As the mission continued to grow, Clarence Jones and Reuben Larson began looking for missionary doctors and nurses to care for the mission’s staff and employees, as well as attend to the needs of indigenous people who passed near the station. Dr. Paul Roberts and Nurse Kay Erb Berry were the first to arrive in 1949 to begin a small indigenous shelter and clinic.

Dr. Paul Roberts had a much greater dream of a fully-equipped modern hospital where all people could receive the best care, regardless of their race, social class or ability to pay. His dream became a reality in 1955 with the inauguration of Hospital Vozandes-Quito, financed largely through the gifts of listeners to Dr. George Palmer’s local radio program “Morning Cheer” in Philadelphia, Pa.

Shortly after, Dr. Ev Fuller joined HCJB’s medical work in 1950, he met Nate Saint, a young missionary pilot working in the eastern jungle of Ecuador. Nate Saint shared with Dr. Fuller the need for a medical hospital near Mission Aviation Fellowship’s base at Shell Mera. Hospital Vozandes-Shell was completed in 1958 largely through gifts from listeners to the “Back to the Bible” radio program of Dr. Theodore Epp.

HCJB’s medical ministries extended beyond the hospital walls to local villages through community development ministries such as mobile medical clinics, potable water projects and urban clinics. Throughout the history of the mission’s medical outreach, it has continually provided formal and informal training to doctors, residents, medical students, nurses and local health promoters.