LifeNet International partners with rural clinics in East Africa to provide training and mentoring for healthcare workers, transforming the quality of care available. Through long-term partnerships, clinic staff gain new medical knowledge and improve healthcare practices, such as handwashing. As a result, patient outcomes have significantly improved and more people receive quality healthcare services. LifeNet's model emphasizes trust and culturally-sensitive teaching methods to create sustainable change through ongoing collaboration between its experts and local clinic partners.

1. Partnership Creates Change: Why one-time educational training interventions in primary care are just not enough in rural East Africa
Dr. Maggie Ehrenfried, PT, DPT
Development Officer
LifeNet International
CCIH Conference June, 2014

2. LifeNet International transforms African clinics to
provide quality, sustainable care.
Life expectancy = 53 years
14% of children die before age 5
Maternal mortality 5th worst
350 doctors for 8.5 million
BURUNDI

3. 94% average improvement
in quality of care since
beginning of partnership
Less than $ 1 per patient
annually
INNOVATIONINCREDIBLE IMPACT
!
45
clinics
850,000
patients/year
6
denomination
s

4. Whenever you enter a town…Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The Kingdom of God ahs come near to you.’
Luke 10:9

5. •Nurses make up 50-80% of the health care work force worldwide (PIH, WHO)
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4728 in Rural /1229 in Bujumbura
Why Nurses?

6. Most Continuing Education
Bujumbura

7. LifeNet Trains and Mentors

8. Medical Training

9. Results in Quality
94%

10. Average increase of 42% in pre/post test scores for LN medical training lessons in 2013
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Results in Knowledge

11. •86% of LN partners increased their patient volume over the course of their LN partnership
•Patient volume increase in first year of partnership
•Monthly average Clinic volume: ~1,580
LN Partner Clinics
Non-Partners
52%
30%
Results in Numbers

12. Before 44% After 79%
Hand-washing

13. Before 62% After 91%
Clothes to Newborns

14. Before 29% After 97%
Explaining Treatment to Patients

15. Before 79% After 100%
Documenting APGAR Scores

16. Before 21% After 97%
Infant Resuscitation

17. Behavior Change
Trust
Majority of Staff On- site Trained
Personalized Training
Friendship
Language and Culturally Sensitive Teaching
Why are we effective?

18. •Photo
“Guherekeza”

19. Growth Goals: Vision 2020
20MM
patient visits*
1,000
clinics
Today
45 Partner Clinics 850,000+ patients*
* annually

20. Partnership Transforms Care Walk with us.
10 Countries
1,000 Church-based Partner Clinics
20 million
Annual Patient Visits

21. Transforming African Healthcare www.LNinternational.org