beyond the clinic

Healing Vessels International

The charitable ecosystem behind AthleticsMD®

AthleticsMD® was never meant to end at the clinic door. Revenue and clinical expertise from our Columbia and Laurel locations flow into Healing Vessels International, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that connects three sister organizations: Global Surgery University, Chinedozi Hospitals and Healthcare International, and Omnipresent Church. Here is how the pieces fit.

The Healing Vessels ecosystem Three overlapping circles labeled Global Surgery University, Chinedozi Hospitals and Healthcare International, and Omnipresent Church. Healing Vessels International sits in the center where all three overlap. Beneath them, AthleticsMD feeds the system with clinical revenue, evidence, and workforce. Global Surgery University TRAINS Chinedozi Hospitals & Healthcare Intl BUILDS Omnipresent Church MINISTERS trained workforce teaching as ministry whole-person care Healing Vessels International 501(c)(3) charitable hub AthleticsMD® clinical revenue · evidence · workforce
Where the circles overlap, Healing Vessels International funds and coordinates the work. The engine underneath is AthleticsMD®.

Healing Vessels International

VISION

Healing that reaches the communities medicine has passed over.

FUNCTION

The charitable hub. Healing Vessels International receives and stewards philanthropic gifts, serves as fiscal sponsor for physician-led community health initiatives in Maryland and abroad, and houses Global Surgery University. Grants, donations, and mission partnerships move through HVI. EIN 45-2454543.

Global Surgery University

VISION

Safe surgery on every continent, taught by the people who live there.

FUNCTION

The teaching arm. GSU trains nurses, anesthetists, and surgical teams in low-resource settings. Working alongside the Johns Hopkins Global Alliance of Perioperative Professionals, its faculty have trained roughly 200 providers at partner hospitals in Liberia and The Gambia since 2022.

Chinedozi Hospitals and Healthcare International

VISION

World-class hospitals built, owned, and staffed on African soil.

FUNCTION

The infrastructure arm. CHHI develops hospital projects across Africa, beginning in Nigeria, and translates the clinical standards proven at AthleticsMD® into facilities designed to outlast their founders.

Omnipresent Church

VISION

Every Home a Sanctuary · Every Gift a Calling.

FUNCTION

The spiritual arm. Omnipresent Church offers worship, chaplaincy, and pastoral care that treats faith as part of healing rather than an afterthought. It holds the ecosystem to its founding conviction: health is more than the absence of disease.

How AthleticsMD® powers the work

AthleticsMD® is the engine room. As Maryland's first independent Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility, our clinics produce three things the mission cannot run without: revenue, evidence, and people. Margin from patient care underwrites Healing Vessels International's charitable programs. Protocols refined in our PREOOP™ surgical prehabilitation and medical weight loss programs become Global Surgery University curriculum. And the CORF operating model itself becomes the blueprint CHHI adapts for hospitals abroad.


A patient who books a same-day sick visit in Laurel is, without knowing it, helping train a scrub nurse in Monrovia and plan a hospital ward in Nigeria.  Care here funds care everywhere. That is the design.


1st

independent CORF in Maryland

2

clinics: Columbia and Laurel, MD

≈200

providers trained in West Africa since 2022

4

organizations, one mission

Healing Vessels International is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, EIN 45-2454543. Contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.