AmeriCares seeks Program Manager for Safe Surgery Initiative in Medical Outreach Program
ABOUT AMERICARES
AmeriCares is an emergency response and global health organization that saves lives and builds healthier futures for people in crisis in the U.S. and around the world. Every day, AmeriCares puts critically needed medicines and supplies in the hands of frontline health workers and develops innovative, sustainable health improvements in their communities. We are the leading nonprofit for delivering donated medicines and medical supplies to health programs around the world. We leverage this core competency with emergency preparedness, response and recovery efforts, and programs that improve health outcomes. Our programs increase access to care in more than 90 countries every year.
MEDICAL OUTREACH PROGRAM SUMMARY
US-based volunteer medical teams travel abroad to provide primary care, perform surgeries, respond to emergencies and strengthen local health care capacity. It is our mission to support this community with product and technical resources, and opportunities for collaboration to enhance their impact so more people have access to the health care they need to lead healthy, productive, independent lives. In fiscal 2014, Medical Outreach provided $48.5 million in product donations, allowing 1,223 medical outreach teams to see hundreds of thousands of patients, perform tens of thousands of surgeries and develop the skills of countless health care staff.
POSITION SUMMARY
A Safe Surgery Initiative (SSI) will improve access to safe surgery in low-resource settings, specifically it will increase the number of operating room staff that have access to and are trained in the use of pulse oximeters for patient monitoring as a critical component of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. The program manager has primary responsibility for developing and implementing a SSI pilot program using our network of volunteer surgical teams, inventory of medical products, the Exchange website, and logistics and reporting capabilities to assess oximeter needs, deliver devices and training, collect related data and report on impact. The SSI will establish a sustainable model for an ongoing and expanded SSI to improve surgical safety, and for subsequent, additional health care quality initiatives.
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