OUR HISTORY

In 1973, Jack Younger, a vacationing California builder chanced to meet Padre Cayetano Bertoldo in the small village of Nuevo Progreso in Guatemala. Together they worked to plan, build and staff a much needed medical facility for the Padre's village and the surrounding area. With the help of Jack's friends at the Family Club of San Francisco, the hospital was completed in 3 years. Today the hospital annually treats over 15,000 patients. Of this number, the U.S. volunteer surgical teams perform surgery on 1600 of the 5000 patients they see.



Padre Bertoldo passed away at age 85 on May 19, 2004, and while Jack Younger no longer makes the yearly 4 trips to Nuevo Progreso, the hospital cotinues to do the work he and the Padre envisioned. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Jack remains active as chairman of the board of the Hospital de la Familia Foundation.