2017 Annual Report (retina)

2017 ANNUAL REPORT

TABLE OF CON TEN TS

03 Our Mission
05 A Message from Our Board Chair & Executive Director
07 2017 Relief in Numbers
09 Iraq
13 Dominica
17 In the Spotlight
19 Financials
23 Our Team
24 Thank You

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OUR MISSION

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NYC Medics rapidly deploys to remote and difficult to reach areas in disaster
zones and complex humanitarian emergencies providing the highest level of

medical care with dignity, integrity and compassion to people who would
otherwise not have access to aid and relief efforts.

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A MESS&AEGXEEFCRUOTMIAVOENUDNRIRUBECAOTALORRMD CEHSASIRAGE

A Year of First s for NYCMedics

W hat an eventful year for NYCMedics! In 2017, NYCMedics Throughout this year of firsts, we witnessed the enormous
deployed more volunteers than any previous year, need for forward, front line care in cand remote medical
operated field clinics for more consecutive days than ever care in disasters. Every day, people living in disaster
before, worked in a conflict zone for the first time, affected parts of the world suffer needlessly despite the
coordinated a patient referral system for the first time, and billions of dollars spent on aid because inadequate
operated multiple simultaneous programs in different attention is given to populations labeled as ?inaccessible.?
countries for the first time.
At NYCMedics, we believe that we can access inaccessible
Despite all of these ?firsts,?NYCMedics stayed true to its populations, providing disaster relief when and where it is
model of delivering care to the most difficult to access needed most. The tireless efforts of our volunteers and the
populations in a disaster or complex emergency. In Iraq, generous support of our donors made this belief a reality in
this involved deploying mobile trauma teams near the front 2017. And we believe that, with your support, the
line of the Battle for Mosul, where patients were able to NYCMedics story will continue to grow, encompassing
receive care in the crucial initial minutes after their injuries, more lives saved in all corners of the world.
rather than having to wait hours to reach far away field
hospitals. Steve Muth Tim Tan, MD
Chair, Board of Directors Acting Executive Director
In Dominica, this meant using our tested and proven model
of mobile medical teams to serve patients wherever the
need for medical care was greatest.

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2017 R E L I E F IN N U M B E R S

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2 11 6

HUMANITARIAN ISOLATED COM M UNITIES HEALTH FACILITY
EMERGENCIES SERVED ASSESSM ENTS

13 3,725 1,493

M OBILE CLINIC PATIENTS SERVED MEDICAL REFERRALS
RELOCATI ON S

171 1,539,193 35,488

VOLUNTEERS DEPLOYED VALUE OF VOLUNTEER AID VOLUNTEER HOURS

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IRAQ

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5,787 Responding to a Conflict

MILES FROM NYC In December 2016, The World Health Organization (WHO) made an urgent request for
assistance for the conflict in Iraq. NYC Medics immediately acted and by January of 2017
2,655 we were working as an implementing partner .

PATIENTS SERVED Throughout 2017, we operated a Trauma Stabilization Point (TSP) behind the front line of
the offensives in Mosul, Tal ?Afar and Hawija filling a critical gap in the response efforts.
344 TSPs were the first point of medical contact with gravely injured people providing vital
trauma care and stabilization, readying patients for transport to a receiving hospital for
DAYS higher level medical or surgical care. The NYC Medics TSP was continually staffed and
operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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As a mobile unit, our TSP relocated seven times in effort to maintain a close proximity to
VOLUN TEERS the front and intervene in the 'Golden Hour ?providing rapid evaluation and
resuscitation. The majority of patients were evaluated, triaged, treated, and
dispositioned to receiving facilities within 15 minutes of arriving. With NYC Medics TSP
located between the front lines and the distant field hospitals, our volunteers provided
life-saving care to more than 2,600 patients.

Additionally, NYC Medics coordinated all TSPs and prehospital care and successfully
implemented a referral coordination system that managed over 1,600 patient transfers.
NYC Medics played an integral part in the day-to-day management of patient transfers
between field hospitals and from field hospitals to tertiary referral hospitals, helping to
smooth the communication between various partner organizations and serving as a
centralized focal point for referrals. Through this referral coordination, NYC Medics
helped to ensure that patients were brought to the hospitals best suited to caring for
their specific needs, that patient distribution throughout the field hospital system was
equitable especially during mass casualty incidents, and that patient movements from
facility to facility occurred as smoothly as possible, with obstacles identified and
addressed in real-time.

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IT'S DIFFERENT W ITH A CHILD

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Our team had been in Mosul nearly a month, since The coalition military hospital, only a half hour drive,
mid-February, when the offensive started. We treated couldn?t take the girl, nor could the Doctors W ithout
mostly soldiers in the beginning, many of them critical, Borders facility, an hour away. Our only option was the
but as the fighting moved deeper into the city, freeing Samaritan?s Purse Hospital, a 90 minute odyssey over
those trapped inside, we began to see more civilians.
On our last night, an entire family was brought in, all of wretched, war ravaged roads.
them shot by ISIS snipers as they tried to flee the city.
We were determined to keep the family together, and
The mother had been hit in the leg, her ten year old so we lay the mother on the floor of the ambulance.
son in the arm, and the father, who?d only been The girl went on the cot, and the brother and father

grazed, carried his four year old daughter into our sat on the bench.
clinic, and laid her on the cot. From the paleness of
Our team members had been told not to ride in the
her face, and the distance in her gaze, we knew ambulances, that it was too dangerous, but with
immediately that she was our highest priority.
critical patients we always did. Nurses Jon Caron and
The high caliber bullet had entered her pelvis, Kelly Hanzlik climbed into what little space remained,
shattering the bone and causing massive bleeding.
Two team members rushed in to start IVs and push and kept the girl alive for the trip, titrating fluid and
fluid into her draining arteries. Another two packed her ketamine until they arrived at Samaritan?s Purse.

wounds, while another prepared painkillers and We heard later that the little girl survived the
antibiotics. After a month of working together, operation, and, with her family, was heading to Erbil
stabilizing hundreds of gunshot victims, all of them in for further surgery. Our team left the next morning,
and out in fifteen minutes, we knew exactly what to another team there to take our place. As we drove
do, each one filling a role. But of course it?s different away another ambulance pulled in. We watched out
the back window of our truck, at the perpetual plumes
with a child.
of smoke over Mosul.
The pale little girl didn?t make a sound, just stared at
the ceiling while our interpreter, another Mosul -Joe Connelly Volunteer EMT-P,

refugee, told her how brave she was. As we worked to
raise her blood pressure, our director, Katherine

Bequary, was on the phone with the nearest hospitals,
her job as important as ours, to find one with an open

and ready operating theater.

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IRAQ

DOM I N I CA

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1,904 Responding to Hurricane Maria

MILES FROM NYC From September 29-October 23, NYC Medics
volunteers were on the ground in Dominica
673 providing emergency and primary medical care to a
population in great need. According to the
PATIENTS SERVED Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management
Agency (CDEMA), less than half of the hospitals and
24 clinics were operating in Dominica following the
storm, Hurricane Maria. The Pan American Health
DAYS Organization (PAHO) requested a response for
medical assistance and NYC Medics immediately
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doctors, physician assistants, nurses, and
VOLUN TEERS paramedics to provide relief. The teams cared for
nearly 700 patients and assisted in 6 facility
assessments to ensure the island?s clinics and
hospitals were able to re-open. The mobile teams
traveled throughout the island providing care in
Roseau, Trafalgar, San Sauveur, Morne Prosper,
Marigot, and Pointe Michel. The mobility and
flexibility of the NYCMedics teams allowed for the
care of hundreds of patients who would have had
difficulty reaching the operating health facilities.

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CARE BEYOND THE CLINIC

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One memorable story I will share was the patient things. He came back out so excited with two small
Neville* who had visited Princess Margaret Hospital plastic bags and said ?here are the gifts I?ve made for
with his daughter for his symptoms. He was hunching
over grasping himself and constantly telling any staff you. Please share this with your team?. We were
who would pass by his symptoms and that he would shocked, excited, and just stoked. He kept throwing in
little trinkets and overfilled our hands beyond what we
like to lay down. His daughter calm and quiet just
absorbing the whole situation sitting beside her father. had expected. He showed us his families living
He had his symptoms improved and was sent home. situation in which his shop a 10×10 space filled with
items and two sleeping cushions were his family of 4
Again, the next day he came complaining of the exact
same symptoms and MD Tim Greene gave him the was staying due to his home being destroyed.
same treatment that MD Anna Yaffee had given
yesterday. Today he was with his daughter again and Here this man, giving what little he has and likely his
laying on her lap to find rest. Our goal was symptom only source of income after the hurricane. Granted
treatment. We relieved his symptoms again and he there is likely no tourism for a while. W ith what little he
was so thankful for the kindness and medicine we had with his family he was so willing to give so much
have given him. He was so happy just to see us there to make our day and show his thanks. He blew us

at the hospital from a different country caring. He had away and made us question what we consider
even offered that we should go to his souvenir shop important in life. All we did was do our job as an MD
downtown and he had some parting gifts for us. We and RN. We didn?t cure him but we attempted our
joked that we would visit and were not quite sure if he best to relieve his suffering. And for this, it was all he
needed to say that he had hope from our presence.
was serious. And if anything, that was the greatest piece I got out
of this trip. That there is hope for humanity and that
Myself and Tim later the next day attempted to try to
find Neville?s* souvenir shop with no luck. We figured people care.
it was a moot cause and we would be leaving without
NYCMedics Volunteer RN Kevin So
saying hi to him. As we made our way out of
downtown a man sees Tim and sure enough it is *name changed
Neville*. So excited he leads us to his souvenir shop
which we had totally missed. We meet his wife, son,
and same daughter who was with him. He had a small
4×3 foot table with souvenir trinkets laid out consisting
of bracelets, pins, flags, soaps, and other Dominica

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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

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CBS highlights the work of NYC Medics' volunteers on the front A profile on NYCMedics in Albu Saif, Iraq. CNN film crew
lines. Holly Williams and her film crew visited the NYCMedics TSP visited the TSP and interviewed Physician's Assistant, Jeff
in Mosul, Iraq and interviewed critical care nurse volunteer, Kyle Evans.
Fleher, and NYCMedics Acting Global Programs Director, Kathy
Bequary.

Amy Russo interviews NYCMedics Director of Operations, Phil A spotlight on NYCMedics in Mosul, Iraq. Los Angeles
Suarez, for a profile of NYCMedics humanitarian missions. Times reporter and photographer visited the TSP.

Jannie Schipper details the work of NYCMedics volunteers while Ari Shapiro and Jane Arraf of NPR interviewed NYCMedics
writing about the ethics of medicine. volunteers for 'All Things Considered' on NPR.

EMSWORLD featuring the submission by NYCMedics volunteer, The Bulletin of Bend Oregon highlights the work of NYC
Joe Connelly, EMT-P. and his experience working in the Medics' volunteers, Dr. Woody Peebles and his work in the
NYCMedics TSP in Al-Arij, Iraq. NYCMedics TSP during the battle for Mosul.

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FI N AN CI AL S

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1,802,327.06

RAISED IN 2017

1,699,501.83

INVESTED IN NYCMEDICS MISSION IN 2017

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REVEN UE

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EXPEN SES

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O U R TEA M

STAFF Kat h y Bequ ar y Ph il Su ar ez San dy Ber k ow it z

Tim Tan Acting Director of Director of Operations Creative Director
Global Programs
Medical Director M on iqu e Fr an cois
Acting Executive Director Ch r is Su m m er s
Operations Coordinator
Jak e Du t t on Clinical Coordinator

Volunteer Coordinator

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Al Kim ADVISORY COUNCIL

St eve M u t h Board Member Cr aig Kr avit
Director, Westchester EMS
Chairman of the Board Founder, iVision International LLC
Co-Founder, voicethread.com
Er ic Gr u n bau m
Daniel Blum Pen n y Nef er is
Founder, TBWA/Media Arts Lab
Board Member Board Member

President, Phelps Memorial Hospital Director of Business Continuity

& Emergency Response, JetBlue

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THAN K YOU

Zainab Al Shamma Linda Brewer Eat Offbeat Timothy Greene
Jeffrey Brewster Gil Eggleston Belinda Gull
Thomas Anarumo Jessica Brookins Joyce Eisman Faiza Hadi
Robert Andrews Claudia Brown Peter Emblad M.D. Jeffrey Hahne
Sarah Buckley Diane Evans
Shirley Ariker Merry Beth and Jeff Evans David Heitman
M. Arzuaga Nancy Buley Michael Falk Sharon Himsl
Sandeep Asokan Michael Butler Jonathan Hodgdon
Fariha Atmar Betsy Fine Eric Holden
Heidi Attenberger August Byllott Tsion Firew Holloway Family Foundation
Yaca Attwood Nina Forrest James Holmes
James A Barrett Barry Callenberger Monique Francois Edward Hopkinson
Paul Bateman Rowena Chao Timothy Frumkes Matt Hudson
Brad Becker Melinda Chin Elizabeth Gaffney Peter Jackson
Katherine L. Bequary Denise Chuang Ane Georgieades
Barbara Berkowitz Pamela Gibbons Jet Blu e
Bessemer Trust Charles Clayman Tate Gieselmann Jackie Julty
Daniel Blum Janice Crosby Michael Ginese Stacy Kaufman
Michal Bowers Eileen Deignan Syzana Gjokaj Keith Kay
Patricia Bowers Gary Gorham Nancy Keyes
Pearl Brady Elizabeth Dellavecchia Roland Green
Brenne Whiskey Peter Denton Shu Kim
Celia Bressack 24 Jason Kimm
Jeannie Diefenderfer
Mia Diefenderfer
Mary Downs-Last
Stephanie Dutton

THAN K YOU

Mike King Harman Laurie C. Nelson Sylviane Rough Cyril Thomas
Sean Kivlehan Amy Thompson
James Klein Kari Nephin Jessica Rubin
Lauren Kovacs Casey Tofilon
Clover Lalehzar Nina Ng Bernadette Ruggiero Oday Toma
Lora Lomuscio Cheron Tomkins
Lorence Long Olivia Nicastro Emily Schaffer Transmitter Brewing
Edward Turcotte
Lori Lucas Darren North Michael Sellman
TV
Drew Luellen Russell Offenbach Kim Seserman Van Brunt Stillhouse
Maison Cubi
Mark Mandell Kathleen O'Hara Amanita Setari VoiceThread
Celia McCallson KC Walsh
Mary McDonald One Today Sit Means Sit
John McGlade Monica Weiss
Brian McGovern Susan Ann Owler Edward W. Snowdon Jr. Fr. Timothy F Whalen

John Metcalfe Nancy and Doug Paterson Helmut Snyder Julie Williams
Lucy Winton
Aaron Mindel Will Payne Jonathan Sobel Kamela Wolf
Rebecca Minier Hayes Wong
Carole Montgomery Daniel Pennypacker Mitchel Sobel
William Moriarty Kevin Zajc
Davis Perkins David Solinger Samuel Zidovetski
Steve Muth
Jon Persson Raymond Solinger

Chakorn Phisuthikul John Stanmeyer

Michael Quick Stewart Title Associates

Jerry Raustiala Phil Suarez

Jaheera Rehmat Chris Summers

Ann Reid Timothy Tan M.D.

William Rogers Minerva Taylor

Barry Rosenthal Jay Thiele

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