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Partnership:
Guam
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Updated April 2, 2007
Latest Mission
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A volunteer team of doctors, nurses and technicians performed heart surgery
for ten patients in 2005 as part of one of the largest philanthropic efforts
in Guam’s health care history.
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Guam is only cardiac care center in the region and
serves as the central tertiary care center for all of the Micronesian
islands
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MRF plans to make four trips a year to perform
cardiac-related surgeries.
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Focus is catheterization, up to twelve surgeries a trip.
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Future plans include placing stents and performing
angioplasty.
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Over $250,000 in medical equipment has been donated to
Guam Memorial Hospital.
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These efforts are sponsored in partnership with Valley
Heart Association.
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Patients identified as most in need of the surgery incur
no cost for services rendered.
Furture Goals:
A follow up cardiac
team is planned for the spring of 2007.
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