John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will dramatically change the quality of care for women and children in its region (2020)
prediction · status: came true · last event: came true (2026-04-28) · owner: John
In January 2020 John said the Maternal Center of Excellence, once Partners In Health raised the $20 million to break ground, would dramatically improve care for women and children in Sierra Leone. He repeated it at the 2021 groundbreaking and in later years, and in spring 2026 said it had transformed care in Kono, with 120 maternal beds and the country's first neonatal intensive care unit.
Part of: Maternal Center of Excellence: the brothers' Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone (2019)
Told alongside: John asks viewers to donate to Partners In Health at pih.org/hankandjohn (2019) · John: at current monthly donation rates, the PIH Sierra Leone project will raise over $15 million in five years (2020) · John: as a teaching hospital the Maternal Center of Excellence will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers (2019) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will fully open in 2025 (2024) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will complete construction in October 2025 and begin opening to patients in January 2026 (2025) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence will radically reduce maternal and infant mortality in Kono and beyond (2022) · John: the Maternal Center of Excellence's first wards will open in 2024 (2023)
About: Maternal Center of Excellence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-07 | predicted | John says Partners In Health needs $20 million to break ground on the Maternal Center of Excellence, which will dramatically improve healthcare for women and children in Sierra Leone. · also in: Looking Back at My 2020 Goals | Endings · Beginnings 00:00:48 |
| 2021-04-20 | repeated | John says the MCOE will dramatically change the quality of care available to women and children in the region. | Breaking Ground!!! 00:00:29 |
| 2023-05-02 | repeated | Helped by the nearly $40 million Nerdfighteria and PIH raised over three and a half years, the MCOE will be the world-class center Kono's mothers and children deserve. | GOOD NEWS 00:01:27 |
| 2025-05-13 | repeated | John says it will start with inpatient care, phase in outpatients, and as a teaching facility dramatically improve care for babies and moms in eastern Sierra Leone. | I Have the BEST News 00:02:59 |
| 2026-02-24 | repeated | John calls the MCOE a real game changer for maternal and child health in the region. | Risk Is a Privilege 00:00:29 |
| 2026-04-14 | came true | John is reminded that long-term problems demand long-term solutions: after seven years with Partners In Health and Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health, they are seeing the transformation. | Babies. Babies. Babies. 00:03:24 |
| 2026-04-28 | came true | John lists the MCOE's piped oxygen, a laundry still under construction, 120 maternal beds and the nation's first NICU, and says it has transformed the care possible in Kono and Sierra Leone. | What I Can't Show You 00:02:55 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update — John: The MCOE will almost triple the region's maternal hospital beds, expects over 4,000 deliveries a year and a five-fold rise in family planning visits, and will greatly increase necessary C-sections. — 00:03:45
- 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John says they still need to raise a few million dollars, which he realizes is a lot of money. — 00:01:13
- 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — announcement: John's most important 2020 goal is to finish raising the money, though maybe 2020 isn't realistic for it. (hedged) — 00:01:17
- 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John says thousands of viewers have become monthly donors to the project at pih.org/hankandjohn; he is grateful, as are people in Sierra Leone, one of whom made him an artwork. — 00:01:02
- 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — ask: John asks people who can make a big donation to Partners In Health to email him at sparksflyup@gmail.com or donate directly to the matching fund. — 00:01:21
- 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John: The mental health clinic is growing, as is a new clinic for adolescent care. — 00:01:16
- 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John says the MCOE should dramatically accelerate this progress. (hedged) — 00:01:16
- 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John: As a teaching hospital, the MCOE will train the next generation of Sierra Leonean health care workers. — 00:01:16 · also in: Risk Is a Privilege
- 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John: There is a very long way to go in strengthening Sierra Leone's health care system, but this is a big milestone. — 00:01:16