ClClíínica Nueva Vida:nica Nueva Vida: Providing Health Care Providing Health Care

to Familiesto Families

A Project of the Center for Development in

Central America

□ I pledge $_____________ monthly towards the on-going costs of the clinic □ Enclosed please find $_________________ as a tax-deductible contribution. Online giving: Makes it easy to give monthly or occasionally

https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/jhc-cdca or scan here to donate online: For information about volun-teer opportunities, or if interest-ed in collecting medical equip-ment and/or supplies for the clinic, please contact us:

jhc@jhc-cdca.org Name:________________________________

Address:______________________________ _____________________________________ Phone/Fax/Email:________________________________

Please mail to: Center for Development in Central America Jubilee House Community, Inc. c/o Donita Miller 420 Longhorn Dr, Rock Hill, SC 29732-8886

It costs $960/day to run the clinic. You can pledge to the on-going ex-penses of the clinic. We do not have enough pledged gifts to pay for operating our clinic but we continue to expand our services and trust that people like you will help, and you do. You can raise funds for new staff salaries: » 1 year, full-time, for 2 new nurses: $11,000 each = annual salary, social security, and insurance You can help us raise funds for building materials needed for a third clinic building and for renovating the first two buildings to create more space. Estimated cost: $80,000. You can come and volunteer. Help us learn more and see patients. We can use PAs, nurses, gynecologists, doctors, dentists, and hy-gienists.

You can collect medicines and equipment and supplies for the clinic. We are able to give more comprehensive care with these donations. See our website for needs: g http://jhc-cdca.org/projects/health/medical-care/medical-supply-needs/ http://jhc-cdca.org/projects/health/dental-care/dental-supply-needs/

· Large education / health training room

· Kitchen for nutrition demonstration

· Radiology area: X-ray, de-veloping, ultrasound - with thick walls & lead-lined door & control area

· Health Promoter office · Patient observation room · Staff break room · Covered laundry area for rainy season

· Bathrooms and more

Jubilee House Community, Inc. Email: jhc@jhc-cdca.org

For More Information: www.jhc-cdca.org

Clínica Nueva Vida means New Life Clinic. This clinic was established 17 years ago in response to a refugee resettlement program after Hurricane Mitch hit Nicaragua and Hondu-ras. The barrio of 12,000 people was named Nueva Vida. It is filled with poor families. Our clinic reaches those in the barrio and outside into the city of Ciudad Sandino and surrounding rural commu-nities. Our programs and services include:

We have on staff a Health Promoter who organizes nearly 40 lay health promoters to provide first aid kits and nebulizers from many of their homes. They provide education for the community and identify needs that the

community wishes to have addressed. We have support groups for: 1st time preg-nant mothers; mothers with infants; mothers with toddlers; preteen/teenage girls (to prevent teen pregnancy); parents with asthmatic children; patients with chronic conditions; and a boys’ group.

Exams are provided by both Nicaraguan doctors and international volunteer medical providers. We keep charts on 22,000 patients. In addition to acute care we provide services to patients with chronic condi-tions (e.g. hypertension, asthma, diabetes, etc.) which

involve monthly ap-pointments with doctors, medications, educational meetings and support groups.

We have a program that reaches the elderly who can-not come to the clinic on their own. We also have a program where new mothers and their infants are accom-panied by clinic staff and volunteer promoters through their pregnancy, birthing classes, and the first year of

the child’s life (weighing, measuring, and monitoring the infants). 73% of our pediatri-cian’s patients are 5 years old or younger. Our nurse does home visits to the el-derly, infants, and patients at risk.

Many of our patients live with chronic pain, so we have on staff an orthopedist who comes three mornings a week to treat patients for muscular-skeletal pain.

Dental care, both preventive as well as restorative, is provided to patients through a full-time staff of den-tist, hygienist, and assistant, with help from volunteer

dental professionals. More than half of their patients are from feed-ing centers in Nueva Vida. Our goal is to clean and restore the teeth of each child from the feeding centers twice a year, and do fluoride treatments on all the children in the preschools.

Through a part-time counselor we also pro-vide therapy for adults, children, and families.

Lastly, we provide eye exams and glasses one morning a week.

Lab tests are done by our part-time technician and by an out-side pathologist. After receiv-ing the results, our medical personnel write prescriptions, which our pharmacy fills.

In 2015 we gave out more than $121,500 of donated and purchased medi-cines & supplies. We treat acute cases, and stabilize and maintain our patients with chronic conditions. We provide free family planning and teach courses on sexual health. We also have...

A full-time radiol-ogist is on staff, and provides much needed ultrasounds in Ciudad Sandino, a city with a popu-lation around 180,000. He also provides EKG services and echocardiograms.

Our part-time ob/gyn provides prenatal care, PAPs, proce-dures if there is an irregular PAP, etc. She also stresses family planning, especially now that the Zika vi-rus is in Nicaragua (the virus causes seri-ous birth defects).

Our doctors write orders for lab tests that are ex-amined in our own