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One Patient Global Health Initiative

Transforming Lives . . One Patient At A Time®

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We Are A Nonprofit Organization Committed To Providing Resources For Accessible Healthcare In Underserved Populations, Without Discrimination And Regardless Of Ability To Pay.

OUR PATIENTS

After seeing patients unable to get basic health care services, partners Dr. Karla Ivankovich and Dr. Daniel Ivankovich decided to lead the charge and change the landscape of healthcare by co-founding OnePatient Global Health Initiative, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization designed to establish sustainable programs of outreach, prevention and patient education at multiple locations throughout the disparate areas of Chicago as well as Haiti.

With community and faith based based initiatives they strive to improve health outcomes in some of the poorest communities by removing barriers to access and implementing healthcare services OnePatient at a time.

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EPISODE 37 - October 22, 2021

Mixing heroin with driving is a really bad idea As the weather warms up, I know that people are ready to get out and about after 3 months of COVID sheltering in place. But just because it’s getting warm outside, doesn’t mean that you need to leave your common sense at home.

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EPISODE 38 - November 5, 2021

Fifth Covid Surge approaches as Thanksgiving travel plans ramp up.

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EPISODE 39 -November 15, 2021

Second person naturally cured of HIV. Which means that the woman, who they are calling the “Esperanza Patient” to protect her privacy, appears to have eradicated the deadly virus from her body without the help of drugs or a bone marrow transplant — which would make her only the second person believed to have cured herself of HIV, without drugs or any other treatment.

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What We Do

There are many barriers to obtaining necessary health services including poverty, language barriers, access to transportation, exorbitant parking fees and provider bias. Additionally, few options exist for the uninsured to access primary health care other than hospital emergency rooms, which contributes to the skyrocketing cost of healthcare.

We refer patients to resources dedicated to providing cost effective alternatives through our network of partners at the local, national and global levels. What began as a one surgeon, 15-patient initiative has grown into a multi-disciplinary group of specialists who believe in the principles of compassionate care – orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, physiatrists, internists, pain medicine specialists, physician’s assistants, and many other compassionate providers.

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Bazelais Suy - “The Long Road Home"

Half-buried in rubble, Bazelais Suy struggled to breathe — a dead woman lay on his chest. He knew he had to get her off, fast. Because he could still move his arms, he somehow managed to remove his belt, loop it around the woman’s own belt and drag her off. But his legs were still pinned.

In the ruins of a flattened, five-story university building, he was surrounded by survivors and corpses — students crushed in Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake.

Suy, leader of an activist group working to help Haiti’s youth lift their homeland out of poverty, was climbing the stairs to a fifth-floor classroom when the building at the University of Port-Au-Prince began to shake. In seconds, the structure collapsed, and the 28-year-old Suy tumbled four floors below.

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Mike Williams - “Nobody Walks Alone"

TWO HOURS BEFORE MIDNIGHT on Nov. 28, 2009, Michael Williams rises from his chair at Club 426, a Caribbean nightclub outside Atlanta. The bouncer wears a black shirt, black jeans, black shoes. A co-worker opens the door and lets in the first wave of people. The deejay steps into his booth. Williams crosses himself and prays, “The blood of Christ cover me. Dear Lord, don’t let me die by the hands of some punk with a gun.”

Williams is one of the lucky ones who made it out of Roseland, the violent, destitute neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Though he looks like a former football player — he stands 6’9″, 300 pounds — basketball had been his game. He dominated the post in college, played a little in the NBA, had a good career in Europe. Nickname: Massive Mike. Now 46, he’s spent the past decade working security, mostly as a bodyguard for stars such as Snoop Dogg and Beyonce.

Around 2 a.m., with an hour of work left, Williams rotates toward the speakers near the door. The club is packed with people singing, sweating, gyrating. Reggae music plays at full blast. Williams adjusts his earplugs. Then he notices two men shouting near the entrance. They start shoving each other. One throws his beer bottle, which shatters on the floor. Williams moves in.

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Victoria Harbin

Dan Ivankovich recently gave Victoria Harbin something that dozens of other orthopedic surgeons wouldn’t: an appointment.
During a half-hour surgery last week, the surgeon relieved a painful condition in the 44-year-old patient’s hand that prevented her from straightening her middle finger and thumb.

Medicaid, the state health plan for the indigent, will pay Dr. Ivankovich about $525—a fraction of what he’d get from a private insurer.
“Medicaid is like a four-letter word for most doctors,” he says.
“They don’t want it.”

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