Family Health Center and Maternity Hospital
Serving Women and Families since 1994
CASA’s Hospital provides high quality, affordable health care services to urban, rural and indigenous residents, especially youth, young families, and the elderly. Inaugurated in 1994, the hospital also serves as a teaching institution for CASA’s distinguished Professional Midwifery School. The students, in conjunction with a professional, inter-disciplinary team, provide an empowering and dignified birthing experience.
Family Planning and Gynecology:
- Contraceptive counseling and methods
- Sterilizations
- Pap smears
- Reproductive cancer screenings
- HIV and STD tests
Maternity:
- Prenatal counseling
- Ultrasounds
- Professional midwife attended births
- Six Private birthing rooms
- Two water birthing tubs
- Intervention for complicated births, including cesarean
- Breast-feeding assistance
- Post partum and follow-up care
Other Health Care Practitioners Available:
- General Physician
- Psychologist
- Dentist
- Pharmacist
- Podiatrist
- Ophthalmologist
- Surgeon
- Pediatrician
- Laboratory Technician
New in 2009:
- Colposcopy
- Bone density scans
- Menopause counseling
Thanks to Doña Antonia and her collaborators my daughter is well and with me. I felt bad and was afraid to go to CASA because I knew I didn’t have [the money] for the birth but all the time the pains were worse and that’s why I went but the only thing I thought about was how I was going to pay and I thought I could only give her up for adoption, or not go on living. But now I can only say thank you a thousand thank yous to everyone and hope one day I can repay the generosity and without their help I don’t know what I would have done. [sic]
-Lucia Ramirez Ramirez (translated from Spanish) |
Mother and Child at CASA Hospital
Achievements to
date (1994–2008):
- 461,636 medical consultations
- 136,043 laboratory analysis
- 58,208 dental consultations
- 18,558 methods of contraception given
- 9,789 pap smears
- 9,642 podiatry procedures
- 8,360 ultrasounds
- 6,393 HIV tests
- 6,684 births
- 5581 natural deliveries
- 1103 cesarean deliveries
- 3,685 psychological consultations
- 2,892 mammograms
- 754 tubal ligations
- 82 vasectomies
Mother and Her Newborn at CASA's Hospital |
