Project Duration: 2 months
Start/End Date: October - November 2010

Cultural competence is a vital aspect of care for patients from different backgrounds. Our intervention will support the staff in providing quality care to Muslim patients with diverse values, beliefs and behaviors.
Caring for Muslim women in American hospitals is a challenge for health care professionals.
Lecturing about Islamic medical ethics and the unique consideration of medical therapy for Muslim women is the cornerstone for improving care and preventing confrontation between the patient and staff.
Culturally competent care will fulfill the Muslim woman’s social, cultural and linguistic needs.

Partnering Organization(s) :
Al-Taj Organization is located in Galilee, Israel, partnering with American medical centers and conferences. 

Al-Taj for Health and Heritage
P.O. Box 85, Arraba 30812, Israel
Tel/Fax: +972-4-6747737      Mobile: +972-52-4594490
Email: altaj@013.net       URL: underconstruction
Contact person: Kassim Baddarni - Director
 
Al-Taj Mission:to improve awareness for prevention, early detection and improve management and outcome of cancer and diabetes for the Arab minority inIsrael.
 
Project Mission : To improve awareness of non-Muslim healthcare providers about Islamic medical ethics and cultural competence when caring for Muslim women.
Project Objective(s): To improve the quality of medical care to Muslim women living in the USA by educating medical and nursing staff regarding Islamic belief and medical ethics.

Target group(s) :American physicians, nurses and social workers, working in American hospitals.
Geographical scope(s) of project :American hospitals and conferences.
Countries involved: Al-Taj Organization from Galilee with USA.

Summary about the project: Attached
 
US involvement/contribution within the project:  American health care professionals are eager to learn more about the Muslim patient. Lectures and collaboration in publishing medical articles are welcomed by American healthcare. We already collaborated with the head of a cardiac unit and a Kuwaiti physician to publish an article about organ transplant in view of Islam.

Achievements/progress to date.:
Lecturing at all medical centers and many national conferences in Israel about Islamic medical ethics, death and dying in Islamic views, for Jewish physicians, nurses and social workers.
Lecturing at international conferences in Cyprus, Turkey, Italy and the USA. Addressing the medical and nursing staff at the Cedar’s Sinai medical center in Los Angeles.
Publishing the first ever book in Hebrew titled “Medical Ethics and the Muslim Patient” and distributed free to all medical centers in Israel.
Publishing articles in leading national and international medical magazines about Islamic medical ethics.

Contact person for the project : Kassim Baddarni