November 03, 2015
Free and charitable clinics that serve over 2 million patients in the U.S. are adapting their operational model in innovative ways to accommodate declining resources under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new AmeriCares study.
October 28, 2015
Two years ago, Kla Williams’s lost his job when his hometown of Monrovia, Liberia, was…
Skilled health workers are critical to a full recovery from the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa. AmeriCares is working in Liberia and Sierra Leone to strengthen the workforce and health facilities and rebuild community trust in health services.
October 24, 2015
AmeriCares emergency response experts have arrived in Mexico to assist with the recovery efforts for Hurricane Patricia that made landfall on October 23 with 165mph winds and torrential rains.
October 08, 2015
AmeriCares is rushing emergency medicine and relief supplies to South Carolina for families affected by the historic flooding. The shipments are headed to three free clinics in the state serving uninsured and low-income families
October 07, 2015
South Carolina, United States AmeriCares Responds to Historic South Carolina Flooding October 07, 2015 Newsroom,…
September 16, 2015
September 08, 2015
As Cyclone Komen and heavy monsoon rains trigger more floods in Myanmar and displace more people, AmeriCares is working with a local partner to assess needs and support community-based disaster risk reduction in the affected areas.
August 17, 2015
A survivor of the 2011 Japan Tsunami tells how the hand delivery of a newsletter by an AmeriCares partner in the recovery process saved his life and gave him a cause to promote and celebrate.
July 28, 2015
AmeriCares is responding with emergency medical teams, coordinated relief efforts and shipments of medical aid to help survivors of the earthquakes that rocked Nepal, killing thousands and sending the region into chaos.
July 20, 2015
AmeriCares is providing primary support for the 2015 National Survey of Free & Charitable Clinics– a key initiative to assess the impact of health reform on safety net clinics and identify new needs and resource gaps that have resulted from health reform.
July 10, 2015
AmeriCares rushed medical and humanitarian aid to local partners in Oklahoma, Texas and Illinois after days of tornadoes and record rainfall in the Plains and Midwest region caused major flooding in May and June.
July 02, 2015
July 01, 2015
June 05, 2015
In Guatemala, a volunteer surgical team supported by AmeriCares Medical Outreach gives Felipe his sight back– one of 60 life-changing eye surgeries performed during their medical trip to provide critical health care to people in need.
May 11, 2015
A volunteer medical team on its regular visit to Bolivia performs a complex surgery for free, giving a young college student the ability to eat normally again and live a productive, healthy life.
May 06, 2015
April 20, 2015
A community leader mobilizes the people in his farming and fishing community in El Salvador to improve their health and overall quality of life through regular visits to the AmeriCares Family Clinic in Santiago de Maria.
April 03, 2015
Forty years ago Bob Macauley, a Connecticut businessman, chartered a plane and helped save the lives of orphan children who had survived a plane crash during the evacuation in the last days of the Vietnam war. i¢â‚¬Å“Operation Babylifti¢â‚¬Â gave rise to AmeriCares, a global organization dedicated to saving lives and restoring health.
March 20, 2015