MEDICAL CARE PROGRAMS
Our medical programs offer preventive care, clinics, and inpatient support, addressing critical health needs.
HTCF's Medical Care Programs
For more than three decades, Health Through Communications Foundation (HTCF) has supported medical care for underserved communities in Haiti and beyond. Our focus is on providing compassionate, dignified care in places where people would otherwise have little or no access to services.
We believe that true medical care includes body, mind, and spirit. Illness is not only about lab results or symptoms; it is also about stress, trauma, relationships, and the conditions in which people live. Our programs aim to address all of these dimensions, as much as local resources allow.
La Vallée de Jacmel: A Lifeline for an Entire Region
At the heart of our medical work is a nonprofit hospital in La Vallée de Jacmel, in the southeast of Haiti. For many families, this hospital is the only place where they can receive care.
With limited equipment and supplies, the hospital still manages to provide basic inpatient and outpatient services, with a strong emphasis on women’s health, children’s health, and community education.
For years, we have:
- • Helped keep the hospital open and functioning
- • Supported staff with training and guidance
- • Encouraged a holistic view of patients, looking beyond symptoms to root causes such as malnutrition, chronic stress, and unsafe living conditions
The hospital is more than a building; it is a symbol of hope for the thousands of people who depend on it.
Rebuilding Dignity: Restrooms and Water for the Hospital
In 2010, the earthquake that devastated much of Haiti also badly damaged the hospital’s restrooms. The structures partially collapsed and were never properly rebuilt. Since then, the hospital has had to function without safe, adequate restrooms or reliable running water.
Over the years, we have used personal funds and small donations to begin rebuilding the restrooms, but the project is still incomplete. There is still no functioning septic system and no reliable water supply connected to the facility.
We estimate that we need approximately $50,000 to:
- • Finish rebuilding safe, durable restrooms for patients, families, and staff
- • Construct and connect a proper septic system
- • Secure a reliable water source and plumbing so that running water is available for hygiene and infection control
Without these basics, it is difficult for the hospital to maintain the level of cleanliness and dignity that patients deserve.
Photo Story: Rebuilding the Hospital Restrooms
2010: The hospital’s restrooms collapse after the earthquake.
Photos of construction work
Your support can help us finish this essential project so patients and staff can have safe, dignified restrooms and running water.
Beyond the Walls: Community-Based Health and Education
Medical care in Haiti cannot stop at the hospital door. Many of the conditions that bring people to the hospital—malnutrition, infections, complications of pregnancy, uncontrolled chronic diseases—are deeply linked to poverty, lack of education, and trauma.
That is why our medical work also includes:
Community health education through talks, small groups, and partnerships with schools and churches. Integrating simple mind–body–spirit tools, such as the Dr. Carolle Instant Antidistress Method (DCIAM), to help people cope with stress, fear, and loss.
Teaching families how to prevent illness when possible, with basic hygiene, nutrition, and emotional support.
Our goal is not only to treat disease, but to help people understand their bodies, reduce fear, and participate in their own healing.
Caring for Haitian Immigrants and Underserved Communities
The same spirit that guides our work in Haiti also guides our work with Haitian immigrants and underserved communities in San Diego and elsewhere.
In San Diego, Dr. Carolle:
- • Provides volunteer trauma-healing sessions for Haitian immigrants through a monthly community program Uses her mind–body–spirit approach to help individuals deal with grief, displacement, and stress, often preventing unnecessary medical expenses
- • Shares practical tools that participants can then use with their families and communities
- • In this way, the medical expertise and holistic tools developed through HTCF travel across borders, from La Vallée de Jacmel to San Diego and the Haitian diaspora.
How You Can Help
Your support for our medical work can:
- • Keep the hospital in La Vallée de Jacmel open and functioning
- • Finish the construction of the hospital restrooms, install a working septic system, and bring running water to patients and staff
- • Strengthen community health education and mind–body–spirit programs
- • Support trauma-healing and health support for Haitian immigrants in the United States
Every contribution, no matter the size, helps restore dignity and bring real, practical medical care to people who need it most.