A Project of Christian Health Service Corps

Building Christ-Centered Healthcare for the Lago de Yojoa Region of Honduras

Hospital Yojoa is a Christ-centered mission teaching hospital rising near Santa Cruz de Yojoa, bringing safe maternal, newborn, emergency, and women’s surgical care within reach of roughly 253,000 people.

“He sent them to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.”
LUKE 9:2

The Need

When poverty and distance become a health emergency

In Honduras, poverty is not the exception; it is the daily reality for most families. Among rural households, one in two live in extreme poverty.

With only 29 public hospitals for over 11 million people, most of them in urban centers, rural regions like Lago de Yojoa are left far from the care they need. With an estimated 5,500 births in the region each year and no nearby facility able to manage an obstetric emergency, a mother facing a complicated birth must travel to San Pedro Sula or Santa Bárbara for a cesarean — a wait she may not survive.

This is not a failure of a people, but a gap in a system, and a gap that can be closed.

253,000

people across the mountain villages ringing Lago de Yojoa that Hospital Yojoa will serve

2 hrs

in the back of a borrowed truck — the journey one mother endured to reach the nearest birthing clinic

A Mother's Story

Julissa's journey

After hours of laboring at home, Julissa, nine months pregnant, lay in the back of a borrowed pickup truck on the rocky mountain road to the nearest birthing clinic. Her son was born on the road, without a nurse, a midwife, or a hand to hold. Then came the bleeding.

At the clinic, the team recognized postpartum hemorrhage, but had no blood for transfusion and no medications to stop it. Two hours passed before an ambulance carried her to a hospital, where her heart stopped. The staff brought her back with CPR.

She lived. Her son lived.

Julissa’s story is the story of thousands of women in the mountains of Honduras. Hospital Yojoa is being built for them, and for the women whose stories end in tragedy.

By the Numbers

A public health emergency in rural Honduras

253,000

people within the Lago de Yojoa region

2.6x

more likely for a mother in Honduras to die from pregnancy or childbirth than a mother in the U.S.

2–3x

more likely for a Honduran newborn to die in the first month of life than a newborn in the U.S.

1 in 12

girls ages 15–19 in Honduras gives birth each year — one of the highest adolescent birth rates in Latin America

The Hospital Yojoa Solution

An integrated campus built for the region's most urgent needs

Hospital Yojoa rises on an 87-acre site near Santa Cruz de Yojoa, with the Phase 1 maternity hospital at its center, room to grow around it, and the core infrastructure a modern rural hospital requires: potable water and wastewater systems, on-site water treatment, and campus-wide electrical distribution.

Emergency Stabilization

A space for the moments that can’t wait — stabilizing a hemorrhaging mother, a struggling newborn, or a trauma patient to treat on-site and transfer safely.

Labor & Delivery

Monitored rooms with skilled birth attendants, giving mothers a safe place to deliver high-risk pregnancies where none exists nearby.

Surgical Care

2 operating rooms with cesarean section as a core procedure and capacity for gynecologic surgery, supported by pre-op and PACU recovery.

Outpatient Department

The hospital’s front door: prenatal visits, gynecologic care, follow-up, and community health education that keeps small problems from becoming emergencies.

Maternal Wards & Mother-Baby Unit

Antepartum and postpartum beds, plus a Mother-Baby Special Care Unit with Kangaroo Mother Care for preterm and low-birth-weight infants.

Diagnostics, Pharmacy & Education

Laboratory, X-ray and ultrasound imaging, a pharmacy, and dedicated space for patient teaching and provider training.

Built to grow. Phase 1 is the beginning, with room to expand toward the full 140-bed teaching hospital this region needs.

Spiritual Care

Healing beyond the physical

“Caring for body, soul, and community in the name of Christ.”

Hospital Yojoa will care for the whole person: body, soul, and community. Trained local pastor-chaplains will be available to pray with patients, comfort families, support staff, and connect people with nearby churches for ongoing spiritual care.

Every encounter is a chance to see a patient not as an illness, but as a child of God who needs support, understanding, and hope.

Chaplaincy

Pastor-chaplains trained in medical chaplaincy

Prayer

Prayer and pastoral care for patients and families

Church Connect

Community church connections for ongoing care

Staff Support

Spiritual care for hospital staff

Compassion

Training for health professionals in sharing Christ’s Gospel with compassion

Dignity

Christ-centered care in moments of fear, vulnerability, and need

Project Timeline

From secured land to open doors

Ground was officially broken on September 4, 2026. Construction is moving forward toward a target opening in 2029.

Thru early 2026

Land & Access

87-acre site secured and paid for; all-weather access road built and graded.

2026

Groundbreaking

Ground broken September 4, 2026; site prep, footings, and foundations.

2026 – 2029

Construction

Phase 1 hospital and campus infrastructure rise over a roughly 2½-year build.

2028 – 2029

Equip & Train

Equipment installed; missionary and Honduran medical teams recruited and trained.

2029

Doors Open

Hospital Yojoa welcomes its first patients.

2029 & beyond

Grow

Services expand in phases toward the 140-bed teaching hospital.

Funding Progress

The next gifts will make the hospital real

Since 2023, early gifts have funded the foundation beneath the hospital. The remaining Phase 1A construction need carries Hospital Yojoa from foundation to finished structure.

26%Raised

Raised since 2023

$1.8M

Land acquisition, site preparation, access infrastructure, planning, permitting, utilities, and initial construction payments.

Remaining Phase 1A need

$5.2M

The hospital building, water treatment and wastewater systems, campus electrical distribution, and supporting site infrastructure.

Leave a Legacy

A Cornerstone Gift

A cornerstone gift names a permanent space within Hospital Yojoa — a lasting record of the partners who made it possible. It is more than a name on a wall; it is a lasting investment in healing, hope, and medical education.

TIER 1

Foundational Leadership

Hospital Cornerstone and Founding Campaign Cornerstone gifts toward the Phase 1 building.

TIER 2

Wards & Departments

Surgical Suite, Maternity Ward, Labor & Delivery, Neonatal Care, Emergency Receiving, and more.

TIER 3

Lifeline Systems

Electrical distribution, water and wastewater, backup power, life-safety, oxygen, and data.

Phase 1B

Beyond construction lies equipping the hospital’s rooms, training the team, and putting resources in place to operate from day one. A portion of medical equipment and supplies is being pursued through in-kind donations, stretching every dollar given.

Accountability to Donors

Stewarded through Christian Health Service Corps

Hospital Yojoa is a project of Christian Health Service Corps, a global Christian medical-missions 501(c)(3) that provides the project’s legal, financial, and organizational home — with decades of experience supporting mission hospitals worldwide.

ECFA Accredited

Governance & Oversight

A steering committee of physicians and hospital leaders reports to CHSC’s U.S. board of directors. EIN 27-1505747.

Local Voice

A Honduran Advisory Council brings the community directly into governance, and Honduran physicians, nurses, and staff are trained to lead.

Financial Oversight

A financial subcommittee, a Honduras accountant, and CHSC’s controllers manage accounts, filings, and reporting.

Flexible Giving

Formal tax receipts for all gifts, including cash, stock, wire transfers, and donor-advised funds (DAFs).

Transparent Reporting

Regular construction updates, financial reporting against milestones, and opportunities for donor site visits.

Invitation to Partner

This is a rare moment.

As one of very few Christian mission teaching hospitals in the Western Hemisphere, Hospital Yojoa will heal in the name of Christ for generations. We invite you to prayerfully consider a gift toward the Phase 1A construction fund.

To discuss how your investment can shape this ministry, contact John Beers, Chief Development Officer · +1 903 962 4000 · john@healthservicecorps.org