July 22, 2015
Stamford, Conn. — July 22, 2015 — AmeriCares is a proud supporter of the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015 (LA2015), providing donated medical supplies to keep athletes healthy throughout nine days of competition.
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 06, 2015
Stamford, Conn. — July 6, 2015 — AmeriCares, the emergency response and global health organization, has welcomed Jed Selkowitz as its Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. In his new role, Selkowitz is charged with providing both strategic leadership and hands-on tactical execution of the organizationi¢â‚¬â„¢s brand marketing and communications efforts.
July 02, 2015
July 01, 2015
June 29, 2015
Stamford, Conn. – June 29, 2015 – AmeriCares is pleased to announce former Deloitte Global Managing…
June 08, 2015
Stamford, Conn. — June 8, 2015 — AmeriCares, in partnership with the Healthcare Distribution Management Association (HDMA), has presented its annual Power of Partnership Award to Bristol-Myers Squibb in recognition of its outstanding commitment to increasing access to medicine, health worker safety and improving the wellbeing of children worldwide.
June 05, 2015
Stamford, Conn. — June 5, 2015 — AmeriCares, the Stamford-based emergency response and global health organization, has welcomed Dennis Rice as its new Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Innovation.
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 20, 2015
Stamford, Conn. – May 20, 2015 – AmeriCares is delivering $13 million worth of medicine and supplies to…
May 15, 2015
Stamford, Conn. — May 15, 2015 — Three emerging AmeriCares leaders have been selected to participate in the 7th annual American Express Leadership Academy, May 17-22, at the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona.
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 25, 2015
Stamford, Conn. – April 25, 2015 – AmeriCares is responding to the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal earlier…
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
March 17, 2015
A woman’s life is saved when a volunteer medical team on an annual visit to El Salvador performs emergency surgery using supplies and medicine donated by AmeriCares– one of over 1,200 medical teams supported through our Medical Outreach last year.
A rare condition and a rare surgery by a volunteer medical team supported with medicine and supplies from AmeriCares Medical Outreach gave a baby in Peru a real smile for the first time in her life.