Health System Strengthening

Increasing Access to Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities

Strong health systems are essential to address health emergencies and ongoing health threats in the communities we serve. We partner with and support existing healthcare facilities, provide medicines and supplies, support the construction of new facilities, and ensure modern and appropriate medical equipment to save the lives of women and children and improve health in communities worldwide.

Although health systems differ from country to country, there are general issues that are shared globally.

Approximately one billion people are not accessing appropriate health services.

Significant challenges include general lack of access and availability of care, and unaffordable or simply poor quality health services.

Our programs embrace a systems approach to effectively strengthen the performance of individual faith-based and government health facilities within the wider health system. Many countries have taken the first step toward improving their current systems by completing WHO’s Country Accountability Framework tool. The framework measures health system status and lays the foundation for the development of a road map to implement strategies to strengthen the current health system.

Our approach to health system strengthening includes:

  • Enabling and improving the quality of service delivery.
  • Health workforce.
  • Health information systems.
  • Medical products and commodities.
  • Finance.
  • Leadership and governance.

By working with facility staff and community health workers, we strengthen the referral systems between the community and health facilities, including referrals from lower- to higher-level facilities. Through partnerships, we help ensure that quality healthcare is provided to the most vulnerable by providing outreach services following national guidelines and protocols, with appropriate reporting.

Building Capacity

CMMB supports strong grant management and compliance by building the capacity of relevant staff at hospitals. To strengthen governance and leadership, CMMB helps review and update polices and procedures, introduce/reinforce best practices, and develop and implement strategic plans.

Competent and trained staff who are able to provide technical oversight to others are vital to the overall success and sustainability of the health system. CMMB also works with health facilities to improve documentation and data use for decision-making. Efficiency is guaranteed when facilities are confident that they have the right health personnel in the right position doing the right job, ensuring delivery of quality health services.

Projects

Strengthening Quality Care at St. Theresa Mission Hospital
CMMB helped to build four new critical buildings and improve staff capacity in a hospital in Nzara.
Eliminating Malaria in Kenya
CMMB is enhancing malaria preparedness and coverage by providing high-quality preventive and curative services in the highlands of western Kenya.
Santé! Reinforcing Primary Healthcare in Haiti
Santé is implementing, scaling up, and raising the quality of culturally appropriate primary healthcare services to improve family, community, and population health across Haiti.
Strengthening Child Protection in South Sudan
This project is helping rehabilitate and reintegrate children who have fled violence or have been forced into association with violent conflict as camp laborers or combatants.
Looking at Digital Health Among Women Religious Across Six Countries
CMMB surveyed nuns and other women religious to determine their readiness to introduce digital technology into the faith-based facilities they lead.
Tackling Newborn Mortality in Peru
CMMB tackled maternal anemia, low birth weight, and other issues driving the unusually high maternal and child mortality in the communities we support.
Primary Healthcare for the Poor in South Sudan
CMMB South Sudan was tasked with standardizing, functionalizing, equipping, and staffing health facilities to provide the minimum package of high-quality primary healthcare services.
Toward a Healthy First 1,000 Days in Peru
This program targeted two especially vulnerable groups in Peru: children during the period between birth and age two, and expectant mothers.
Strengthening Haiti's Supply Chain Management
This project trains pharmacists in the communities we serve to manage an expected increase in donated medications and medical supplies from major U.S. pharmaceutical companies.
Ending Malaria in Zambian Communities
CMMB Zambia worked to protect women and children from malaria, which accounts for half the deaths of Zambians under five and 20 percent of maternal deaths.
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision to Prevent HIV in Kenya
Unique, cost-effective voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) model is a part of CMMB's HIV prevention package.
Caring for Those Suffering from Leprosy in Haiti
CMMB Haiti supports leprosy testing and treatment activities in Gonaïves, with case finding by local community health workers.
Strengthening Haiti’s Supply Chain for Medicines
At the request of Haiti’s national Ministry of Public Health and Population, CMMB assessed 12 medical warehouses in all 10 départements to identify operational and structural deficiencies as part of a national rehabilitation program.
Training Young Haitians to Rehabilitate Amputees
After founding the Haitian Amputee Coalition in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, CMMB established an apprenticeship program designed to continue to address the country’s needs for rehabilitation and prosthetics and orthotics.
Improving the Health of Haiti’s Moms and Children
CMMB Haiti is working to improve the health of mothers and children for better birth outcomes, improved family nutritional status and reduced morbidity from childhood illnesses.
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