AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Good Health & Well-being
KEYWORDS
Design For Healthcare, Design For Education, Design For Extreme Affordability
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Co-Founders of Noora Health: Shahed Alam, Katy Ashe, Edith Elliott, and Jessie Liu, met at the Stanford d.School & formed the innovation during the course “Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability” while graduate students from different departments at Stanford Engineering, Stanford School of Medicine, & International Policy. All four co-founders went on to form Noora Health together full-time after seeing the enormous impact that the simple intervention could have on communities in-need.
WEBSITE
http://www.noorahealth.org/
Noora Health
High-impact health skill training for marginalized patient families, improves outcomes & saves lives
Transforming hospital waiting-rooms into classrooms by turning nurses into teachers; & certifying all of families passing through healthcare facilities in conditions they are going home with. By empowering family members of patients with high-impact health skills, we put healthcare into hands of those who need it most, in some of the world’s most under-served communities. Have shown a 71% reduction in complication rates at 30-days for cardiac surgery with this simple, cost-effective, highly scalable intervention. Noora does trainings for families that have gone through or been diagnosed with following conditions: cardiac surgery, major surgeries, diabetes, cancer, newborn care, & pre-term birth. Already in 26+ hospitals in India & several in the United States – this intervention not only saves lives across multiple conditions, but also saves valuable time & resources for healthcare institutions trying to meet needs of the world’s poorest. Has trained 45,000+ family members since 2014.
