kissito 2013 year in review
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2013: a year in review
“for the betterment and care of human life”
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Kissito PACE of Roanoke opened its doors
in November with eleven participants,
the highest first-month enrollment in the
Commonwealth of Virginia. PACE is designed
to reduce the institutionalization rate of elders
in the Roanoke Valley by over fifty percent.
PACE
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Kissito led the founding of Virginia Conservation
Legacy Fund, an organization dedicated to
the reinvigoration of the historic Natural Bridge
in Rockbridge County, Virginia. VCLF will
ultimately donate the bridge to become a
Virginia State Park and a center for nature-based
tourism and environmental education.
Natural Bridge
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Kissito is establishing an improved cookstove
distribution system in eastern Uganda to reduce
abundant health issues, the cost of cooking, the
time required to collect firewood, and forest
degradation. Improved cookstoves are expected
to reduce carbon emissions by fifty percent.
Cookstoves
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In 2013, Kissito’s award-winning skilled
nursing facilities in Virginia and Arizona served
an average of 387 patients each day.
Nursing Facilities
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Kissito helped to start the Busitema Medical School
in Mbale, Uganda, providing 16,000+ medical
textbooks, instructional laboratories, and computers
to the school. Kissito sponsors medical students
who are committed to practicing medicine in the
rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa after graduation.
Busitema
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Kissito’s five year old Collaborative Patient Care
Pathway (“CP2™”) program has been successfully
implemented throughout the United States. CP2™ is
a chronic disease self-management program
with strong evidence based outcomes.
CP2™
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Kissito began a reforestation and water improvement
project in the Mt. Elgon region of eastern Uganda,
which was ravaged by a hailstorm and subsequent
landslides in August 2013.
Mt. Elgon
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Kissito continued plans for the joint management
of 6,600 acres of land in western Virginia along
with government entities. The vast majority of the
acreage will be used for wildlife habitat
management and forest carbon sequestration.
Land Conservation
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Kissito’s nutrition programs in Wanale and Bugobero,
Uganda, treat an average of 70 children on any given
day. Kissito-supported Health Centers in Uganda
treated over 25,000 children in 2013.
Uganda Nutrition
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Kissito Village in Roanoke, Virginia, provides
affordable housing for the elderly and disabled,
many of whom would otherwise be at risk for
institutionalization. Purchased in 2013, Kissito
is currently undertaking a $2.5 million
renovation of Kissito Village.
Kissito Village
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Kissito supports three of the seven motorcycle
ambulances in the Mbale, Bududa, and Manafwa
Districts of Uganda. In 2013, these ambulances
made over 6,000 life-saving runs. The fleet will
increase to thirty vehicles in 2014.
Ambulances
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Kissito began plans for its new southwest Virginia
office which will open in 2015. The new space
is expected to be a model of energy-efficient
and green construction.
Energy Efficient Building
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Kissito Healthcare Ethiopia continued its CMAM pro-
grams including a program to address community-
based nutrition management in Halaba, Ethiopia, in
partnership with USAID.
Ethiopia Nutrition
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Kissito’s Mbale Regional Referral Hospital and
Bugobero Health Center IV received the highest
grading of all facilities in Uganda for 2013.
Uganda Hospitals
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Husband and wife MD/MPH team Mark and Judy
Gustafson, of Salem, Virginia, held three midwife
training sessions in Mbale, Uganda in 2013. The
training sessions, part of the “Kissito Institute”,
focus on improving maternal and newborn health.
Kissito Institute
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Kissito Healthcare International provides
emergency nutrition programs in the
worn-torn Jonglei State of South Sudan.
South Sudan
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Plans for Kissito Riverside in Houston, Texas,
reached the final stages in 2013. Riverside will be
an affordable housing complex for the elderly,
disabled, and homeless in Houston.
Kissito Riverside
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Kissito partnered with We Care Solar and Dr. Laura
Stachel to light up childbirth. Health Centers in
Uganda began using the Solar Suitcase, an invention
by Dr. Stachel which provides a light source during
childbirth. The Solar Suitcase reduces the high risks
that come with childbirth in developing countries.
Solar Suitcase
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Kissito partnered with the engineering department
of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, to
create a water and sanitation plan for three locations
in Uganda. The pilot projects took off in August 2013
and construction will continue in 2014/2015.
Uganda Water
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Kissito began sponsoring Dr. Mohamed Shalaby,
the only surgeon at the Garowe General Hospital in
Puntland, Somalia, in partnership with the Puntland
Ministry of Health, in the fall of 2013 . Kissito also
shipped a container full of essential drugs and
medical supplies to the hospital in 2013.
Somalia Surgeon
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Kissito, the Regional Government, and partner
Dr. Morris Cerullo are approaching the culmination
of a five-year long project to build a teaching
hospital in Kamashi, in the Benishangul-Gumuz
Region of Ethiopia.
Kamashi
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As in the twenty-five years past,
Kissito continued upholding our
values of IPER in 2013.
Integrity, Passion,
Excellence, and Respect:
Driving everything we do
in every office, facility,
and area we work.
Our dedication to IPER
continues in 2014.
I P E R
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