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Repollés has pointed out that this intervention has been possible thanks to the donation of 173.137 euros, raised in a solidarity market organized by the employees of the Inditex logistics platform in Zaragoza, which took place last Christmas.
The 'Lozano Blesa' University Clinical Hospital of Zaragoza It has a new healthcare space for chronic patients, located on the first floor of the outpatient consultation building and which the Health Minister of the Hospital visited this Monday. Government of Aragon, Sira Repollés.
She has been accompanied by her manager, José Ignacio Barrasa, and the general director of Health Assistance, José María Abad. The counselor explained, in statements to the media, that in the autonomous community About 5.000 chronic patients and about a thousand are cared for in this health area..
In the case of the Clinic, he has detailed that it currently assists about 350 patients of this type. In this regard, the manager of the Clinic, José Ignacio Barrasa, has clarified that the space inaugurated now is the beginning of the unit, from which "We are going to build care for chronic patients, expanding hours and services".
Repollés has commented, for his part, that this new unit has conditions so that patients and their families "feel comfortable, we can care for them in their day daily in those facets of their care that require hourly hospitalization.
He added that it is, for the most part, elderly people, with multiple pathologies and mobility difficulties, who will be able to enjoy "friendly" spaces, to receive treatments, such as transfusions, with the purpose "of caring for them in quality conditions and without architectural barriers", "one more step in the care of this type of patient", he has glossed.
Repollés has pointed out that this intervention has been possible thanks to the donation of 173.137 euros, raised in a solidarity market organized by the employees of the Inditex logistics platform in Zaragoza, which took place last Christmas.
Change for the center
The manager of the Clinic has commented that other hospitals in Aragon It already has a similar unit. In your case, They enabled one before the pandemic, on the 13th floor, although it began to have other uses due to the pandemic. coronavirus.
The unit has two nurses and the staff of the Internal Medicine Service, "who leads the work done there", and represents a "very significant change" for the center, the result "of the evolution of care in recent years, with the increase in chronically ill patients."
"Complex treatments for hospital use" will be administered to these patients, which are "more frequent", and it will also serve to coordinate the care of these patients between primary and hospital care, "preventing them from going to the emergency room or having to make unnecessary hospitalizations"Barrasa said.
He has also pointed out that patients who require this type of assistance suffer from diseases rheumatological, cardiological or digestive, among others, and receive outpatient hospital treatments.
The remodeled area occupies an area of about 110 square meters, where all architectural barriers have been eliminated, and is equipped with six armchairs, one for isolation, a reception area, an assisted bathroom and another additional one, with open, glazed areas, with natural light and use of neutral materials and colors.
Likewise, it has vacuum and oxygen outlets, storage cabinets that allow maintaining the relaxing harmony of the environment and complete clinical equipment with an ultrasound machine, an electrocardiograph, an emergency cart and three telematic constant monitors, the Department of Health has stated.
Humanize
The remodeling, design and equipment of this new space, which will function as a Day Hospital, has arisen from the development of the project 'Improving the experience of complex chronic patients', with the objective of personalizing and humanizing the environment and providing new, more comfortable and ergonomic equipment to the spaces where these types of patients will be cared for.
It is configured as a care unit with a transversal nature to the entire medical area to provide chronic patients and those with complex health needs with specialized outpatient care of a comprehensive, effective and safe nature, in accordance with your health needs and expectations, maintaining the highest possible degree of personal autonomy and integration in their social and family environment, the aforementioned sources have added.
In this way, it is intended to avoid unnecessary admissions to these patients and will serve as a point of reference and support for primary care centers for the application of diagnostic-therapeutic procedures for hospital use on an outpatient basis, as well as for the administration of highly complex medication or hospital use to chronic patients of other specialized care services such as Pulmonology, Rheumatology, Digestive System, Allergology, Neurology, Surgery and Endocrinology.
The Chronic Complex Day Hospital currently operates from Monday to Friday, from 8.00:15.00 a.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. carries out an activity of about 1.450 sessions a year -such as transfusions or iron infusion-.
In the future and, taking into account the possibilities of these new facilities, a greater range of hours will be offered to fully satisfy the healthcare objectives for which it was designed.
