The geriatric medicine department has a specialized comprehensive assessment room for the elderly.
Geriatric Medicine Department holds a large education class for diabetes every six months.
Red Net Time Hengyang November 4th (Correspondent Luo Linglian Reporter Tan Qian) In order to better serve the elderly medical group, on November 1, the geriatric medicine department, which had been in trial operation for many months in Nanhua Second Affiliated Hospital, officially became an independent department.
Geriatric Medicine Outpatient Clinic is located in the hospital's National Standardized Metabolic Disease Management Center. The clinic has a comfortable and quiet medical environment, one-stop, comprehensive chronic disease diagnosis and treatment services, and has a specialized comprehensive assessment room for elderly patients, which can maximize the convenience of elderly patients for medical treatment, avoiding the elderly's back and forth between multiple clinics, saving time and physical strength.
Recently, the reporter walked into the hospital and saw that various thoughtful details that facilitate the elderly’s medical treatment can be seen everywhere. The hospital's prompt signs are eye-catching and easy to understand. The outpatient hall is equipped with easy-to-borrow wheelchairs, flat cars and other pick-up equipment, accessible parking space for the elderly, , volunteers wearing red jackets... A series of thoughtful measures have improved the satisfaction of elderly patients in seeing a doctor.
To better provide convenient services for elderly patients with reduced mobility, the geriatric medicine department combines the hospital's high-quality service activity month and has a variety of convenient facilities and equipment in the ward. The nurse station is equipped with wheelchairs, flat cars, walking walkers and other moving equipment that can be used at any time. The convenient box with complete details is equipped with reading glasses , needles, thimble , straws, combs, candy and other convenient items. The elevator entrance is conveniently operated by a shared care bed, a handrail with suitable height on both sides of the ward corridor, and a switch button with luminous stickers in the ward. Everything starts from the details to meet the daily needs of hospitalized patients. The hospital equipped with aging-friendly seats, seating scales, foldable shower seats, foldable toilets, electronic calendars and other related equipment has also been improved one after another.
At the same time, the geriatric medicine department carries out health exercises every day, holds a ward patient learning exchange meeting every half month, holds a diabetes education class every half month, and holds a diabetes end-of-year association every year, actively publicizes knowledge suitable for disease prevention and treatment and rehabilitation for the elderly. Various high-risk factors are screened for elderly hospitalized patients, including nutrition, self-care ability, falling/falling bed risk, VTE risk and other assessment projects, and relevant risk prevention measures and emergency plan are established to reduce the occurrence of related risks.
Next, the hospital will take the opportunity of creating an elderly friendly institution to further improve the medical environment and friendly atmosphere of elderly patients, improve its service capabilities and levels, improve the medical satisfaction of elderly patients, and be an actor who promotes the Chinese nation's virtue of respecting and helping the elderly, and promotes an elderly-friendly society.
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