Shoulder to Shoulder, in conjunction with Global Health Ministries, has partnered with Ilula Lutheran Hospital in Ilula,
Tanzania for more than 15 years to develop and improve the services provided to the local area by the hospital. Starting
in 2014, Shoulder to Shoulder presented the inaugural Ilula-Minnesota International Healthcare Conference. Our first
course was presented in January 2014 with 30 attendees. Based on extremely positive feedback from the initial
conference, our partners in Tanzania encouraged us to significantly expand the conference to offer this educational
experience to a much larger audience of caregivers. As a result, we expanded the 2015 conference to include all 28
Southern Zone Lutheran Hospitals with a total attendance of approximately 80 professionals. For the 2016 conference,
we added an administrative track to our conference and included over 100 attendees. The 2017 conference expanded
attendance to include nursing school staff. For the 2019 conference we hosted over 100 Tanzanian health care
professionals.
