The Faces of International Hospital for Children

View this short video to learn about International Hospital for Children and to discover what motivates the staff members that support it. 

 “I created this video as a culminating project for my summer research with the University of Richmond,” said Jenna Garber, IHC intern. “ I wanted to see how my research of global justice models and world health care translated to the IHC office: What inequalities is IHC addressing?  And what personally motivates the IHC staff to do the work they do?”

IHC is competing in an online challenge!

The countdown has begun! IHC has less than ten days to raise $4,000 from 50 donors to earn a permanent spot on GlobalGiving.com. We are over halfway to our goal, but we need your help to meet it! Please consider making a donation by September 18 on Global Giving: http://www.globalgiving.com/3405

Every donation helps! A donation of $10 will enable IHC to reach a new network of friends. It will also help fund IHC’s next orthopedic mission to the Caribbean. This fall, we hope to reach an estimated 130 youth with life-enhancing care.  Without this help, these children may remain immobile–unable to walk to school, stand without help, or live a normal life. These are children like 12-year-old Zenel who was healed on a past mission trip. She was born severely bowlegged and needed surgery in order to walk. Thanks to IHC, Zenel has hopes for a normal life, free of suffering.

Thank you in advance for your help,    

Susan Rickman, IHC President

IHC Dove Necklace…

International Hospital for Children invites you to help us 

 

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Wear the Dove

Jewelry designer Janet Gregg has created this striking dove pendant for IHC as a visible reminder of hope and healing. Your purchase of a gold or silver plated necklace will help save lives. Wear the necklace to proudly show your support for IHC, or present it as a meaningful gift to friends and loved ones. To place an order, please e-mail jcurtis@healachild.org or call 804-282-8830.  Available in gold plated ($150) or silver plated ($125). Acutal size is 1.5 x2 inches. All profits from sales will benefit International Hospital for Children.

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IHC 2008 Video

IHC Gives New Meaning to the Phrase “A Hospital Without Walls”

IHC has long considered itself “A Hospital without Walls”—a means of linking physicians, surgeons, and nurses around the world to heal critically ill children.   

Recently, this phrase acquired an even deeper meaning.

 

 

A few months ago a generous contribution from Millenium Bank in the Caribbean allowed IHC to purchase a telemedicine system in St. Vincent, a revolutionary means of connecting physicians in two locations to deliver state-of-the-art medical care.  Telemedicine uses high-definition video cameras and conferencing technology to transmit images with extraordinary clarity.  It opens numerous doors for IHC to provide physician and nurse training, patient evaluation, physician consultations, and post-op follow up care in this tiny island nation with so much need for pediatric critical care.

 

Last week, we brought telemedicine to its full potential when two Richmond pediatric general surgeons, Dr. David Lanning and Dr. Frank Margaron, led a surgery in St. Vincent from IHC headquarters.  The patient was a six-day-old baby, born with an intestinal abnormality.  Without surgical intervention, she was sure to die.  Knowing this tiny baby had no other recourse, St. Vincent’s general surgeon agreed to attempt the operation with IHC’s volunteer pediatric surgeons on the other end through the entire two and a half hour procedure. 

 

The ability to use telemedicine in a surgical capacity gives a chance to so many precious children in St. Vincent who can’t be reached by our visiting teams in time.  With telemedicine in place, we never really leave the countries or the children we help.  What an incredible opportunity. 

 

To learn more about IHC visit our website, www.healachild.org.

 

Gratefully,

Susan Rickman