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About HDI
Our Mission
Health Development International is a charitable non-profit organization whose mission is to help hospitals and clinics in developing countries become self-sustaining enterprises known for their quality of care and concern for community.
Our Values
- Health care delivery should be a sustainable enterprise in every culture.
- Ethical principles should be the foundation for making wise business and medical decisions.
- Everyone should have access to basic medical care.
Our Work
HDI focuses on 4 specific objectives to fulfill our mission of helping hospitals and clinics worldwide become self-sustaining.
- Mobilizing volunteer healthcare managers and consultants to provide practical management training.
- Establishing long-term mentoring relationships with healthcare leaders.
- Providing short-term planning guidance and consultations.
- Connecting healthcare organizations with public and private sources for capital financing.
We have clear criteria for measuring our impact:
- We look for improvement in profit margins, both in real currency and as a percent of improvement from the prior year. Sustainability requires positive cash flow.
- We monitor improvements in patient satisfaction as measured by internal surveys as well as stories from patients and community members.
- When new jobs are created at a hospital because of improvements in capacity and profitability, they have a positive rippling effect throughout the community.
We track reductions in the ratio of income that depends on donors. When hospitals are able to pay their bills from service revenues, they expand their long-term impact in the community and free up donor support for other ventures.
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