McCord Zulu Hospital
Hospital in Durban, South Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
McCord's Hospital, originally McCord Zulu Hospital, is a hospital in Durban, South Africa.
It was founded "for the Zulu", by American Christian missionaries, physician Dr. James Bennett McCord and Margaret Mellen McCord, in 1909.[1]
McCord Hospital shut down after 104 years in 2013 due to budget cuts by the local government.[2]
Sinikithema HIV/AIDS Clinic
McCord Hospital's Sinikithemba HIV clinic was a President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief site in South Africa that treated provided antiretrovirals to both adults and children.[3][4]
The Sinikithemba HIV clinic was one of the first PEPFAR sites to build an electronic medical record.[5] The EMR system identified that nonpregnant women with an elevated mean body mass index (BMI) on the HIV antiretroviral stavudine were at a higher risk of developing lactic acidosis.[6]
Several implementation studies were published documenting McCord Hospitals HIV antiretroviral cohorts in prestigious international journals.[7] The Sinikithema family centered model was also featured in a letter to the editor in The New York Times[8]
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