The St. Boniface Haiti Foundation is dedicated to providing essential health services to the people of Southern Haiti, especially the most vulnerable. We are committed to building a comprehensive, efficient, and resilient health system that provides high quality care. We believe that ensuring access to life-saving and life-changing health services is a critical component to building strong and productive communities.

Working in partnership with local communities, we will transform Haiti's southern peninsula by ensuring that all people, regardless of their ability to pay, have access to high-quality, compassionate health care. By improving health, we will reduce unnecessary suffering and improve the standard of living for the entire region. SBHF's success will prove that quality health care can be a sustainable reality in Haiti, and will offer a model for health care systems in resource-poor settings around the world.

St. Boniface Hospital provides comprehensive, high-quality care to the communities of Southern Haiti. Services range from emergency and community-based care to more specialized offerings, including pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, rehabilitation services, obstetrics, surgery and dentistry. St. Boniface Hospital's full time surgical program began in 2015, after many years of intermittent surgical coverage by visiting volunteer teams. With the opening of SBHF's dedicated Surgical Center in late 2016, our capacity to provide safe, accessible surgical care has grown again. With modern, fully-equipped operating rooms, dedicated space for pre-and post-operative care, and on-call rooms for the surgical staff to have immediate access to the ORs when an emergency comes in, the SBHF Surgical Center is southern Haiti's most extensive surgical facility. Since the beginning of operation last year, more than 650 c-sections have been performed in the new center. The surgical program is just one example of SBHF's constantly expanding capacity to provide care.

SBHF uses a set of quantitative key performance indicators to assess progress. These indicators measure the number of hospital visitors both in general and broken down by commonly sought services as well as medical conditions. Not only does measuring these indicators allow SBHF to monitor our progress and ability to provide sufficient care, it also helps us follow trends as to what types of services are in highest demand, so these areas can be expanded. SBHF is committed to continuous expansion and improvement, and this information allows us to do so in the most effective manner.

In 2016, St. Boniface Hospital provided care to nearly 80,000 patients on our hospital grounds alone, 40% higher than the population treated in 2015. This tremendous growth is reflected across our services offered, as our capacities to treat patients with a range of different medical issues expands. The fall of 2017 will see the opening our of new Center for Infectious Disease and Emergency Care. This new facility will provide space for patients being treated for diseases like tuburculosis and cholera - two of the most virulent infectious diseases in rural Haiti - to be cared for in comfort and safety, isolated from other patients to avoid contagion as well as increase our medical staff's capacity to provide critical emergency care.