Community Empowerment, NFP

Our mission is to save lives and protect health by providing access to quality, community-owned, sustainable health care including primary care, surgical care, and public health in chronically underserved and under-resourced communities in the Dominican Republic & Haiti. Community Empowerment works in tandem with local leadership to provide essential health care, while creating a self-sustaining system in which our assistance is no longer needed.

Primary care teams, in partnership with local medical trainees, work to provide medical consultations, training, and chronic disease management. Primary care includes Audiology, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics, as well as Dentistry and Physical Therapy.

Surgical teams operate alongside local trainees to provide specialty care that is otherwise unavailable to the patients we serve. Surgical specialties include Craniofacial Plastics, Otolaryngology, Gynecology/Pelvic Reconstruction, General Surgery, Orthopedics, Urology, and Pediatric Urology.