Built in 1984, the Haitian Community Hospital is managed by the Haitian Health and Education Foundation (FHASE), a non-government and non-profit foundation created in 1972.
Through its public health programs, outpatient clinics, and 75-bed inpatient hospital, HCH has provided quality care to upwards of 80,000 people annually. It is committed to and accessible to the most disadvantaged sections of the area.
Given its geographic position and services, Haitian Community Hospital aims to serve a population of 250,000 people, mainly from the communes of Pétion-ville (283,052 inhabitants) and Delmas (679,650 inhabitants).
Riverfront Times, "Missouri Therapists to Haiti's Rescue", June 30, 2010
On Easter Sunday, Jo Ann Roberts, a physical therapist from University City, and her colleagues Judy Labarbera and Donna Hutchinson, boarded a plane bound for Port-au-Prince intent on doing something to help the thousands of Haitians injured in the Januar