Project HOPE Presents The Clinics Program Evaluation at Presidential Palace
Posted on: Monday, 10 July 2006, 18:00 CDT
MILLWOOD, Va., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoe Kopp, Director, Outcomes Research at Pfizer Inc in New York, New York, today traveled to the Dominican Republic to present the final report of the Project HOPE evaluation of The Clinics Program. President Leonel Fernandez requested a presentation of the results at the Presidential Palace on July 11, 2006.
The Clinics Program, which is celebrating its 10th year, is supported by Project HOPE and managed by the Dominican Association of the Order of Malta (ADOM). The Program consists of two Primary and Maternal and Child Health Care (PMC/MCH) Clinics. One in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, another in Monte Plata, a rural district situated approximately two hours north of the capital. The clinics provide high quality PMC/MCH services at low cost.
ADOM, a national non-government organization, provides management for the self-sustaining clinics once established by Project HOPE. Project HOPE provides significant technical and managerial assistance and donations of supplies.
"The Clinics Program utilizes effective, long-term solutions created by our partnerships," said Project HOPE's President and CEO John P. Howe, III, M.D. "For the past ten years, Project HOPE and the Dominican Association of the Order of Malta have worked to build clinics that provide quality healthcare in the Dominican Republic. This assessment conducted by the evaluation team will be instrumental in establishing additional clinics throughout the country to provide low-cost, quality healthcare to all."
Kopp, a Pfizer Global Health Fellow, spent three months working with Project HOPE in the Dominican Republic to evaluate the services and quality of care of the PMC/MCH Clinics Program. The evaluation results will be utilized to determine best practices for replicating the clinics in the Dominican Republic and other developing countries.
President Fernandez learned of Ms. Kopp's evaluation during her Fellowship with Project HOPE when they met at a conference discussing the changing demographics of the Dominican Republic -- increased population, urbanization and weak or absent urban development plans -- that are challenging the future of the country. The president requested that Ms. Kopp return with her findings when the report was complete.
"As a Global Health Fellow, I felt privileged to be in the position to assess the exemplary primary healthcare program that has resulted from the joint efforts of Project HOPE and the Dominican Association of the Order of Malta. It provided me with great satisfaction to conduct an evaluation that documents a success story; the accomplishments of two clinics, which are the best that I have seen in my twenty years of experience in five continents," Kopp said. "The team work at the Herrera and Monte Plata clinics is an eloquent dance coordinated by the good will and capabilities of each member to do the best they can as a team to provide excellent care to each client."
ABOUT PROJECT HOPE
Founded in 1958, Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) is dedicated to providing lasting solutions to health problems, with the mission of helping people to help themselves. Identifiable to many by the SS HOPE, the world's first peacetime hospital ship, Project HOPE now conducts land-based medical training and health education programs across five continents. For more information, please visit http://www.projecthope.org/ .
ABOUT GLOBAL HEALTH FELLOWS
Global Health Fellows are Pfizer employees who volunteer up to six months of their time to work on projects that address serious health issues around the world. Global Health Fellows is a unique approach to corporate philanthropy that pairs Pfizer employees with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other devastating diseases. For more information on the Pfizer Global Health Fellows program go to http://www.pfizerphilanthropy.com/.
ABOUT THE ORDER OF MALTA
The Order of Malta remains true to its inspiring principles, summarized in the motto "Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum," defense of the Faith and assistance to the poor and the suffering, which become reality through the voluntary work carried out by Dames and Knights in humanitarian assistance and medical and social activities. Today the Order carries out these activities in over 120 countries. For more information on The Order of Malta go to http://www.orderofmalta.org/.
CONTACT: LORI ALLESEE PROJECT HOPE (540) 837-2100 lallesee@projecthope.org
Project HOPE
CONTACT: Lori Allesee of Project HOPE, +1-540-837-2100, orlallesee@projecthope.org
Web site: http://www.projecthope.org/
Source: PRNewswire
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