ON A MISSION: St. Anne's Hospital employees head to Haiti

According to a recent report in the Herald News, a team of 12 health care professionals, including a doctor and a nurse from St. Anne's Hospital in Fall River, MA packed up and headed to Haiti on Wednesday January 20th to aid in the relief effort after the devastating earthquake that shook the poor Caribbean nation on January 12th. The team of 12 is comprised of clinicians from Caritas Christi, New England's largest community based hospital network. This group will be spending 7-10 days at the Sacre Coeur hospital, helping the understaffed hospital with it's overwhelming number of patients. Once this group returns to New England, a relief team will be sent down to "replace the existing team." Along with the 12 team members, Caritas Christi will also be sending wound care materials such as sutures and bandages donated by Covidien Healthcare and nearly $1 million in medical equipment, donated by Phillips Healthcare. This equipment includes "OR and vital sign monitors, defibrillators, fetal monitors, ultrasound
equipment, ventilators, and other supplies." Team members are being sent with important communication devices such as blackberries,





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