From the apartment beneath her home - to donated space in the Son Rise Calvary Church in Sandy Bay - Peggy Stranges has given her life to building Clínica Esperanza, otherwise known as "Hospital Ms. Peggy." Together, with Honduran physician Raymond Cherington, M.D. and Arizona-based physician Patrick Connell, M.D., and through the generous support from Roatán's community leaders, Ms. Peggy has realized her dream of building a first class freestanding hospital.
Open five days a week, the Clínica Esperanza serves over 150 patients a week for acute and chronic illnesses ranging from hypertension, diabetes, malaria, and a variety of breaks, scrapes and bruises.
Over the years, Clínica Esperanza has also attracted an amazing and talented cast of volunteer physicians, nurses, miscellaneous students, social workers, public health experts and researchers, including two Fulbright scholars.
Obtaining funds for long term success is the Clinic's biggest challenge. Ms. Peggy and her team erected a freestanding building in 2007 - the first phase of a planned two building endeavor that will provide outpatient primary care, urgent care, inpatient treatment, pre-natal and dental services. Clínica Esperanza will need $250,000 annually to continue. Hospitals and clinics in the developing world often fail because they are unable to attract sufficient operation funding for long term survival. This will not happen here. We have formed a Honduran NGO and developed a long-term governance plan including a number of local leaders and medical providers.
CLINICA ESPERANZA, ABOVE ALL, IS A CLINIC OF AND FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE BAY ISLANDS.
Patients await care outside Clínica Esperanza
Peggy Stranges, RN and Raymond Cherington, M.D.
Patrick N. Connell, M.D. provides in-home services to a Roatán resident
