Medical Missions For Children Partners With National Educational Video, Inc.
Leading provider of continuing education for nurses and healthcare assistants to provide material for Medical Missions for Children's Global Telemedicine & Teaching Network
Paterson, New Jersey, July 7, 2005 – Medical Missions for Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to elevating the quality of care for seriously ill children in underserved communities around the world, today announced that it is partnering with National Educational Video, Inc. (NEVCO®), a leading provider of continuing education for professional nurses and healthcare assistants throughout the United States. NEVCO is providing Medical Missions for Children a number of video-based educational programs to be broadcast on Medical Missions for Children's Global Telemedicine & Teaching Network™.
NEVCO's programming, broadcast via the Global Telemedicine & Teaching Network's satellite broadcast network, WMBC, includes material on cardiovascular nursing, diabetes and HIV/AIDS nursing. The programming is designed to educate nurses, physicians and other healthcare providers in developing countries. Medical Missions for Children's Global Telemedicine & Teaching Network is a satellite and Internet-based communications platform.
"We are excited to provide Medical Missions for Children materials to help the organization educate healthcare providers in truly underserved countries," said Ted Wolfendale, chief executive officer, National Educational Video. "There is a growing need for quality educational materials and we understand how important it is to provide them to the physicians and nurses who need them most. By partnering with Medical Missions for Children, we believe we can have an important impact on the health and welfare of children around the world."
"This is an important milestone in the development of our satellite broadcast medical education program," said Frank Brady, founder and chairman of the board, Medical Missions for Children. "NEVCO's support will enable us to broaden our educational offerings and expand our efforts to provide the most robust, exhaustive medical education program available at no cost to underserved physicians and nurses."
Medical Missions for Children and its Global Telemedicine & Teaching Network™ helps critically ill children in underserved communities around the world. Through an extensive videoconferencing network, Medical Missions for Children supports the real-time treatment of remote, critically ill children. In addition, utilizing its fully FCC licensed broadcast station, WMBC, and expansive digital video library, transmits worldwide an on-going program of continuing medical education to physicians, nurses, medical students and hospital administrators.
Medical Missions for Children's global network encompasses pediatric healthcare facilities in 36 medically underserved countries and the volunteer services of 26 tier-one U.S.-based and four international medical institutions. Since the organization was founded, more than 23,500 children have been helped. Medical Missions for Children continues to work toward its goal of touching the lives of over one million children each year. |