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The Response of Academic Medical Centers to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Experience
Providing much-needed medical care to impacted Haitians, lack of infrastructure, lack of medical equipment/medications
Who- Mount Sinai response to the earthquake in 2010, partnered with MediShare
What- The day after disaster struck, Medishare opened up a tent hospital, which they have been operating in some form ever since the earthquake. The tent hospital relied entirely on volunteer staff who committed to participate in week-long service missions. These volunteers rotated on overlapping weekly schedules to ensure continuity. The Medishare hospital provided a hospital-based relief effort that was familiar to most of the Mount Sinai volunteers who had considerable experience with hospital-based care.
When- immediately after the initial disaster
How- volunteer medical students, doctors, and other volunteers to work at the hospital
What- The day after disaster struck, Medishare opened up a tent hospital, which they have been operating in some form ever since the earthquake. The tent hospital relied entirely on volunteer staff who committed to participate in week-long service missions. These volunteers rotated on overlapping weekly schedules to ensure continuity. The Medishare hospital provided a hospital-based relief effort that was familiar to most of the Mount Sinai volunteers who had considerable experience with hospital-based care.
When- immediately after the initial disaster
How- volunteer medical students, doctors, and other volunteers to work at the hospital
- Solidarity staffing (eg deployments to/from other jurisdictions)
- Community Health Workers
- Students
- Volunteers
Haiti after the 2010 earthquake
- Critical Care
- Emergency Medical Services
- Remote
Medical knowledge and supplies from Mount Sinai, knowledge of the area/culture, continuous streams of volunteers
Research Intervention - outcome data available
Ripp, J. A., Koncicki, H., Bork, J., & Asgary, R. (2012). The Response of Academic Medical Centers to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Experience. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 86(1), 32–35.
Jonathan A. Ripp
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Caribbean, Central, Latin & South America
USA