American Women's Hospitals Service

Supported Clinics

American Medical Women's Hospital Service, AWHS, supports the following clinics annually:

• Bread for the City and Zacchaeus Free Medical Clinic
• Dayspring Family Health Center (supports 3 clinics)
• Dover Community Clinic
• Harbor Free Clinic
• HealthCare Network
• HBS Foundation- Hopital Bon Samaritain
• Marian Clinic
• South African Development Fund
• Clinic Nepal
• Engeye Clinic
• Vine Trust
  

Read the most recent AWHS update from Dr. Barlow Ramsay, Co-Chair of AWHS.

Recent News About Support Clinics

Marian Clinic Thanks AMWA Members for Generous Donations

Letter to Dr. Chin thanking AMWA

Note from Ruth Maus, Marian Clinic

I sent out a small email in September asking for friends' help in securing personal hygiene supplies to give to our patients who have none. We have quite a small distribution list of almost all local residents, so imagine my surprise when over the next week I began receiving phone calls from far-away cities inquiring how to get these donated toiletry supplies to us. It turns out that one of those on our email list is The American Medical Women's Association in Philadelphia, an organization that gives us a small grant every year. Unbeknownst to me, the AMWA re-sent my email to their national distribution list!

Since then we have received many generous boxes of the personal hygiene supplies - far more than we ever dreamed. All are being put to good use with our medical and dental patients, grouped into kits that we call "blessing bags" and distributed for free. To our kind and generous friends in Topeka, including individuals, churches, hospital employees, government agency employees, and others, thank you so much for your ongoing support, without which we could not continue to operate. To our new friends in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Provo, and especially to the AMWA, thank you for opening your hearts to strangers in the Midwest. Together ALL of these gifts benefit and bless those who truly need them.

We are a faith-based organization; we believe this is a miracle. It was as if my original email was a packet of seeds that got scattered all over the country to take root in the hearts of those who are compassionate. God bless you all. God bless you all.

Read the article about the donations from the Topeka Capital Journal here.

Mobile Health Clinic Crosses the Jungle to Madi, Chitwan

By Jackie Taylor

AWHS at Work- Relief Efforts in Haiti
By Anne Barlow Ramsay and Eliza Chin, AWHS Co-Chairs

Hopital Bon Samaritain in Limbe, Haiti  is a long-standing beneficiary of funds from AWHS (American Women's Hospitals Service).  This facility was founded in an unlikely way by Dr. William Hodges, an archeologist, who came to do research inLimbe back in  1950.  His wife, Joanna, had planned for the couple to return to the United States after his research was completed.  But when they reached Limbe, they were horrified by the lack of basic medical care that existed in Limbe.  So the vision of a hospital was born.  With  support and help from others, including the Baptist Church, this vision eventually became a reality..  The U.S. headquarters are in Lake Worth, Florida, headed up by their son, Paul Hodges.   Their grandson is currently in Haiti, working at Hopital Bon Samaritain.

When we first heard of the earthquake in Haiti, we immediately contacted Hopital Bon Samaritain.  70 miles north of the epicenter of the quake, they felt heavy shaking but the hospital buildings designed by the late William Hodges were well built and no physical damage was seen.  The emotional toll, however, has been devastating.  Because life in Haiti is so migrational with most people living in the rural areas and then traveling to Port au Prince for work or school, almost everyone at Hopital Bon Samaritain has lost a loved one in the earthquake.  The sense of loss is unspeakable. 

 AWHS has responded with additional funds sent to HBS along with a call for AMWA members to donate directly to HBS to help with the relief efforts.  Already, they have been treating earthquake victims who have managed to return back to their rural homes and helping with the American Red Cross efforts to cross match blood.  HBS was expecting imminent approval as a surgical site to handle overflow cases from Port au Prince. 

 We will continue our support of HBS over the long term, recognizing that the recovery in Haiti will take place over many months and perhaps years.  AWHS was founded to provide humanitarian relief, and today, 93 years later, we are still fulfilling that mission.

DONATE NOW- Hopital Bon Samaritain, Limbe, Haiti
Please donate now to help support our clinics around the world.  One of our clinics, located in Limbe, Haiti, will need our funds today and for years to come to help support those injured by January's earthquake.  Your support of the American Women's Hospital Service allows for us to continue to send annual contributions for years to come.