Haitians fled the capital, and their destination after the Jan. 12 earthquake was the Hopital Albert Schweitzer, an 80-bed country hospital founded by Pittsburgh's Larimer and Gwen Mellon, heirs to a banking and oil fortune who brought American medicine to the impoverished countryside of the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation.

"They started coming around midnight," said Ian Rawson, Mrs. Mellon's son, who now runs the hospital. "I thought, OK, we'll get about 20 or 30. But they just kept coming."

By morning, 300 beds, cots and whatever could hold a wounded body packed the rooms, filled the hallways, flooded into the open courtyards.

Civic Association Director, Isabel Phelps Furlaud has been a supporter of the Hopital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) hospital for years and she has called for donations because they are running short of medical supplies. Ms. Furlaud said, "The hospital used almost three month's supply of medications and surgical materials in the first ten days after the quake. Please help!"

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To donate, go to the HAS Haiti website:  http://www.hashaiti.org/