Hospital Albert Schweitzer Background

HAS was established in 1954 by Dr. Larimer Mellon and his wife Gwen Grant Mellon.

Dr. Mellon had the hospital designed as a state-of-the-art tropical hospital with approximately 125 beds. The hospital has been expanded and reorganized several times over the past 50 years and now provides surgical, pharmaceutical, and clinical services to an area of approximately 300 square miles in the Artibonite valley region and over 300,000 people.

A large portion of Dr. Mellon’s work also included outreach to the surrounding communities for familyhealth and community development.

Dr. Mellon planned and constructed several spring box collection systems for the hospital and surrounding communities and multiple open channel irrigation systems during his over 30 years of work in the valley.