2013: a year in review

“for the betterment and care of human life”

Kissito PACE of Roanoke opened its doors

in November with eleven participants,

the highest first-month enrollment in the

Commonwealth of Virginia. PACE is designed

to reduce the institutionalization rate of elders

in the Roanoke Valley by over fifty percent.

PACE

Kissito led the founding of Virginia Conservation

Legacy Fund, an organization dedicated to

the reinvigoration of the historic Natural Bridge

in Rockbridge County, Virginia. VCLF will

ultimately donate the bridge to become a

Virginia State Park and a center for nature-based

tourism and environmental education.

Natural Bridge

Kissito is establishing an improved cookstove

distribution system in eastern Uganda to reduce

abundant health issues, the cost of cooking, the

time required to collect firewood, and forest

degradation. Improved cookstoves are expected

to reduce carbon emissions by fifty percent.

Cookstoves

In 2013, Kissito’s award-winning skilled

nursing facilities in Virginia and Arizona served

an average of 387 patients each day.

Nursing Facilities

Kissito helped to start the Busitema Medical School

in Mbale, Uganda, providing 16,000+ medical

textbooks, instructional laboratories, and computers

to the school. Kissito sponsors medical students

who are committed to practicing medicine in the

rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa after graduation.

Busitema

Kissito’s five year old Collaborative Patient Care

Pathway (“CP2™”) program has been successfully

implemented throughout the United States. CP2™ is

a chronic disease self-management program

with strong evidence based outcomes.

CP2™

Kissito began a reforestation and water improvement

project in the Mt. Elgon region of eastern Uganda,

which was ravaged by a hailstorm and subsequent

landslides in August 2013.

Mt. Elgon

Kissito continued plans for the joint management

of 6,600 acres of land in western Virginia along

with government entities. The vast majority of the

acreage will be used for wildlife habitat

management and forest carbon sequestration.

Land Conservation

Kissito’s nutrition programs in Wanale and Bugobero,

Uganda, treat an average of 70 children on any given

day. Kissito-supported Health Centers in Uganda

treated over 25,000 children in 2013.

Uganda Nutrition

Kissito Village in Roanoke, Virginia, provides

affordable housing for the elderly and disabled,

many of whom would otherwise be at risk for

institutionalization. Purchased in 2013, Kissito

is currently undertaking a $2.5 million

renovation of Kissito Village.

Kissito Village

Kissito supports three of the seven motorcycle

ambulances in the Mbale, Bududa, and Manafwa

Districts of Uganda. In 2013, these ambulances

made over 6,000 life-saving runs. The fleet will

increase to thirty vehicles in 2014.

Ambulances

Kissito began plans for its new southwest Virginia

office which will open in 2015. The new space

is expected to be a model of energy-efficient

and green construction.

Energy Efficient Building

Kissito Healthcare Ethiopia continued its CMAM pro-

grams including a program to address community-

based nutrition management in Halaba, Ethiopia, in

partnership with USAID.

Ethiopia Nutrition

Kissito’s Mbale Regional Referral Hospital and

Bugobero Health Center IV received the highest

grading of all facilities in Uganda for 2013.

Uganda Hospitals

Husband and wife MD/MPH team Mark and Judy

Gustafson, of Salem, Virginia, held three midwife

training sessions in Mbale, Uganda in 2013. The

training sessions, part of the “Kissito Institute”,

focus on improving maternal and newborn health.

Kissito Institute

Kissito Healthcare International provides

emergency nutrition programs in the

worn-torn Jonglei State of South Sudan.

South Sudan

Plans for Kissito Riverside in Houston, Texas,

reached the final stages in 2013. Riverside will be

an affordable housing complex for the elderly,

disabled, and homeless in Houston.

Kissito Riverside

Kissito partnered with We Care Solar and Dr. Laura

Stachel to light up childbirth. Health Centers in

Uganda began using the Solar Suitcase, an invention

by Dr. Stachel which provides a light source during

childbirth. The Solar Suitcase reduces the high risks

that come with childbirth in developing countries.

Solar Suitcase

Kissito partnered with the engineering department

of Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, to

create a water and sanitation plan for three locations

in Uganda. The pilot projects took off in August 2013

and construction will continue in 2014/2015.

Uganda Water

Kissito began sponsoring Dr. Mohamed Shalaby,

the only surgeon at the Garowe General Hospital in

Puntland, Somalia, in partnership with the Puntland

Ministry of Health, in the fall of 2013 . Kissito also

shipped a container full of essential drugs and

medical supplies to the hospital in 2013.

Somalia Surgeon

Kissito, the Regional Government, and partner

Dr. Morris Cerullo are approaching the culmination

of a five-year long project to build a teaching

hospital in Kamashi, in the Benishangul-Gumuz

Region of Ethiopia.

Kamashi

As in the twenty-five years past,

Kissito continued upholding our

values of IPER in 2013.

Integrity, Passion,

Excellence, and Respect:

Driving everything we do

in every office, facility,

and area we work.

Our dedication to IPER

continues in 2014.

I P E R

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