Bruce Compton

[Bruce Compton @bcomp10]

Rethinking Global Health Partnerships: Embracing the Four Es @TheCHAUSA https://t.co/VEGw9ZEtaN Progress

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

Read the latest dispatch from @bcomp10, who is visiting #Ukraine 🇺🇦 to check on the efforts of a #Catholic relief working group consisting of @CMMBTweets, @MissionOutreach and @ICMC_news. 👉https://t.co/5FPADgoufh

#GlobalHealth #PrayForUkraine #healthcare

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

CHA's @bcomp10 is on his second trip to #Ukraine since the Russian invasion as part of a #Catholic relief group checking on results of their efforts there. Read his diary: https://t.co/HUdJoS082b

#healthcare #GlobalHealth #PrayForUkraine 🇺🇦
@CMMBTweets @HospSistersHS @ICMC_news

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

#LiveFromUkraine 🇺🇦: @bobvitillo's organization — @ICMC_news — has been providing psychosocial & #MentalHealth support & #healthcare worker training. Massive investments are having massive impact in Ukraine, especially in rural areas.

#PrayForUkraine #CatholicHealth

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

#LiveFromUkraine 🇺🇦: Dr. Ivan Budzan, a military surgeon in Ukraine, thanked the Catholic Response for Ukraine (#CR4U) working group for its continuous support of his hospital and patients. “It’s made us all much stronger,” he said.

#PrayForUkraine #CatholicHealth

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

#LiveFromUkraine 🇺🇦: Christian Kostko from the Catholic Response for Ukraine (#CR4U) gave an update on the current situation of #hospitals in Ukraine and on the partners he has visited who are funded through the @ICMC_news

#PrayForUkraine #CatholicHealth

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

#LiveFromUkraine 🇺🇦: Erica Smith from #HospitalSistersMissionOutreach said that managing #donations during an acute crisis is an especially complex process and when donations are handled responsibly, costs and shipping delays are reduced.

#PrayForUkraine #CatholicHealth

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

Live from #Ukraine 🇺🇦! CHA Sr. Director of #GlobalHealth @bcomp10 welcomes speakers from the Catholic Response for Ukraine working group: Erica Smith from #HospitalSistersMissionOutreach, Christian Kostko from #CR4U and Msgr. @bobvitillo from @ICMC_news.

#PrayForUkraine

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

.@HospSistersHS Mission Outreach's Erica Smith and @ICMC_news' @bobvitillo join us Oct. 26 from #Ukraine 🇺🇦 to give insights into issues shaping Ukraine's #medical and #MentalHealth care today. Learn more and register: 👉 https://t.co/Ny1vUTXL72

#CatholicHealth #GlobalHealth

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

In this #CHAHealthCalls episode, Erica Smith of #HospitalSistersMissionOutreach & CHA's @bcomp10 discuss developing partnerships that focus on lessening #environmental impacts and how to effectively donate material goods. ⏩ Listen at https://t.co/ZgeIwsBTvY.

#CatholicHealth

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

CHA Board of Trustees Vice Chair & @HospSistersHS President and CEO Damond Boatwright joined CHA's @bcomp10, the @KofC, and @PaprockiBishop of @diospringfield in blessing a shipment of medical supplies being sent from #HospitalSistersMissionOutreach to #Ukraine.

#PrayforUkraine

[CatholicHealthAssoc @TheCHAUSA]

Next week on our #CHAHealthCalls #podcast, CHA's @BrianPReardon (left), and @bcomp10 discuss Bruce’s recent visit to #Ukraine and how #CatholicHealth care can continue to meaningfully partner with organizations in Ukraine. You won’t want to miss it! https://t.co/OmX0AwLDvY

[Bruce Compton @bcomp10]

@TheCHAUSA

[Msgr. Robert Vitillo @bobvitillo]

Tetiana and military chaplain, Fr. Oleg, say that soldiers bring the remains of war to the parish’s military museum and try to leave some of their pain along with these objects of harm and death. Bruce Compton, of CHA-USA, and I look on with tears in our hearts and minds

[Bruce Compton @bcomp10]

@TheCHAUSA

[Msgr. Robert Vitillo @bobvitillo]

In one small town, Zolochiv, we visited with a very active parish community that seemed totally engaged in including physically and intellectually challenged people on parish and civic life. Also, it is a base fir Knights of Columbus support to displaced people.

[Bruce Compton @bcomp10]

@TheCHAUSA

[Msgr. Robert Vitillo @bobvitillo]

Today there is a general alert throughout the country. Do we really want to be on highways all day long??? Wouldn’t be better to stay in one of the ubiquitous bomb shelters on every corner and in every parish church????

[Bruce Compton @bcomp10]

@TheCHAUSA

[Msgr. Robert Vitillo @bobvitillo]

While in Kyiv on 9 March, we were received by the Pope’s Ambassador to Ukraine. He and the Polish Ambassador were the only 2 top diplomats who did not leave Kyiv on va 25 Feb. 2024. He works tirelessly to help the local Church serve those most in need and promote peace

[Bruce Compton @bcomp10]

@TheCHAUSA

[Msgr. Robert Vitillo @bobvitillo]

The Papal Nuncio showed us a piece if shrapnel from a rocket attack on the Roman Catholic seminary near Kyiv. He also displays on his living room the copy of a charred Bible found in a child’s bedroom of a bombed home. This “relic” reminds us of war’s horrors.

[Msgr. Robert Vitillo @bobvitillo]

We visited a family that had lived in 3 buildings on the property for 4 generations. They lost everything in a bombing if their residential area and struggle to rebuild at least one house. The matriarch begged “tell the world what they have done” amidst ashes flowers were growing

[Bruce Compton @bcomp10]

@TheCHAUSA

[Msgr. Robert Vitillo @bobvitillo]

Yesterday, we headed into the mountain town of Kosiv, where we visited an intensive trauma treatment workshop for returning military and their families, which was supported by ICMC. Participants were engaged in sharing deep reactions to violence of war and rebuilding family bonds

[Msgr. Robert Vitillo @bobvitillo]

Not even two days later that town was hit by invading rockets and 5 people were killed. May they rest on peace and may God comfort those in mourning, wounded, and made homeless. Then on to Kyiv. As we approached, I was shocked to see how close the invaders got to the capital city