FL S2200

Recognizes Barth A. Green, M.D., for cofounding Project Medishare for Haiti in 1994 to improve health status through community development, serving over 85,000 Haitians before the 2010 earthquake

Acknowledges Green as cofounder of the University of Miami's Global Institute for Community Health and Development, focused on improving health care and community development in the Western Hemisphere

Honors the field hospital established by Green and colleagues following the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which treated over 30,000 patients, performed more than 1,500 emergency surgeries, and served as the only severe critical care and trauma referral center in Haiti

Notes that over 5,000 rotating medical volunteers from around the world served at the field hospital, and 45,000 additional patients have been treated since relocation to Hospital Bernard Mevs in Port-au-Prince

Directs presentation of an official Senate resolution to Green as recognition of his humanitarian efforts in providing medical care to Haiti