Bethesda Hospital Medical Ministries "to serve, not to be served"
Mark 10:45
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  • Primary target group :
  • Dayak tribal people of the Borneo Rainforest
  • Ownership :
  • Indonesian Bethesda Foundation of Kalimantan, with a continued working agreement with WorldVentue (formerly CBInternational)
  • Evangelism :
  • 4 full time evangelism staff averaging 30 first time decisions for Christ per month
  • Acute care facilities :
  • 90 in-patient beds averaging 4000 in-patient and 25,000 out-patient visits per year
  • Education :
  • Academy of nursing, CME training for Indonesian physicians
  • Community Health Development :
  • - serving over seventy hamlets scattered in remote areas of the rainforest where government service is scarce
    - working with New Tribes Pilots, four satellite clinics have been established to serve the Dayak tribal groups
  • National Staff :
  • - 11 senior and 8 junior Christian medical doctors
    - 2 dentists
    - a pharmacist
    - several nurses with advanced training
    - total hospital work force = nearly 260 people, over 70 of them being general duty nurses.

  • Foreign Staff :
  • 1 American medical doctor
  • Funding source :
  • The hospital is able to fund its daily operational expenses by providing quality medical care to middle class city dwellers who travel from 1 to 8 hours to receive health care based on integrity and concern for the individual. Salaries for foreign staff are from overseas, as are equipment donations.
  • Patient payment :
  • Patients pay in cash, based on a three tiered billing system. The lowest tier receives a mixture of deeply discounted and nearly free care, while the highest tier pays market price for their care. Each month, the hospital subsidizes this patient class for a value of 10%-20% of its total income.
  • Medical services offered :
  • - laboratory evaluation: complete urinalysis, fecal analysis, malaria smear, TB sputum smear, spinal fluid analysis, complete blood count, SGOT, SGPT, total bilirubin, glucose, creatinine, BUN, calcium, gram stain, blood culture
    - Ultrasound imaging: black and white ultrasound of liver, breast, thyroid, gall bladder, kidney, bladder, uterus, heart.
    - plain film X-ray
    - IVP, retrograde pyelography and single contrast barium enema
    - C-arm fluoroscopy
    - EKG
    - Surgical services including: total abdominal hysterectomy, Caesarian section, exploratory laparotomy, large and small bowel resections, inguinal hernia repair, gastrectomy, cholecystectomy, evacuation of subdural hematomas, nephrectomy, prostatectomy, orthopedic repairs of broken limbs, limb salvage surgery.
    - Endoscopy: rigid diagnostic and therapeutic cystoscopy, gastroscopy, sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy
    - anesthesia: local, regional block, spinal, epidural, general anesthesia of infants to adults.
  • Facilities :
  • 90 bed capacity, 4 bed ICU with ventilator support, oximetry and cardiac monitoring, 3 room air conditioned surgical suite, portable oxygen therapy, portable suction therapy, mechanized laundry services
  • Support :
  • central steam supply for dryers, autoclave, 110 volt 60 cycle electrical power (with plans to transition to 220 volt 50 cycle) provided by 175 KW hydroelectric power plant with diesel backup generators, 10,000 watt UPS system, 15 station computer LAN system for patient registration and billing.


     
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