Dr. Seaman – Hope Extended
We have our first team of four – 1 MD, 2 PA’s and 1 RN – leaving for Haiti this Friday, first going to Santo Domingo where they will join another group and share a van to Haiti. We appreciate the tremendous outpouring of encouragement, prayer and gifts. You are such a blessing to us and will help us bring some hope to one of the darkest places on earth.Our second team will leave sometime next week. I expect to go on this team. One of my goals is to try and discover a reliable route in and out of Haiti that subsequent teams can take. Please continue to pray for:No missed connections for our...
Read MoreMerry Christmas!
Greetings from the Morehouses! We deeply appreciate all your support and look forward to serving together with you in the coming year. Click here to read our holiday letter. Click here to read the December edition of the His Branches Grapevine.
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The MCCF Spring Breakfast will be held on Saturday morning, May 2, from 9-11 am at the Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue.Topic: Panel on Medical MarriageDr. Tom and Vicki Ball, Dr. Cathy and Alan Goodfellow, and Drs. David and Mary Kay Ness will be sharing with us and responding to questions about how they’ve been have been able to mix medicine and marriage in their households. Please come and bring your spouse or significant other. Feel free to invite any friends or colleagues who might be interested, too!Please mark your calendars and RSVP using our Response page. Be sure to note...
Read MorePrimary Care Shortage
When Dr. Waseem Ghazoly died unexpectedly at age 45, his three physician colleagues in Pittsford expected to cover his 1,800 patients only temporarily.But the office hasn’t been able to recruit a replacement because of an ongoing shortage of primary care physicians. Seventeen months after Ghazoly’s fatal heart attack, his office and exam rooms remain empty at Elmwood Medical Associates.The full practice still hopes to fill the position but has no solution in sight, said Dr. Stephen Meloni.Click here to read the full article in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.
Read MorePrayer for Bongolo Hospital
From Deb Walker, head of PediatricsPLEASE PRAY FOR BONGOLO HOSPITALWe are getting hit very hard because of the government hospital worker’s strike that is already a month old (since Jan.12). It is just now getting to the unbearable stage at our hospital. Maternity is up 2.5 times the normal volume and outpatients have doubled. Almost all hospital beds are full. If this rate continues very long, we will run out of certain medications and tests like HIV tests before our next order can arrive. People are getting angry at having to wait because of consultation and lab overload or when we...
Read MoreGlory to God in the Highest!
Merry Christmas from the Morehouses!We deeply appreciate all your support and look forward to serving together with you in the coming year.Click here to read our holiday letter.
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