Medical Missions

Opportunities

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Local Opportunities
Regional Opportunities
International Opportunities

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Haven for Hope (www.havenforhope.org)
Bob Rice, rrice3@satx.rr.com

Haven for Hope is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of homeless people in San Antonio area by providing a wide array of necessary social services in a convenient central location. Its mission is to help reduce homelessness in the San Antonio area by providing homeless people the resources, skills, and assistance necessary to become self-sufficient in a manner that's efficient and cost-effective.

Health services offered and opportunities for service:

  • Medical clinic
  • Dental clinic
  • Vision clinic
  • Podiatry clinic
  • Mental health and substance abuse treatment clinic
  • Immunizations and other preventative healthcare

I Care San Antonio www.icare-sa.org
I Care San Antonio (ICSA), a 501 (c) (3) non-profit Christian organization that has provided dilated eye exams, refractions and glasses, medical and surgical eye care for indigent patients since its founding in 1992. Since then, ICSA has organized and participated in over 40 medical missions to Mexico.

Since its founding, ICSA has held monthly Caring Clinics providing services to indigent adults and children in San Antonio. ICSA was heavily involved in organizing and providing eye care to the evacuees from hurricane Katrina who stayed in San Antonio shelters providing eye care for 3,144 people. Our services are provided by volunteer eye doctors (ophthalmologists and optometrists), nurses, technicians, opticians, and general helpers. In early 2009, ICSA moved our clinic to the Haven for Hope, a new state-of-the-art transitional center for the homeless located downtown, to provide services to its clients and to expand our services to the community's indigent. We partner with Prevent Blindness Texas who screen Haven for Hope members for eye disease and provide scheduling services. The move to the Vision Center at Haven for Hope has tripled the size of our clinic and we have acquired, through generous grants and donations, diagnostic and treatment equipment which will give the community a state of the art eye clinic.

The clinic draws patients from throughout San Antonio and Bexar County. ICSA serves the needs of the medically vulnerable, including the homeless and undocumented aliens. We also see many of the "working poor" who have no health insurance and lack the funds to pay for glasses, co-pays and screening exams. We also serve the elderly who have Medicare but do not have sufficient funds to purchase eye glasses.

Since 1992, ICSA has provided 16,299 exams, 794 surgeries, and dispensed 13,309 glasses to our patients. We currently hold 10 half-day clinics a month with 15 doctors working in our clinics who served 1430 patients in 2008.

We need volunteer eye doctors, opticians, and eye technicians to serve in our clinics, and general volunteers to work in: in-take, computer input, screenings, and work-ups.

For information or to volunteer, please contact Casandra Garcia at the Vision Center at Haven for Hope: (210) 220-2360 or CGarcia@AlamoVision.org.

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CMDA - Christian Medical Dental Association (www.cmda.org/sanantonio)
Scott Phillips, scottcmda@satx.rr.com

CMDA - Christian Medical and Dental Association - The Christian Medical & Dental Association exists to motivate, educate, and equip Christian physicians and dentists to glorify God by:

  • Living out the character of Christ in their homes, practices, communities, and around the world;
  • Pursuing professional competence and Christ-like compassion in their daily work;
  • Influencing their families, colleagues, and patients toward a right relationship with Jesus Christ;
  • Advancing biblical principles in bioethics and health to the Church and society.

MMI - Medical Ministry International (www.mmint.org)
Fred & Kate Campbell, fredkate@gvtc.com

MMI is an opportunity to serve Jesus Christ by providing spiritual and physical health care in this world of need. They are committed to meet the need for medical care among the world's poor with lasting solutions through excellence in medicine, patient care, and health education. This is done by mobilizing volunteers on one or two-week medical projects and by establishing and equipping permanent medical centers.

 

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Jamaica, Medical Trip:
November 6-13, 2010
Craig Moyer, cmoyer@cbcmail.org or (210) 477-1744