Founded in 1983, Health Equity International is driven by the idea that health is the key to a society where every person can achieve her or his fullest potential. By showing what is possible in southern Haiti, it aims to be a model for providing high-quality, accessible healthcare in resource-poor places. HEI owns and operates St. Boniface Hospital, the only tertiary care center and referral hospital for the more than 2.3 million people in southern Haiti.
HEI's mission is to provide 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.
Through SBH, a satellite clinic, and mobile clinics, HEI reaches more than 110,000 patients a year.
Founded in 1983, Health Equity International is driven by the idea that health is the key to a society where every person can achieve her or his fullest potential. By showing what is possible in southern Haiti, it aims to be a model for providing high-quality, accessible healthcare in resource-poor places. HEI owns and operates St. Boniface Hospital, the only tertiary care center and referral hospital for the more than 2.3 million people in southern Haiti.
HEI's mission is to provide 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.
Through SBH, a satellite clinic, and mobile clinics, HEI reaches more than 110,000 patients a year.
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What is your organization aiming to accomplish?
Health Equity International 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.
What are your strategies for making this happen?
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.
What are your organization's capabilities for doing this?
Health Equity International's 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, our Surgical Center is southern Haiti's most extensive surgical facility. In 2018, St. Boniface Hospital opened its Center for Infectious Disease and Emergency Care (CIDEC), a one-of-a-kind facility in Haiti. The CIDEC provides the only 24/7 emergency care in southern Haiti. It also provides safe, diginifed care to patients with an infectious disease through the use of its six negative pressure isolation rooms designed to help patients heal comfortably while preventing the spread of contagions. Finally, St. Boniface Hospital operates one of the busiest maternity wards in the country. With few options for affordable maternal care, women travel from as far away as Port-au-Prince to access our services. Our staff deliver nearly 500 babies each month, which is on par with deliveries at major metropolitan hospitals in the United States. We have the only fully-functional, 24/7 NICU in southern Haiti. From comprehensive prenatal care to emergency obstetrical surgeries, St. Boniface Hospital provides lifesaving care for mothers and their babies.
How will your organization know if you are making progress?
Health Equity International 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 HEI 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. HEI is committed to continuous expansion and improvement, and this information allows us to do so in the most effective manner.
What have and haven't you accomplished so far?
In 2019, St. Boniface Hospital had nearly 140,000 patient visits, a 20% increase in visits than in 2018. Demand for our services has increased as we continue to expand our capacity to treat a wide variety of medical conditions. In addition, the closure of many other healthcare facilities across Haiti has also led to an increase in patients at our facility. We are currently working to expand our maternal health center and NICU to be able to support a greater number of women and their children who come to us for care.
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This impact information is current as of March 2020, when it was provided to us by GuideStar.
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Program names and associated costs are listed for the top programs as reported on the charity's most recently filed Form 990. The top programs displayed will include the largest three programs, or those programs covering at least 60% of the charity's total expenses, whichever comes first.
Program Name
Amount Spent
% of Program Expenses
Hospital Facility in Haiti
$4,382,320
46.1%
Education Programs and Other
$2,126,544
22.4%
Maternal & Child Health Program
$1,009,506
10.6%
Federal-Grant Related Programs
$1,006,413
10.6%
Ratings History Health Equity International has received 13 consecutive 4-star ratings from Charity Navigator.
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations).
