David Gaus, Winner of Social Entrepreneur Award
Dr. David Gaus, Executive Director of Andean Health and Development, just received the 2010 Social Entrepreneur Award for Latin America by the Schwab Foundation. He is currently at the World Economic Forum in Cartagena, Colombia, accepting the award.
The Schwab Foundation identifies and advances the missions of the world’s true innovators. This is great achievement for Dr. Gaus and for Andean Health & Development (AHD), who have started a model to build self-sustaining health infrastructure in Ecuador. AHD provides high quality care to patients today, while emphasizing the education of tomorrow’s Ecuadorian doctors and nurses.
Learn more about the award and the other winners by viewing the Schwab Foundation’s Press Release (pdf). Special thanks to the Schwab Foundation for recognizing the innovation of AHD’s rural hospital model.
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John Rudolf in the New York Times
Andean Health and Development Advisory Board Member is climbing Mount Everest to raise funds and awareness for AHD’s new hospital project in Santo Domingo, Ecuador.
He is featured in this article Everyman on Everest by Timothy Egan in the Opinion section of the New York Times from March 31, 2010.
John is currently making the month-long trek to Everest basecamp to begin is ascent to becoming the 110th person to climb all Seven Summits. His blog is here: www.johnrudolf7summits.com
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AHD Board Member, John Rudolf, Climbing Everest for Hospital Santo Domingo!
Long-time AHD Board Member, John Rudolf, from Seattle was recently featured in a news piece from the Pudget Sound Business Journal: “Executive is 29,035 feet from his dream”
He has already climbed six of the world’s “7 Summits.” Everest is John’s final and 7th summit, and he is climbing it to raise funds and awareness for Andean Health and Development’s new hospital project in Santo Domingo, Ecuador.
John left today to start the trek to base camp with his brother and his son, a New York Times writer, who will document the trip in this summer’s edition of Notre Dame Magazine. The entire excursion will take two months.
If John in fact summits Everest, he will be the 100th person to climb all 7 summits, including New Guinea’s remote Carstensz Pyramid.
We are thrilled to have John Rudolf on the AHD team! Stay posted on his progress by going to www.johnrudolf7summits.com.
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Biography of an Ecuadorian Resident: Dr. Monica Reimundo
My name is Mónica Judith Reimundo Carrera, and I was born in the city of Sangolquí, Ecuador, south of the capital city, Quito. I studied in the Central University of Ecuador in Quito. With Andean Health & Development, I have learned to live in the community [of Pedro Vicente Maldonado] while strengthening the relationships with my colleagues and the patients in the area. AHD offers quality medical attention to people in an area that is very distant from the city. We take each patient’s physical and mental situation into account.
I was LITERALLY born to work in my field. (I deliver babies!) As a physician, my purpose is to work with patients to prevent disease, cure ailments, and assist in their rehabilitation in order to maintain their good physical and mental health.
To me, medicine is a career that unites everything: strength, honesty, perseverance, and personal and professional growth.
In my family, I am the second of five. We all live with our mother, including my husband, Oswaldo. We don’t have children yet but we would like to once I finished the Residency Program with Andean Health & Development.
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Hospital PVM: Not your Everyday Hospital
This is a photo of Hospital Pedro Vicente Maldonado in rural Ecuador. It might look like kind of a boring building, but this hospital is in fact changing the face of health care in Latin America’s countryside. The hospital is financially self-sustainable, which means it will be here for the long-term. Read an earlier post to learn about financing of the hospital and how it maintains ‘break-even’ status. The hospital also houses a residency and nurse training program. This is another way this hospital lives on. The quality is of the hospital care is the best in Ecuador and no one is turned away. Learn more at www.andeanhealth.org
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