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Hôpital Sacré Coeur (HSC) is the largest private hospital in the North of Haiti. Located in the town of Milot, the 73 bed hospital has provided uninterrupted service for 23 years. This premier Haitian healthcare facility has been a beacon of hope for the people of Northern Haiti as it creates a healthier Haiti, one dignified life at a time.

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Hôpital Sacré Coeur hosts two operating rooms, outpatient clinics, an on-site full laboratory, pharmacy, labor and delivery room, pediatric wing, and blood bank. The hospital offers full maternity services, a Filariasis Project, HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program including the prevention of mother-to-child transmission, and a children’s nutrition center for malnourished preschoolers. Outreach is done through the Community Health Services department. At the present, nine public health nurses and thirty three “health agents” serve the region and reach over 150,000 people in the outlying area with vaccinations, pre-natal care, basic hygiene, nutrition training, and treatment of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and filariasis. The hospital is one of only 2 locations in Haiti treating entire families including children with antiretroviral drugs. These are provided at no cost to the patients through the AIDSRelief consortium. HSC has the great distinction of being named a Reference Hospital (an official referral site) by the Haitian Ministry of Health.
It is estimated that in Haiti 60% of the population, particularly in rural areas lack access to basic healthcare services. Statistics show that in Haiti there is one doctor to every 10,000 inhabitants. HSC serves a population of 225,000 people. In 2008, Hôpital Sacré Coeur treated over 56,000 people on an outpatient basis and performed over 1,200 surgeries. It had over 4,100 hospital admissions and 1,262 newborn deliveries. There is no other pharmacy or laboratory in the area, so last year the hospital filled 136,000 prescriptions and completed over 77,000 lab tests. In addition, the hospital served an average of 24 children per day in its Nutrition Center program and provided almost 2,000 patient visits through the Mobile Clinic project.