Dear Friend of the NicaClinic, I'm excited to bring you a very special guest today. She comes to us on site in Nicaragua with her own holiday message to you. Rockstar, long-time clinic medical director, Dr. Hazel Ruiz, is normally camera shy. And she is normally too busy with patients and her team (who collectively work 24/7),...
Dear Friends of the NicaClinic, This Thanksgiving season, we pause to remember how fortunate we are and to lend a helping hand to those in distress. The communities around the Clinic are facing unprecedented flooding, as you can see in this recent video from our team. My heart aches to see this devastation. Families are unable to access...
Our new Clinic CEO, Dr. Shawn Borich, M.D. MPH recently returned from visiting our Clinic team in Nicaragua. And he recorded a short video about his experience. He doesn’t mince words when it comes to his thoughts on the status of our programs and facility there. You can hear for yourself here. If you’re not aware, Nicaragua is ambitiously...
Dear friend of the Clinic, In early June, our new CEO Dr. Shawn Borich traveled to the Clinic with former CEO and Board member Dr. Jose Mosquera. This impressive duo set out to assess our current operations and create a renewed vision for the next three years. The doctors spent time interviewing our Clinic staff, meeting with leaders of the nearby Rancho Santana resort...
We Have a Matching Fund Donor: Help Grant this Father's Biggest Wish - and Double Your Impact! Good morning, I'm Gustavo Adolfo Ibarra Marín, General Manager of our Roberto Clemente Clinic. I've been here since 2005 - the longest out of our current team. It's about time we met! Julia and the Board suggested Father's Day as a good...
Dear Friend of the Clinic, The Diabetes Club started in 2017 due to the need to improve the health conditions and quality of life in patients being seen at the Clinic. Dra. Ruiz noticed an influx of patients developing diabetes mellitus and other comorbidities with acute and chronic complications. For this reason, Dra. Ruiz and the Clinic...