The United Hospital has become a leader in the implementation of home care, and Chief Executive Huang Shengjian said that it has not been easy.
Taiwan has entered the era of population aging, the issue of long-term care is even more difficult for society, so the promotion of home care, hospice care is urgent, home care emphasizes the proximity of the people, but it is not easy to really implement; however, the Taipei City United Hospital has taken the lead in the community to promote the "from the hospital to the community at home," the whole person care. This is an important part of the process of implementing this home care policy," said Mr. Huang, Chief Executive Officer of the Taipei City United Hospital.
Jinshan community success in long term care deep into the corner of the North City
Huang Shengjian, Chief Director of the chin to keep a beard, the brow of the flow of peace, but when it comes to the community long term care program, his eyes straight light, "In fact, before the Health Insurance Agency would like to push through, but the general clinic, simply can not be implemented in 2015 can be said to have been a fiasco, but we are not the only one. Later, we felt that we could not do so, this piece still need to be done, so it was selected in the Jinshan community, and the results were quite good." Huang Shengjian said with a smile. The company's first step is to develop a new product that will be used in the marketplace," said Mr. Kennedy.
Golden Lineup of Long-Term Care Teams
The home care team at UMC in Taipei consists of a team of physicians, nurse practitioners, psychotherapists, and physical therapists, who bring their equipment to the patient's home, as if they were bringing an outpatient clinic to the home. Chief President Huang Shengjian emphasized, "Our team has come into contact with many cases where the living space is so small that even the physicians have no place to put their laptop computers if they want to type up their medical records, but such homes really need the care of the medical team". United Hospital's medical staff must undergo 13 hours of training before they can join the team, and since the promotion of home-based care, 1/3 of the hospital's medical staff has already committed to it.
What we're doing is not just seeing patients
Chief Executive Officer Huang Shengjian said that in addition to reaching out to the community to do home care, hospice care is also a key focus of the healthcare team, and that the hope is that people will seek a "good death" when they are dying, and that hospice care is about letting patients have a peaceful and comfortable time at the end of their lives.
The last mile with the patient to accompany the family out of the sadness
The team of the United Healthcare due to the process of treatment and the patient to produce a strong trust, the team of United Healthcare in addition to home hospice care, in the patient after the death of the will attend the funeral ceremony, the psychologist will be in the patient to leave before to after the death of the family to carry out grief counseling to allow the family to walk through the pain of the death of a loved one. The psychologist will also provide grief counseling to the family before and after the patient's departure so that the family can get through the pain of the death of their loved one. Huang Shengjian said, home care to implement the deep community is not easy, but along the way, he believes that as long as there are more people to invest, everything will not be difficult.
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