It is just before midnight on Wednesday as I step outside to once again talk to a machine to summarize our day’s events in hopes of bringing our family and friends a bit closer to us through this blog. I look around and there are a few lights in the distance The stars are out [...]
Tag Archives: Dr. Golladay
OAM team #4, day 4 in Haiti
February 10, 2010 – 10:13 am
To recap our second day in Haiti at the Double Harvest Mission: It wouldn’t be another day in Haiti without another delivery! Yes today, Susan Kaminski the OB specialist with us was busy once again. There was another emergent delivery of an infant in the back of a pickup truck. The team at Double Harvest [...]
OAM’s work highlighted in the Grand Rapids Press
February 9, 2010 – 4:31 pm
West Michigan orthopaedic surgeons gave own blood as they worked to save patients injured in Haiti earthquake
By Ted Roelofs | The Grand Rapids Press
February 09, 2010, 11:28AM
As earthquake recovery in Haiti continues, a group of West Michigan medical volunteers is finding rays of hope amid despair and destruction. At a small health clinic east of [...]
1/27: An entry from Dr. Golladay
January 28, 2010 – 9:18 am
We continue to have a tremendous outpouring of support from medical and non-medical personnel throughout the community. We have a confirmed commitment to partner with Partners In Health at Double Harvest for the next several months and likely beyond for an indefinite period of time. I thank everyone who has contributed their support to the [...]
1/27: Call from Dr. Bielema
January 27, 2010 – 4:03 pm
As you may have heard another physician and I went to the Dominican Republic yesterday to bring back a sizable group of Haitian refugees. These are folks who traveled more than 100 kilometers away from the site of the earthquake to seek treatment. Many of them ended up in a facility which was not adequate [...]
1/27: Thanks for ongoing support and care
January 27, 2010 – 2:18 pm
I have spoken by phone with Dr. Bielema. The team at Double Harvest continues to change and has received additional patients from outlying areas. They have a full surgical schedule today and are happy to report that they have delivered some healthy babies at Double Harvest.
A new team met last night to coordinate logistics. We [...]
1/26: A thank you from Dr. Golladay
January 26, 2010 – 10:07 am
To all:
Thanks to everyone for their support of the relief effort in Haiti. I am on a plane in the Dominican Republic now and expect to be home late tonight.
The huge international response to this tragedy has been overwhelming but not so well coordinated as many relief agencies, NGO’s, individuals, militaries, etc., have generated aid [...]
1/25: Call from Dr. Bielema
January 25, 2010 – 10:27 pm
Greg Golladay left today. No one can be prouder of what he has done than his colleagues. By the time he left he was basically the medical director for a 30 person OR and has done an incredible job. He will never tell you this, so I am happy to do so. Greg has been [...]
1/24: Call from Dr. Golladay
January 24, 2010 – 1:36 pm
Hello!
I am sorry that I haven’t been in better touch, but communication has been difficult. We are at Croix des Bouquets which is at Double Harvest Mission which is a health center with two ORs and a somewhat sustainable farm run by VanWingerden family. They have been incredibly accommodating during the disaster. Double Harvest is [...]
1/23: Call from the team
January 23, 2010 – 3:25 pm
One of the things the team has learned early in this process is that things can change at any time. There is certainly a lot of dynamic dynamism in patient care, logistics and other things. It became real to us today when we found out last night at midnight that we would be sold to [...]
