Mai Hospital and, ulti mately, to help establish a healthcare
system that will provide modern health services, and disaster
preparedness, throughout Vietnam. The Bach Mai Hospital
is the 2,000-bed, 3,000-pati ent Vietnamese Government
hospital for the poor of Vietnam.
Carl Bartecchi, with funding from Catholic Health Initi ati ves
Mission and Ministry Fund, a host of generous donors, and
volunteer physicians, clinical specialists, and professors from
St. Anthony Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, the Medical Schools
of the University of Colorado and Michigan State University,
and Nati onal Jewish Hospital, great strides have been made at
Bach Mai Hospital.
hospital equipment 180 hospital beds, 3 venti lators, 30
pati ent monitors, 30 gurneys, 7 ultrasound machines, and
many other items from the old St. Anthony Central Hospital
to the Bach Mai Hospital. This enormous undertaking was
accomplished, thanks to the eff orts of St. Anthony Hospital's
faciliti es department, Denver's Graebel Moving & Storage,
which trucked the equipment to Chicago, and Chapman
Freeborn, which loaded the equipment onto a huge cargo
plane and fl ew it to Hanoi.
people. With a grant from Catholic Health Initi ati ves Mission
and Ministry Fund, St. Anthony Hospital, St. Anthony
North Hospital and St. Anthony Summit Medical Center
embarked on a long-term project to build a "sister-hospital"
relati onship with Alma Mater Hospital. The purpose of the
project is to help this struggling hospital develop its own
operati ons, through educati on and working side-by-side with
the St. Anthony team, so that it can provide reliable medical
care and health outreach for the Gros Morne community.
Hospital, to meet with Sister Jacqueline Picard, who
has spent 16 years there. Along with hospital staff, they
assessed needs and began developing plans for a long-term
"sister-hospital" relationship.
Ministry Fund and to the many individual donors who
contributed money for medical equipment and supplies,
which were taken to Haiti with our teams.
transfer possible came from St. Anthony Hospital, Catholic
Health Initi ati ves, the Mayo Clinic, Michigan State University
Medical Center, the McCaw Foundati on, and many private
donors, including members of the American Vietnamese
community. Thank you for your support.
diff erence in the lives of people in two
very diff erent parts of the world
Vietnam and Haiti bringing educati on,
medical equipment, hospital experti se
and friendship to underserved people.