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The Medical Program
Keep up with our General Surgery Team serving in Guatemala City February 6-14 with The Shalom Foundation at
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital Blog
The Medical Program serves children from across Guatemala, changing their lives forever. Through The Moore Center for Children's Health in Zone 1 of Guatemala City, The Shalom Foundation will provide a modern medical facility to serve as home base for each Shalom visiting Medical Team.
Shalom’s Medical Program addresses the desperate medical and health needs of poor children in Guatemala. The lives of these children are improved through surgical treatment, appropriate follow-up care, dental care, optical clinics, wellness clinics and good health education. Our Medical Teams provide treatment that is financially and socially out of reach for acutely poor children.
Collaboration with medical organizations in both the United States and Guatemala is key to the success of the Medical Program. Since 2005, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has provided valuable resources and support designating The Shalom Foundation as their International Surgical Partner. Specialty Surgical Teams from Children’s Hospital have travelled with Shalom Foundation providing life-changing procedures for children who would otherwise go untreated.
Medical Teams supported by Children’s Hospitals and other recognized medical organizations across the United States are invited to work with The Shalom Foundation to serve these needy children.
Shalom is developing relationships with other organizations whose goals are similar. These organizations include children's hospitals in the United States, members of the medical community, humanitarian aid agencies, non-profits, universities and other NGOs both in the US and Guatemala.
The Objectives of the Medical Program are:
- Provide surgical, medical and dental specialty teams to operate in Guatemala
- Build, equip and maintain The Moore Center for Children’s Health
- Create sustainable programs to provide health care service
- Educate the community on how to better care for themselves
- Share technology and information as it relates to advancements in medical treatments, surgical procedures, medicines and education
- Provide elective international rotations for pediatric residents and nurses from the U.S.
Benefits:
- Needy children are identified, diagnosed and treated for complicated medical conditions and traumatic injuries that are typically out of reach for them financially and socially
- Medical team members reap great personal rewards through helping these children and improving the medical care in Guatemala for all people
- Families of treated children are ministered to through missions volunteers and from the local church to ensure they hear the Gospel
If you would like to learn more about the Medical Program or participate in the funding of this facility, please contact us. We want to hear from you!
Click here to learn about the experiences of medical team members in our Past Surgery Trips and Current Surgery Trips.
Current Surgical Trips
Pediatric General Surgery Trip
Pediatric Surgical Mission Trip
Past Surgical Trips
ENT Surgery Trip
September 27-October 5, 2008
Pediatric ENT / Plastics Surgery Trip
December 8-16, 2007
Pediatric ENT / Plastics Surgery Trip
November 4-12, 2006
Pediatric ENT / Plastics Surgery Trip
February 4-12, 2006
Joseline Vasquez's Medical Care
The Shalom Foundation Medical Program has brought two-year-old Joseline Vasquez to Nashville for treatment at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. Joseline was first seen by The Shalom surgery team in Guatemala City. Dr. Steven Goudy led the Children's Hospital surgery team as they performed surgery in Nashville on July 8, 2008, to remove the mass on her neck. Following her successful treatment, Joseline and her mother, Veronica, returned home with the ENT Surgery Team from Vanderbilt Children's Hospital on Saturday, September 27, 2008. Click here to see photos of Josie. Click here to view the blog about Josie's visit.
If you would like to learn more about the Medical Program or participate in the funding of this facility, please contact us. We want to hear from you!
Read on to learn about past medical trips and the experiences of Medical Team Members:
Local Doctors Serve Globally Treating Children in Guatemala, October 2008
View Joseline's Surgery Trip Blog, Summer 2008
Personal Reflections from Belmont University's Physical Therapy Mission Team Members, April 2008
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital Joins Initiative to Help Children in Guatemala, October 2007
My First International Medical Trip, by William Lowrance, M.D., May 2006
