Today, ZL ranks as one of the largest nongovernmental health care providers in Haiti – and the only provider of comprehensive primary care, regardless of ability to pay, for more than half a million impoverished people living in the mountainous Central Plateau.
Our community-based model has proven successful in delivering effective care both for common conditions like diarrhea, pneumonia, and childbirth that often prove fatal for Haiti’s poor and malnourished, and for complex diseases like HIV and tuberculosis. A key to this success and to the PIH model of care pioneered in Haiti has been training and hiring thousands of accompagnateurs (community health workers) to prevent illness, monitor medical and socioeconomic needs, and deliver quality health care to people living with chronic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis.
In each of our expansion sites, we have partnered with other nongovernmental organizations and the Haitian Ministry of Health to rebuild or refurbish existing clinics and hospitals, introduce essential drugs to the formulary, establish laboratories, train and pay community heath workers, and complement Ministry of Health personnel with PIH-trained staff. Clinics that previously stood empty now register hundreds of patients each day across our nine sites—Cange, Boucan Carré, Hinche, Thomonde, Belladčre, Lascahobas, and Cerca La Source in the Central Plateau plus two recent additions in the Artibonite region, Petite Rivičre and Saint Marc. In 2005, ZL recorded more than 1.1 million patient visits at our clinical sites, not including well over a million more home visits by community health workers.
In 1998, Zanmi Lasante launched the world’s first program to provide free, comprehensive HIV care and treatment in an impoverished setting. Two years later, with support from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, this pilot effort was expanded across central Haiti and became known as the HIV Equity Initiative. The initiative is now a global model for the delivery of community-based treatment for complex diseases within the context of comprehensive primary care. In November 2003, a lengthy article in the New York Times, datelined from Cange, stated, “No program to treat people in the poorest countries has more intrigued experts than the one started in Haiti by Partners In Health.”
In the course of expanding our care of HIV-positive patients and their families, we have also significantly increased our ability to identify and treat patients with other diseases.
Women’s health has always been a strong focus of ZL’s outreach activities, and is one of the four essential components of the HIV Equity Initiative. One of ZL’s first projects was a women’s clinic, Proje Sante Fanm, which offers family planning, pre- and post-natal care, assisted deliveries and caesarean sections, vaccination of women and children, and screening and treatment of HIV, other sexually transmitted infections and cervical cancer. In 2005, Proje Sante Fanm provided clinical services to 40,000 women and served hundreds of thousands more through outreach in the countryside.
ZL has also been an incubator for other innovative programs, such as its Program on Social and Economic Rights (POSER). PIH has long championed the need for social as well as medical support for our patients. POSER addresses the social inequalities that put our patients at increased risk of disease by providing nutritional support, building houses, paying for school fees and installing well caps or filtering systems to ensure access to clean drinking water.
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| Organization Name | PRINTS OF HOPE |
| Contact Person | Ketty |
| Telephone | 305-528-1593 |
| E-Mail Address | information@printsofhope.org |
| Website | http://printsofhope.org |
| Description | Prints of Hope , also known as Dejando Huellas is a faith bases non profit organization that provides humanitarian aid to unpriviledge communities throughout the world. Hunger, poverty and lack of basic medical attention are the reasons why Dejando Huellas was founded. the organization provides hope to these communities in two basic ways;clothing children in need and providing those children with medical care.
HAITI RELIEF!!
A massive, 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti near the capital of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, January 12th. The damage to buildings is extensive and the number of injured or dead is estimated to be in the hundreds, even thousands. Prints of Hope will use 100% of the donations for emergency supplies to survivors of this catastrophe.
Your gift now will help distribute life-saving relief supplies – including food, clean water, blankets, and tents — to children and families devastated by the earthquake and aftershocks in Haiti.
To donate go to:
http://printsofhope.org/HOWTOHELP/ADOPTAPROJECT/tabid/359/language/en-US/Default.aspx
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| Telephone | 786-873-6146 |
| E-Mail Address | aymeefcu@yahoo.com |
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| Description | Gerontology and Geriatrics Specialist.
General Practitioner Graduate in University of Havana,Cuba.
Medical assistance in U.S.A and C.N.A. |
| Organization Name | Project Medishare for Haiti |
| Contact Person | Paulette Richards |
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| E-Mail Address | prichards@med.miami.edu |
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| Description | Palm Beach County Medical Society strongly recommends that if you choose to volunteer that you contact Project Medishare for Haiti, a well established volunteer organization with experience working in Haiti . You can sign up by contacting Paulette Richards, Project Medishare @ prichards@med.miami.edu |
| Organization Name | Dorsainvil and World Wide Village |
| Contact Person | Chris Acevedo |
| Telephone | c: 954.290.7003 |
| E-Mail Address | cacevedo@acevedoconsulting.com |
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| Description | Chris is organizing rotating medical teams in and out of a hopital in PAP, with flights out of the Boca Raton Executive Airport on private aircraft. They need PAs! Several have already responded and will be deploying in the next day or two. Please contact Chris if you are interested. He will need the follwing informtion:
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From the AAPA: Ways you can help earthquake victims in Haiti
CLICK HERE TO READ THE LATEST UPDATES COMING IN FROM THOSE PAs DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN HAITI RELIEF EFFORTS.
From: FAPA Website
Sent: 1/16/2010 1:18:33 PM
Subject: Haiti Disaster Relief
Dear PA:
I will be limiting these updates to one a day for the sake of efficiency. I have also asked Eric Smith, the FAPA web master extrordinaire, to create a page on our website where you can add the organizations you know about so there will be a permanent place this information will be available for future reference, this page will be up and running very soon.
Below are emails from the State Emergency Responders and Volunteers of Florida, as well as from PAs who are now in Haiti:
Dear MRC Volunteer:
This e-mail will provide you with current information on Florida's involvement with the Haiti Response.
Today, the state SERVFL team conducted an urgent conference call with all Local MRC Coordinators. The purpose was to coordinate our efforts and share updates so that we all have the same information, this reduces both confusion and rumors.
This is the information that we know right now (Current Situation):
1. The State of Florida has not declared an emergency. There is no executive order from the Office of the Governor.
2. Responders that are currently going to Haiti are part of the federal response through the U.S Department of Health & Human Services.
3. As of today, there are no planned deployments or missions to Haiti through Florida's State Emergency Operations Center. This includes the Florida Department of Health and the MRCs.
4. The Florida Department of Health may be requested to support repatriation and service centers for Haitians entering Florida. Two centers are currently planned in Miami. MRC support may be needed .
Right now, the one of the worst things that someone could do is decide to go to Haiti as an individual and try to help. A coordinated effort of identified and prepared teams that have a defined mission is always the best response.
Through the State Emergency Operations Center, we are coordinated through a system. Keeping that in mind:
1. Your local MRC coordinator will notify you when or if MRC volunteers are needed to support Florida's response.
2. You can assist now by going to www.servfl.com, reviewing your profile information, and making updates as needed. If you speak Haitian-Creole or French, please make sure that information is indicated in the language section of your profile.
3. Please share the phone number (800-342-3557) to the Florida Emergency Information Line to anyone who may have questions.
Thank you, your volunteerism is very important. The SERVFL Team.
Mike
The DMATs (Disaster Medical Assistance Team) are federal emergency medical teams under the Dept. of Health and Human Services with doctors, PAs, NPs, nurses, paramedics, communicators, logisticians, psychologists etc. They are fully equipped with deployable shelters, water purification equipment, medical supplies and life support. My team, Florida One DMAT is already in Haiti and operational. PAs are encouraged to join a DMAT and train to be ready for the next emergency. Check out the web site http://fl1dmat.com
George N. Roll, PA
There are 6 DMATs in Florida, each covering a specific area, but they are deployed to disasters where ever they are needed. Each DMAT can be reached by typing http://fl(the number of the team you are interested in)dmat.com. Example: http://fl2dmat.com, http://fl3dmat.com, etc.
DMATs are mobile emergency rooms. They are fully equipped and self contained. They provide medical care equal to or better than any ED you have been in. However, you must join and participate in training before you are deployed. They do not welcome drop in volunteers, no matter how well trained you are, just like your local ED wouldn't let you come in off the street and work. If you are so inclined to be part of a highly trained and higly functional team, this is for you!
Mike:
I have done medical work in Haiti with an organization called Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches which has a presence established in Northwest Haiti. I actually did a medical clinic there almost two years ago to the the day of the earthquake.
With all of the devastation in Port-au-Prince LWM says they are expecting many to flee to the countryside where conditions are slightly better and where people may have relatives located there. As a result they are anticipating a drain on the food, water, and medical supplies which normally funnel into these villages. With Port-au-Prince devastated, they have lost a major supply route.
LWM is sending 12 sea containers which will be offloaded at a port along the coast, outside of Port-au-Prince. They are estimating the cost to be around $100,000 for shipping . They have the manifests and paperwork channels already set up as they make shipments there regularly. As yet, they are not calling for volunteers as this would probably only add to the strain on limited supplies of food and water (as mentioned in one of your emails). They are taking donations on their website: www.livingwaterhaiti.org . Anyone wishing to make donations would be well served to donate to LWM.
As your prior email said, the infrastructure prior to the earthquake was sketchy at best. Now it is nonexistent. Many personnel want to rush in to help but right now they may not be able to get alot done until the roads are cleared and some sort of large scale coordination plan is implemented. From what I am seeing, much needed supplies are bottled up at the airport. The seaport in Port-au-Prince is shut down.
Let me know if you or anyone has questions about LWM's operation there.
Tim Grabowski, PA-C
FAPA Vice President
Mr Funk,
Hope all is well. I am about to leave to Haiti this evening with a Trauma team from Broward General. I am the only PA in this team, and I will do my best to represent the PA profession as well as delivering compassionate medical care to those who need it. I will deploying with Dr. Kevin Shrock (Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon and others surgeons too.)
I will have an update for you when I return.
Prayers to all,
Ray Rakhar, PA-C
Hey Mr. Funk,
I was your student at NSU, graduating in August of 2003. I just returned from working in Haiti for 2 years as a PA for DOS. I am devastated by the news...www.haiticlinic.org is out of Indian River county. Gayl Nye - Paramedic (also I take all of my ACLS through her every 2 years...her business is Florida Heart CPR) and Dr. Parvis go to Haiti multiple times per year through FAVACA...www.favaca.org. This is a State of Florida legislated group that does humanitarian aid in the Caribbean; the headquarters is located in Tallahassee. It was established by Gov Bob Graham in the 1980s. Gayl and Dr. Parvis's clinic is accepting donations. Also, I am a member of Physician Assistants for Global Health...www.pasforglobalhealth.org which is a AAPA group. They already sent a group down yesterday or the day before...but websites for the above will explain more about their efforts.
We have 53 US police officers working IN MINUSTAH right now, and I was their Medical Officer and ESH Representative for 2 years beginning in March 2007. All are accounted for and are well. I actually was Annabi's umbrella girl at a Medal Parade at Ambassadors house. I am in constant contact with US Embassy nurse even now...as you can tell, I have such fond memories of this country, and wish I was there right now assisting the folks...today on TV I saw Counsel General Don Moore who also is a close friend...
Sincerely,
Jana K. Ray, PA
Eagles Wings/Pathfinders was not able to land in PAP so they went to the DR, which many people are doing, and then hired a van and security and drove to PAP, a drive that usualyy takes 8 hours but took them 10 because of bridges being out and general disaster road conditions. They are working on securing a place from which to operate. They are deploying their Rapid Disaster Assessment team using the GPS mobile phone technology described on the home page. Accordng to their on site report, the news media is not giving an accurate assessment of the lawlessness that is going on. It is VERY dangerous!
I have been told there is a group of physicians in Broward County who are operating shuttle flights to Haiti from the Broward Executive Airport. Contact Broward County Medical Association for information.
There are many local groups getting ivolved in in this response. Please contact your local medical society and see how you can help. The FAPA website page will be open soon for you to add your group(s).
Sincerely,
Mike Funk, PA-C
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