Collaborating Center of the National Council of Health Trustees (Kaunas) For good health practices, a delegation of professionals from five excellent hospitals in Brazil visited Uberlândia. The group consists of representatives (see below) from the hospitals of Sírio Libanês (HSL), Beneficência Portuguesa (BP), Alemão Oswaldo Cruz (HAOC), Coração (HCor) and Moinho de Ventos (HMV).
The schedule held on Monday (30th) and Tuesday (31) highlighted the role of the Town Hall Primary Care in Minas Gerais’ second largest city as the regulator of the health care network. The professionals were also able to talk about management in the sector in a meeting with Mayor Odelmo Liao in the municipality’s administrative center.
Since 2017, in addition to 15% of the budget stipulated in the constitution, we have invested more than 1.26 billion R$ to ensure the quality of aid and to combat the epidemic. This means that health, for us, is a priority. Therefore, we open the doors and are ready for partnerships with which we all learn, through the exchange of experiences,” emphasized Mayor Odelmo Liao.
The visit began on Monday morning (30th) with a presentation of the interface between hospital care and primary care in the Mother and Infant Network. The visit took place at the Municipal and Maternity Hospital in Oberlandia. In the afternoon, health care planning exercises were presented during a visit to the laboratory unit of the APS – UBSF Santa Luzia. On Wednesday, it was the technical visit to UAI São Jorge, UBSF Shopping Park I and they met with the President of the Municipal Executive.
On Tuesday (31st), representatives of hospital units were at UAI São Jorge and learned about the municipality’s continuing care and responsible discharge programs. In addition, visitors visited UBSF Shopping Park to present a model for a new UBSF building.
The medical coordinator of Syria Lebanon Hospital, Stefan Sperling, followed up on the details presented on the municipal administration’s contracts with social organizations (OS). By the way, he pointed out the importance of lessons learned from the visit.
“We look forward to learning about the Uberlândia reality for the project that we will implement through the Unified Health System Institutional Development Support Program in partnership with Conass and the Ministry of Health. The idea is to take these secondary outpatient care points with a numerical bias to implement a reality similar to that of Uberlândia in the Northeast states. And what we found Here was effective and lasting public policies.
The program also emphasizes the way Uberlândia Health treats the role of specialists within Secondary outpatient point of care – basa model. In this method, care goes beyond the specialized outpatient clinic and provides educational support to professionals and patient care.
“Here we have implemented a process of assisted self-care and continuous care in which we use the importance of a specialist’s knowledge of the importance of the primary care professional. This integration makes the patient see integration,” noted the Municipal Health Minister, Gladstone Rodrigues.
Check with representatives of each hospital unit that participated in the technical visit:
Syrian Lebanese Hospital
- Stephen Sperling – Medical Coordinator
- Luina Rios Pereira
German Hospital Oswaldo Cruz
- Fernanda Sachs Hahn – Project Coordinator
- André Philip Silva
- Eno Dias Filho
Moinhos de Vento Hospital
- Thais de Campos Moreira – Digital Health Project Leader
- Hilda Maria Molida Constant
Portuguese charity
- Rilda Caroni – Project Specialist
- Monica Moleda
- Ludmila Guimarães
HCor
- Camila Rocon – Physician Coordinator
- Maria Letizia
CONASS Collaborating Center
Since 2017, Uberlândia has been developing the standardization of health services using healthcare planning obtained through the Qualifica SaUDI project. The guideline came to ensure community access to health facilities and to promote primary care in the city.
One of the visitors is the project manager of Moinho de Ventos Hospital. It highlights how enriching the exchange with the Kunass Collaborative Center is. “It is a rich experience to learn about the clinics and all the possibilities that Uberlândia has and how it works, and to be very successful, so we will try to implement all these good things in other locations in our country,” he said.
In Uberlandia, the initiative has had positive effects, among other things, in the flow of care, reducing waiting time for consultations, expanding the family registry, and categorizing users.
