Armenian American Wellness Activities and Accomplishments

Today, the Wellness Center’s expanded activities include:

• public education campaigns focused on preventive care, including the annual Health Walk (in Yerevan) in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month;
• healthcare services in gynecology, pathology and family medicine;
• free medical services provided to patients unable to pay the Center’s already modest fees;
• satellite clinic to provide increased access to the Center’s services;
• medical outreach missions to remote areas.

The Center’s accomplishments include:

• close to 100,000 patients screened for breast and cervical cancer, with 3,000+ lives saved through early detection;
• over 45 medical exchanges between the US and Armenia;
• partnerships formed with US-based NGOs and professionals from major medical institutions in the US (USC, Washington Hospital Center, George Washington Medical University, Greater Baltimore Medical Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins, and others);
• Western-style accountability and transparency in a corruption- free workplace, which has won the trust of the public and the respect of the medical community.