The Local Health Unit (ULS) of Coimbra will implement three nearby healthcare projects this year, within the scope of the Integrar+ programme, created internally to encourage ideas from its specialists.
This afternoon, the initiative's jury selected the projects “Treatment of Injuries That Are Hard to Heal,” “Integrated Clinical Pathway for Patients with Palliative Needs,” and “Integrated Pathway for Home Hospitalization and Primary Health Care.”
The Coimbra ULS program to encourage the construction of integration projects by health professionals received 55 applications, but only 12 made it through to the semi-finals held this afternoon.
“I find it extraordinary that Coimbra ULS was created at the beginning of January and was able in a short time to present 55 projects, which had to involve people from health centers and hospitals,” congratulated the head of the unit, Alexandre Lourenço, in statements to journalists.
The projects, according to the person in charge, are “innovative, of exceptional quality and fully aligned with the strategic vision of ULS, with a strong impact on the population and the way people use the health service.”
“Of the 12 projects, they all make sense. The difficulty there was to prioritize which projects and which ones make sense to implement in the short term, because obviously they all make sense within the organization.
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According to Alexandre Lourenço, the selected projects will not “necessarily” require the recruitment of more health professionals, since there is “a major effort to improve human resources, reorganize and get people to work together.”
“The big drama we have faced in the health system so far has been the difficulty of working together, between hospitals and primary health care units, and we have been able to get more and more people working together,” he stressed.
The head of ULS in Coimbra highlighted that the three selected projects “are very community-oriented so that patients have the idea that there is a health system that takes care of them, which is the National Health Service (SNS)”.
The Integrated Pathway Project for Home Hospitalization and Primary Health Care aims to “simplify the admission of patients under home hospitalization from primary health care.”
“The idea will be to avoid the patient going to the emergency room, with admission and evaluation done directly at the patient's home, facilitating treatment and resource expenditure, as well as providing greater comfort for the patient,” explained physician Katarina Lucas.
The Hard-to-Heal Injuries Project, which already includes a functioning unit at Kantanhede Hospital, aims to closely respond to the high prevalence of people with complex wounds, through differentiated and decentralized teams.
“We intend to double and un-double this unit [Cantanhede]“But we still have to add more features, namely hospital links, because we have many users who will need this differentiated monitoring with other specialties,” said nurse Luis Claro.
In a partnership between the in-hospital palliative care support team of the Coimbra Hospital and the University Center and Care Unit of the Torre de Senos Community, in Miranda do Corvo, the “Integrated Clinical Pathway for Patients with Palliative Needs” was born, which aims to clarify hospital care and primary care in monitoring Sick at home.
According to nurse Sarah Cunha, the proposal includes developing a care plan for the patient and family, shared by both teams, “so that there is continuity of care and the patient can stay at home for as long as possible and the teams rotate.” About the patient.”
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