Global Emergency Care Collaborative

The mission of Global Emergency Care Collaborative (GECC) is to improve health by creating or improving access to quality emergency care in the developing world.  Founded in 2008, GECC has successfully established an Emergency Department at a rural district hospital in Uganda, developed a curriculum on emergency care, and trained a cadre of emergency care specialists – Emergency Nurse Practitioners.  The first $10,000 grant from the AllPeopleBeHappy foundation in 2010 was used to train a new group of ENPs by these specialists.  The second $10,000 grant in 2011 was used to train the third class of the now renamed Emergency Care Practitioners (ECP).  Each ECP sees about 900 trauma patients per year, so the training of more ECPs can dramatically improve the quality of care for trauma patients.  The third $10,000 grant in 2012-2013 is being used to fund the Prehospital Emergency Resources (PER) program – a 4-part project of community and clinic education on recognition of acute illnesses and utilization of available health services.   (www.globalemergencycare.org)