Virginia Hospital Center Medical Brigade
The Virginia Hospital Center Medical Brigade sponsors both annual humanitarian healthcare mission trips and sustainable healthcare intervention models in Honduras, one of the poorest countries in all of the Americas.
Annual Humanitarian Healthcare Mission Trips
The Medical Brigade was initially organized in response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Since the inaugural trip in 1999, the Medical Brigade has benefited over 41,000 Honduran citizens, donating millions of dollars of medical supplies in the process. click to read more>>
Sustainable Healthcare Intervention Models
The Medical Brigade's Remote Village Project is a capacity-building, sustainable, and reproducible model of primary and preventive healthcare interventions, which allows the Brigade’s contribution to span “the other 51 weeks of the year.” The Remote Village Project is designed to posture the leaders of remote villages to provide public health education, basic primary healthcare, and complementary public-works development projects to their communities. Initiated in 2005, the model has been implemented in two villages – Valle Bonito and San Antonio de la Libertad. click to read more>>
The Medical Brigade Initiative
The Medical Brigade is an initiative of Virginia Hospital Center (www.virginiahospitalcenter.com), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that has provided exceptional medical services to the Washington metropolitan area for over 60 years. Virginia Hospital Center is a teaching hospital, long-associated with Georgetown University’s School of Medicine, and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and Licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health. click to read more>>