Hôpital Sainte Croix (HSC) is in Léogâne, Haiti, about 40 miles west of the capital of Port-au-Prince. Owned by the Episcopal Church of Haiti (EEH), the hospital is a regional medical center providing care for the peninsula area. Started as a small out-patient clinic in 1968, the hospital has endured through unimaginable hardships. Natural disasters, extreme poverty, civil and political unrest, hijacked equipment and COVID-19 have all failed to extinguish the beacon of hope that shines out from HSC.

HSC serves a region of just over 500,000 people and is the only hospital in the area that serves pregnant women, no matter what time of day they arrive. The hospital has the region’s only neo-natal nursery and provides care for complex births including C-sections. In a country where maternal deaths and neo-natal deaths are among the highest in the world, the services HSC offers are essential. Without HSC, patients would be forced to travel over perilous routes east to Port au Prince or over the mountains to a government hospital at Jacmel.

The hospital team’s response to the 2021 earthquake is a story of resilience, self-reliance, and stands as proof of the benefits of building sustainable medical missions.

HSC also provides care in neighboring Darbonne at the Maternal Child Health Clinic where thousands of women and children receive quality medical care. The incidence of maternal and neonatal death at the hospital and the outreach clinic are dramatically lower than in the average in Haiti.

The hospital benefits from its strong relationship with the Faculty of Nursing Science of the Episcopal University of Haiti (FSIL) Nursing School in Léogâne. Students from FSIL train at HSC and help with patient care.