Caring For The Health & Well Being Of Our Community.
We are a group of healthcare professionals from around the globe.
Brief History:
In response to the serious academic, clinical and access issues, facing healthcare in Egypt, we started, 15 years ago, addressing some of these challenges, through short-term campaigns for education and training, charity care and limited community development.
It all began with a call for help by the parents of a 6 months old baby who was blinded by poor healthcare. So, we initiated sustainable programs in clinical Ophthalmology, rehabilitation and integration, then expanded to other specialties. International teams of healthcare professionals donated time, talent and treasure to provide these periodic (but progressively growing) services over the span of the past 15 years. During that time, we had an American trained family medicine doctor join us and move to Egypt permanently.
It is these successful experiences that prompted us to start this more permanent and unique solution: Egypt Light of the World Association for Healthcare Affairs (ELWAHA).
As the first fruit of that association, we are building a model, multi-specialty hospital in New-Cairo.
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Vision/Mission
Our vision is to be a model hospital for patients and physicians in Egypt and elsewhere.
Our mission is to provide outstanding healthcare for our community, and train healthcare professionals to do likewise.
Goals
- A state-of-the-art multi-specialty hospital, as first model (currently nearing completion in New Cairo)
- A system for evaluation, training and credentialing healthcare professionals, based on international standards (started in 2016)
- Accessibility to, and affordability of excellent healthcare to everyone, regardless of economic, religious, ethnic or political background (in-progress)
- Financially sustainable business plan (in-progress)
- Accountability and transparency for improving and implementing “best practices” (in-progress)
- Networking with resources and beneficiaries, including other hospitals (started 2016)
- Public health and community development with emphasis on prevention (planned for 2023)
- Rehabilitation and wellness with emphasis on integration (successfully launched in Assiut and now expanding to Cairo and upper Egypt)
- Advanced technology, especially regarding EHR, connectivity, networking, distant education and consultation (currently in partnership with 3 international companies)
- Growth and reproducibility (planning future satellites and duplicates) as well as sharing the training and education resources with the network hospitals
Strategies
- Physical structure (under construction)
- Physicians and Dentists: SET (Standardization, Evaluation and Training)
- Nursing (cooperative work with Nurses International & some Egyptian nursing schools)
- Pharmacists (credentialing by western professors)
- Technicians (in-house training)
- Mid-wives (planning a school)
- Administrators (sandwich training with USA programs, especially George Washington University, West Virginia University, and Mon Health systems)
- Support staff (in-house training)
- Volunteers (in-house training)
- Networking and exchange programs (esp. for family medicine and public health)