A Visit to the Hospital

I don't know if I've never given a whole lot of information about what  Hospital Lumiere is and what it offers. Sometimes I miss the obvious :-P . So here goes our tour...

Main Entrance of the Hospital

When you enter the hospital through the main entrance, you come in to the Welcome Center. This waiting area is designed for the clinic area which is open Monday through Friday. This is where people pay for their doctors appointments, labs, medications, x-rays,etc. They wait here to be seen by a doctor in the clinic. 

The Newly Renovated Welcome Center

The clinic and emergency department are across the hallway from the Welcome Center. As you walk out of this area, you follow a beautiful covered walkway that takes you past a building that includes laboratory, x-ray, pharmacy, laundry, sterilization, and surgery.  

As you turn a corner, you go past David's office.  He says he can make it sound really good....he has his own office building with vaulted ceilings!  In actuality, his office is in an approximately 10 foot by 10 foot electrical building so he can keep his eye on things...but it does have about 15 foot tall walls :)  As you pass his office, you get to the actual hospital inpatient area. It is divided into four wings, with a total capacity of 120 beds. Each wing has four large patient rooms, and some have one private room. The units are Surgery, Medicine, OB/GYN, and Peds. At this time ob/gyn and peds are all in the same ward. The pediatric ward is not yet opened. All of the wards except for medicine have been renovated recently. 

Unrenovated Ward

The empty peds ward is sometimes used when medical teams come for eye, dental, or women's clinics for example. Our OB unit is usually very busy with lots of women and babies. There is usually a room full of kids in the peds room, and a few babies in our small NICU room. Medicine Ward has patients with chronic illnesses like diabetes, TB, urological problems, etc. In the surgery ward we see a lot of patients who have had trauma. A lot of accidents happen on motorcycles, so there are a lot of young men with broken bones.

The last section of buildings on the actual grounds is the administration building with offices for the Directors, Translators, Pastors, Human Resources, and Finance.

Left - David's office.  Middle - Entrance to Surgery Ward.  Right - Admin Building

As you walk out of the hospital, you are still on the hospital grounds. There are lots more buildings completely surrounding the actual hospital...toolshed, garage, medical supply depot, woodshop, housing for staff, housing for families of patients, guesthouse for teams. This is the area we live in.

Toolshed

Our Mountain View

Guesthouse

Love this huge tree on the Hospital Grounds!

Going out in a wider view, the community of Bonne Fin surrounds this Hospital Campus.  The road from the mountain road to the community goes straight in front of the hospital so there's a lot of traffic going through...mostly foot and motorcycle. 

View from the mountain road of the Front Gate leading to the Hospital Grounds 

The Mission Statement of the Hospital is pictured below, located in the middle area between all the 4 wards.  In English, the Mission Statement is:  Hospital Lumiere will provide excellent and effective medical care with compassion and Christian love.

So after I had this written, I got an email about a video that does a much better job giving the story of the Hospital and pictures of it, the surrounding area, and people who work here!  So please go check it out at https://vimeo.com/131136331.  It's about 3 minutes, so it won't take very long.  And at the end, my mom and baby Cassia (who's about ready to cry) got a few seconds of fame :)