DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) tertiary hospitals have come through comprehensive inspections by the internationally-renowned Joint Commission International (JCI) with flying colours.
Four tertiary hospitals — Women’s Hospital, Hamad General Hospital, Heart Hospital and National Centre for Cancer Care and Research (NCCCR) — provide specialist care services for patients with cancer, heart conditions and those requiring surgery, and maternity and paediatric care for women and newborns.
New technology, services and processes have been implemented to improve quality and patient experience at all four tertiary hospitals in line with JCI’s stringent healthcare standards.
Last December, NCCCR opened the region’s first CyberKnife Suite in the Department of Radiation Oncology. It offers a revolutionary treatment technology for cancer.
HGH officially opened its new Paediatric Continuity Clinic at 2015-end. The clinic features eight themed treatment rooms providing care for general outpatient services for children.
It is staffed by a multi-disciplinary care team and operates under a patient-centred model. Quality and safety have also been at the forefront of recent improvements at Heart Hospital and Women’s Hospital.
Women’s Hospital has implemented a life-saving quality improvement project for babies born prematurely. The Golden Hour Delivery Room Management project adopts evidenced-based practice to provide the best possible care to extreme preterm babies.
Heart Hospital opened its Advanced Heart Failure Unit last year to provide specialised multi-disciplinary care for people with advanced heart failure. It offers state-of-the-art treatment and monitoring technology and plays a role in attending to patients’ physical, emotional and psychological needs and improving the quality of care they receive. Following two-month rigorous assessment, HMC has become the first healthcare system across the globe to have all of its hospitals accredited by JCI under the Academic Medical Centre programme.
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