AIC-CURE Children's Hospital

AIC-CURE Children's Hospital is one of the leading specialty hospitals in East Africa. AIC-CURE is a 30-bed, pediatric orthopedic hospital devoted to serving the physically disabled children of Kenya as well as training new Kenya orthopedic surgeons. The hospital originally opened in 1998 as AIC Bethany Crippled Children’s Centre of Kenya. The hospital name was changed in early 2006 to AIC-CURE International Children's Hospital (AIC-CURE) to better reflect the partnership between Africa Inland Church and CURE International and the scope of its services.

AIC-CURE was built and is managed by Cure International of Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. CURE is one of the largest international providers of surgical and rehabilitation services for children in developing countries. AIC-CURE was built as a collaborative effort between CURE and the African Inland Church (AIC) in order to serve both the medical and spiritual needs of children in Kenya. The primary medical goal of AIC-CURE is provide “first world” quality care to the children of Kenya, and also to teach Kenyan physicians and nurses in pediatric rehabilitation medicine. AIC-CURE provides Orthopedic, Plastic and ENT surgery to children 18 and younger. Children with clubfoot, polio, effects from TB of the spine, congenital conditions such as scoliosis and osteogenesis imperfecta and burn contractures are served at the hospital. In addition, three times a year a team of ENT specialists from the U.S. visit the hospital to teach cases such as cleft lip and palates. In 2004, Dr. Dick Bransford moved the hydrocephalus and neurosurgery patients over to Kijabe Hospital, opening a new unit called Bethany Kids at Kijabe Hospital. This has enabled AIC-CURE to focus primarily on orthopedic patients, while hydrocephalus patients are still able to receive care.