Supported Clinics
In July, 1915, at the second annual meeting of the Medical Women's National Association (MWNA, later to become the American Medical Women's Association - AMWA) 300 women physicians attended a lecture presented by Dr. Rosalie Morton who illustrated the work of women physicians in World War 1. It was the norm in the United States, as in the allied countries, to deny medical women any active role in the war effort. Dr. Morton's lecture sparked a flame which would see the birth of the American Women's Hospitals Committee. The name was adapted from the Scottish Women's Hospitals, a successful organization working with military sick and wounded in France. The Committee had a two-fold mission at that time - the relief of suffering through medical care and the advancement of women in the medical profession. Today, AWHS continues to support clinics all over the world and supports medical students’ travels overseas to aide in the medical assistance of underserved populations.
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Zufall Health Center (formerly Dover Free Clinic)
Zufall Health Center is the medical and dental home for northwestern New Jersey’s underserved founded by Dr. Robert Zufall and his wife. As a fully licensed Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), it provides high-quality, affordable medical and dental care to residents of Morris, Sussex, Hunterdon, and Warren counties. For more information, visit www.zufallhealth.org.
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Bread for the City and Zacchaeus Free Medical Clinic
Bread for the City provides vulnerable residents of Washington, DC, with comprehensive services, including food, clothing, medical care, and legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect. They promote the mutual collaboration of clients, volunteers, donors, staff, and other community partners to alleviate the suffering caused by poverty and to rectify the conditions that perpetuate it. AWHS supports Bread for the City / Zacchaeus Free Medical Clinic with $850/quarter
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Clinic Nepal Inc.
Founded for the relief of poverty, sickness and distress, the Friendship Clinic Nepal supports nearly 50,000 villagers in the area around Meghauli, Chitwan, Nepal. AWHS supports Clinic Nepal with $900/quarter to cover the salary of a nurse midwife who covers eight villages on her bicycle doing health education as well as caring for pregnant and in labor women.
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Dayspring Family Health Center
Dayspring Family Health Center is a not-for-profit community health center founded in 1976 to provide quality healthcare including obstetrics in the beautiful Appalachian region of Eastern Tennessee and Kentucky. AWHS supports the three clinics in Dayspring Family Health Center with $875/quarter to help cover the cost of mammograms.
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Engeye Clinic
Founded by AMWA member, Dr. Stephanie Van Dyke, Engeye is a 501(c)3 non-profit that works to improve the lives of Ugandans through its affordable health clinic in Ddegeya Village, Uganda. Engeye also operates a scholarship program to empower the next generation of Ugandans. Founded in 2006, the clinic now sees approximately 15,000 patients per year. AWHS supports Engeye with $660/quarter to help support the salary of the local physician.
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Harbor Free Clinic
Located in San Pedro, California, Harbor Community Clinic provides free medical care to people who do not have access to any other medical care. The majority of their patients are the working poor- - people who are employed but whose employment does not provide medical insurance. AWHS supports Harbor Free Clinic with $600/quarter.
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HBS Foundation, Inc.
Hôpital Bon Samaritain (HBS) is a full service hospital with outreach programs in the river valley of Limbé, Haiti. Since 1953, Hôpital Bon Samaritain has provided health care services for the greater population of the Limbé Valley located in the Département du Nord. AWHS supports Hôpital Bon Samaritain with $850/quarter.
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Health Care Network, Inc.
Health Care Network, Inc. is a non-profit agency providing free or low cost health care to residents of Racine County in Wisconsin who are medically uninsured and have a limited income. Services are provided at the Health Care Network office and throughout the County by health care professionals who volunteer their time, offices and skills. AMWA donates $600/quarter to Health Care Network, Inc.
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Marian Clinic
The Marian Clinic was founded in 1988 by Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth in Topeka, Kansas in response to the need for medical care for the uninsured. There are 250 health care professionals who volunteer their services in addition to the paid medical and dental staff. The Clinic also helps medical patients obtain nearly $500,000 of free pharmaceuticals each year. AWHS supports the Marian Clinic with $600/quarter.
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The Vine Trust
The Vine Trust runs the Amazon Hope Project, which provides a health service for around 100,000 patients per year to the remote communities on the Amazon River in South America, many of which have little or no access to healthcare. Because many of these Amazonian communities are inaccessible by road, the Amazon Hope medical ships travel up and down the river to provide medical and dental care. AWHS supports the salary of a nurse-translator who runs the medical side of the boat and translates for the US- UK docs who come for short periods of time - $1,250/quarter.
