Nov 28, 2010

Federation to Send Second Medical Mission to Haiti in January 2011

Nearly a year after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Greater Miami Jewish Federation continues to fund several projects through partner agencies working to bring relief to the beleaguered island nation.

In addition, Federation’s Jewish Volunteer Center (JVC) and the Maimonides Society - Federation's healthcare division - have helped to coordinate special medical missions to Haiti, the first of which took place barely a month after the quake struck. That mission sent eight health care professionals from Miami to provide five days of assistance on the ground. In January 2011, Federation will continue its good works in Haiti, when the JVC and Maimonides Society send a second contingent for a weeklong medical mission.

Federation’s Second Medical Mission to Haiti will run from Friday, January 7 to Friday, January 14, 2011. The trip is being coordinated in partnership with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Project Medishare for Haiti, a partner in the first medical mission.

Currently, there are 15 spaces reserved for health care professionals, including those with the following specialties:

• Anesthesiology
• Emergency Medicine
• Family Medicine
• Intensive Care (Physicians)
• Internal Medicine
• Nursing (especially NICU/PICU)
• Orthopedics
• Pediatrics
• Respiratory Therapy
• Spinal Chord Specialists
• Surgery

Participants will work a seven-day rotation in the Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port Au Prince, and lodging, food and security will be provided by the hospital. There is no cost to participate in this mission.

For more information, or to reserve your space on this trip, contact Daniel Staffenberg or Lori Drutz or call 305.576.4000.