- After the COVID-19 crisis, the Department of Health has resumed activity in consultations, tests and the operating room, spacing out the agendas, establishing a longer schedule both in the morning and in the afternoon
- The department incorporates in 2020 the first Resident Internal Doctors and Nurses (MIR and EIR)
- 10 years of activity with super specialized services such as Cardiac, Thoracic, Maxillofacial Surgery, Nuclear Medicine or Hemodynamics.
ELCHE. 04.06.2020. He Vinalopó Health Department, managed by Ribera Health, meets your tenth anniversary since the beginning of its journey on June 1, 2010. Ten years at the service of citizens and in which excellent results have been recorded, endorsed by official reports.
Vinalopo Health celebrate this date immersed in a global pandemic caused by COVID-19 that, without a doubt, has marked us all. The Vinalopó University Hospital and the Department's health centers are currently in the phase of recovery of care activity. One of the effects of the Covid-19 health crisis was the temporary suspension of delayed activity in order to deal with urgent activity, health needs related to the coronavirus and in order to contain the infection of the community. For a few weeks, and in coordination with the Ministry of Health, the Vinalopó Health Department has started the de-escalation, recovering part of normality as the epidemiological situation allows, and maintaining the prevention circuits and access control to the centers.
Activity in consultations, tests and the operating room has been progressively resumed, spacing out the agendas and establishing a longer schedule both in the morning and in the afternoon. “The priority is being to attend to those patients who saw their appointments delayed two months ago, attending to each case individually. The intention of the Department is to recover normality throughout this month, ”explains the Dr. Rafael Carrasco, Department Manager.
This global health crisis has brought new ways of doing medicine, such as promote telemedicine and the resolution of queries through Ihealth. The return to normality goes through reinforce home care, either through primary care or with the Home Hospitalization Unit, as long as the pathology allows it. In addition, protocols have been established in health centers to reinforce the application of the corrective protection measures against the virus as well as surveillance and identification of suspicious cases in residential centers as well as in specific groups such as residences, social-health centers or penitentiaries.
FIRST YEAR OF MIR TRAINING
In addition, the Vinalopó University Hospital receives the first Resident Internal Physicians (MIR) in the coming months in the specialties of Pediatrics, Family and Community Medicine, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, General Surgery and Digestive System, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Intensive Medicine and Pathological Anatomy and Internal Nurse Residents (EIR) of Pediatrics, Family and Community Nursing and Gynecology and Obstetrics. A total of 23 accredited training places that are added to the more than 700 university students and other training centers that each year are trained in the Department.
The Department of Health is immersed in a digital transformation and technological investment placing the department at the technological forefront throughout the Spanish territory. Proof of this is the CT Drive with state-of-the-art, high-end computed tomography that makes it possible to obtain images and studies with lower radiation doses for the patient.
EXCELLENT RESULTS
The management team of the center has presented the balance of the last year in which They have highlighted the minimum waiting times compared to the Valencian Community, the high satisfaction of patients, the excellent health results reflected in the Management Agreements of the Ministry itself and the investment made per inhabitant. Some indicators also endorsed by the audit report of the Audit Office of the Generalitat Valenciana on the concession model.
Waiting times at the Vinalopó health department are well below the standards. According to official data from the Ministry of Health, the Vinalopó health department is the one with the least average delay in the entire Valencian Community.
PORTFOLIO OF SERVICES WITHOUT THE NEED TO TRAVEL
The management of the center has recalled that The hospital has a wide service portfolio with more than 60 specialties to offer our patients complete health care with super-specialized services not available in surrounding centers, which, along with proper management, makes it one of the hospitals that refers fewer patients to other centers.
In addition, he recalled that It is one of the few hospitals to have a pet visit protocol for long-term patients as well as a functional diversity plan severe or serious that guarantees universal accessibility in health care, improving the experience of patients and their quality of life.
