OUR MISSION
Our Mission
Our vision is to help achieve autonomous sustainable improvement for our clients and their patients.
EDUCATE
HRD Corps provides free direct training of clinicians, residents, nurses and imaging technologists. Education includes didactic lectures, webinars, as well as hands on training with the equipment that has been donated.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
We help build clinical services for hospitals caring for underserved populations free of charge. This can include establishing guidelines for ultrasound imaging, CT scans or helping to develop a breast cancer-screening program. Likewise, we help build indigenous training programs such as a radiology technologist schools.
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
HRD Corps donates imaging equipment such as ultrasound machines, CT scanners, X-Ray and Mammography equipment as well as donations of the engineering and repair services to maintain all of the equipment. HRD Corps evaluates the full aspect of needs and individual obstacles to range from educating communities of their own healthcare, medical imaging and surgical follow-ups.
Our Core Services
EDUCATION
HRD Corps provides free direct training of clinicians, residents, nurses and imaging technologists. Education includes didactic lectures, webinars, as well as hands on training with the equipment that has been donated.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
We help build clinical services for hospitals caring for underserved populations free of charge. This can include establishing guidelines for ultrasound imaging, CT scans or helping to develop a breast cancer-screening program. Likewise, we help build indigenous training programs such as a radiology technologist schools.
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT
HRD Corps donates imaging equipment such as ultrasound machines, CT scanners, X-Ray and Mammography equipment as well as donations of the engineering and repair services to maintain all of the equipment. HRD Corps evaluates the full aspect of needs and individual obstacles to range from educating communities of their own healthcare, medical imaging and surgical follow-ups.
Where and
Who We Help
HAITI
HRD Corps is committed to numerous projects across Haiti. Currently we are working with eleven hospitals and two universities. The projects range from training seminars which include lectures as well as hands on training with imaging equipment to connecting radiology residents with our other charity hospital partners. After an initial assessment of the specific needs, HRD Corp donates equipment and provides training with the goal of each project to be run independently by local physicians and health care workers. The largest donation in Haiti is ultrasound machines, Ultrasound has the highest impact of imaging needs for a low income country.
Thus far HRD Corps has donated twelve ultrasound systems across Haiti. Equally important, we provide the repairs and service engineering support to assure our equipment remains operational. HRD Corp has a broad vision to convert Haitian radiology to a digital imaging system which will overall help reduce cost as well as the great advantage to securely share images for teaching, research and clinical consultation. With the goal of digital conversion this will have direct impact to the people of Haiti as their prior imaging can be viewed and used for comparisons throughout any part of Haiti. HRD Corp has successfully installed two PACS systems in Haitian hospitals.
BOLIVIA
We are excited to be a part of improving women’s health care in Bolivia by promoting early detection of breast cancer. Currently, we have a team assisting with educating and empowering women to do self-breast exams and get screening mammography. HRD Corp is working with a local Bolivian hospital to create a mobile mammography/ breast ultrasound program. With this mobile unit, women in rural parts of Bolivia will have the opportunity to have access to affordable mammograms and breast ultrasounds. The goal is early detection to improve the outcome for each patient. With the support of community members as well as physicians ranging from general practitioners, surgeons and oncologists we have a hope and vision that breast mammography screenings, ultrasounds, biopsies and chemotherapy/radiation treatments can be accessible to all women in Bolivia.
NICARAGUA
Our work in Nicaragua was delayed by the internal conflict which erupted across Nicaragua in April 2018 and then further delayed by the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic.
We met with the leadership of Nicaragua Global Health Project in Los Angeles in September 2019 to develop a plan for restarting our radiology development projects. Transport and customs clearance has been prepared by NGHP. HRD Corps is now resuming our vendor processes to deploy refurbished Sequoia ultrasound machines to District hospitals. Our initial client site will be in Rivas which will receive 4 Sequoia ultrasounds. This will serve as our pilot engagement site.
We are looking forward to working with NGHP and our colleagues at UCLA to make lasting positive impact to healthcare in Nicaragua.GHANA
HRD Corps donates imaging equipment such as ultrasound machines, CT scanners, X-Ray and Mammography equipment as well as donations of the engineering and repair services to maintain all of the equipment. HRD Corps evaluates the full aspect of needs and individual obstacles to range from educating communities of their own healthcare, medical imaging and surgical follow-ups.
GHANA
We have initiated outreach to hospitals in the cities of Accra and Akuse to engage in our expanding Sequoia donation and training program.
MALAWI
We have completed an assessment tour of 5 CCAP hospitals across Malawi in May 2022. We have started a 3 phase improvement and capacity improvement project to bring solar electric power, X-ray, Ultrasound and radiology computer PACS digital integration and storage to all 5 hospitals. Donations have already commenced with a VistaScan handheld ultrasound machine given to the general surgery team at the CCAP flagship hospital in Nkhoma.