Children's Hospital Boston in Ghana

Profile: The nurses

Nurses Bev Small, RN, (left) graduated from Dartmouth Hitchcock School of Nursing. She has worked in Children’s Hospital Boston’s Cardiac Intensive Care Unit for 25 years. She helped organize the first mission to Kumasi, Ghana, in October of last year. She did medical missions in Leon, Nicaragua from 1999 to 2006, and has done a yearly medical mission to Haiti to provide basic medical care to local villages since 2001.

Christine Placidi, RN, BSN, (center) graduated from Curry College with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She has worked in Children’s Hospital Boston’s Cardiac Intensive Care Unit for eight years. She went on the first mission to Kumasi, Ghana, in October of last year, and previously participated in four similar missions to Leon, Nicaragua.

Judy Hurley, RN, BSN, (right) graduated from Northeastern University. She has worked at Children’s Hospital Boston for 27 years, 25 of which have been in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. She went on the first mission to Kumasi, Ghana, in October of last year, and has participated in six surgical missions to Leon, Nicaragua.

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  • Meet the Team - November 2011
  • Meet the Team - October 2010
  • Meet the Team - October 2009
  • Make a gift
  • Meet the team - October 2008
  • The future
  • Profile: The nurses
  • Profile: Francis Fynn-Thompson, MD
  • Sponsor
  • Children's first trip to Ghana
  • Glossary
  • Meet the team - March 2008

2011 Kamasi Childrens Home

2011 Clinic Day 1

2011 Clinic Day 2

2011 OR Highlights

  • Vipin

2011 Anikroma

2011 Cape Coast

2011 Highlights

  • Dwayne

Scenes of Ghana 2011

Faces of Ghana

2011 Cape Coast

Archives

  • November 14, 2011
  • November 12, 2011
  • November 11, 2011
  • November 10, 2011
  • November 9, 2011
  • November 8, 2011
  • November 7, 2011
  • November 6, 2011
  • November 5, 2011
  • November 4, 2011

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