[caption id="attachment_2023" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Photo by Omar Vega"][/caption] By Jennifer Browning Project Medishare's prosthetic technician in training, Wilfred Messine, works with people like him everyday. An amputee patient himself, when Wilfred was fitted with his prosthetic limb in April, we immediately began running and kicking a soccer...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Fritz & Franz Bierhaus will be hosting a free performance by South Florida’s Nightscape on Saturday, September 25 between 8 p.m.-midnight as part of Project Medishare’s MISSION: HAITI. The evening will recognize the more than 7000 Project Medishare volunteers who rushed to Haiti’s aid...
Read More[caption id="attachment_2028" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare staff and volunteer doctors consult with doctors at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine about a critical care patient admitted recently."][/caption] By Jennifer Browning Last week Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare (HBMPM) volunteers participated in a...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Magdala, 22, hoists herself onto the examining table so that Project Medishare’s certified prosthetic orthotist (CPO) Davor Krchelich can scan her leg where her new prosthetic limb will be placed. She watches quietly as the laser scans across her knee tissue and curiously...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Project Medishare's future is mapped out in the most recent issue of the University of Miami's Medicine. The magazine's special edition focuses on how the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine and its partnering organizations like Project Medishare and the UM Global...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning U.S. Senator Bill Nelson vowed, during a visit to the Miami's Ryder Trauma Center last week, to continue his efforts to secure funds for the Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare, a critical care and rehabilitation hospital, operated by Project Medishare and the...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Last night Project Medishare co-founder and president, Dr. Barth Green, received the Florida Association of Nonprofit Organization's (FANO) Lawton's Heart Humanitarian Award for his lifetime devotion to humanitarian causes. The award was presented by the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine's Dean Pascal...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning While Haiti's only critical and trauma care facility, Hospital Bernard Mevs Project Medishare, is now operating with a predominantly Haitian staff, we are still accommodating up to 43 volunteers each week. Starting in October, volunteers are required to pay a $300 tax-deductible fee to...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Kim Barnard volunteered at Hospital Bernard Mevs in June, since then she has joined fellow volunteers in raising money to assist Project Medishare in raising funds to keep the only critical care hospital in Haiti open for business. Musician friends of hers from Kickstart,...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning On May 22, the City of Miami Beach hosted Rock for Haiti which raised money to outfit and repair two surplus emergency medical vehicles which the Miami Beach Mayor and Commission donated to Bernard Mevs Project Medishare Hospital in Port-au-Prince. The ambulances are now...
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