Build Health International (BHI)

Build Health International (BHI) is also a new equipment procurement partner. We are proud to have BHI as a core partner. Their extensive experience in equipping operating rooms, Neonatal Intensive Care Units and laboratories will allow us to complete more complex projects.

Background: Jim Ansara, CEO & Executive Director of BHI, previously led one of the largest design and construction companies in the United States. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, at the request of Partners In Health (PIH) and the Haitian Ministry of Health, Jim agreed to work full time with PIH to design and build a new 300 bed tertiary care teaching hospital, the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais (HUM).

After the HUM project, Jim and BHI, designed, constructed and equipped a “model” 80 bed hospital —St. Boniface Hospital in southwest Haiti.  Recently they added a new, two-level surgical center with three operating rooms and a ten-bed PACU at St. Boniface.

In addition to their work in Haiti, BHI has extensive experience in Africa and is currently working with PIH  in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Malawi and Rwanda.

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