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Hochman: Wainwright leads charge to change the world

JUPITER, Fla. • In one of the poorer nations on the planet, in a city ravaged by natural disasters and unnatural poverty, near an orphanage that houses the loneliest and unluckiest of the city’s children, there is a medical clinic.

They call it the community hospital in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. It opened three months ago, employing 50 staffers including doctors and nurses, while equipped with operating rooms, medical equipment and medicine.

Adam Wainwright built the whole thing.

“I don’t think you can put it into words,” friend and former teammate Kyle McClellan said. “You have to see it to understand the life-changing effect this is having on people who had no access to medical care.