Women's Health & Birth Center

Women’s Health & Birth Center

January 2023 Grand Opening-New Women’s Health & Birth Cntr

As of January 2023, SUH has expanded our medical campus by completing construction of a midwifery facility where women in Haiti can come to give birth, attended by trained professional Haitian Midwives. At this health center, they also receive prenatal & postpartum care, family planning & HIV/STD screening. Our comprehensive reproductive health "continuum of care" also includes cervical cancer screening and treatment for the highest-incidence cancer in Haitian women, as well as other gynecological care. Last year, we also added Ultrasound capabilities and Electronic Medical Records. Soaring's Board of Directors includes a nurse practitioner who is guiding the development of our midwifery model for the new Women’s Center.

Our construction partner has been Building Goodness Foundation of Charlottesville, Va., a nonprofit with many years of experience building facilities in developing countries. SUH and BGF utilized Haitian construction management and local Haitian labor, enabling completion of this new building amidst both the Covid shutdown and violent unrest in Haiti. Our empowerment of Haitian leadership has been nowhere more evident than the accomplishment of this future vision, which would have been delayed for years had we not taken this route and utilized our strong relationships both with partners in the U.S. and the effective collaboration among Haitians in-country who were able to work successfully together with resources and guidance provided through US partnerships also working together.