Trusted paediatric care in your neighbourhood
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Gertrude's Children's Hospital, Nairobi Kenya is the longest established paediatric hospital in East and Central Africa.Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital was founded in 1947, with the donation of land by Colonel Ewart Grogan, pioneer extraordinaire, in memory of his beloved wife, Gertrude Edith. As the years have passed, Gertrude's Children’s Hospital has become more and more of a 'giving' hospital. It has won prestigious awards for its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Gertrude's from the beginning was and will always be a simple hospital: it now has completed the full circle by becoming a place of hope for sick children who have no expectations elsewhere: “People all over the world find it difficult to find a model that can sustain children’s health because children are dependent on adults to pay for their upkeep, they don’t have an income, so the health system doesn’t readily support children’s hospitals as financial and viable projects.” The hospital is reaching out into peripheral clinics to offer child health services, vaccination and primary care. Seven day working, a shared record and IT for scheduling ensures that waiting times are very low and that continuity of care is maintained. In a competitive market forming an early relationship with children and their families is important and a well organised clinic, in a convenient location and staffed with skilled and well qualified professionals is an important part of this strategy. The model is very successful and won a Millennium Development Goal Award and is being copied by other providers in the country. Now with 100 beds, 11 outpatient centres within Nairobi and urban-Nairobi, the hospital admits roughly 6000 patients and 300,000 outpatients a year. Children’s hospitals are unique, the main fact that Gertrude’s concentrate on children alone is a strategic advantage. We are different because we have 21 specialist clinics, with patients we see on referral.
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