The New Hospital of Cartagena will be the regional reference and referral Peripheral Vascular Surgery for the area VIII in Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology and Urology.
The manager of the Health Area II, Manuel Ángel Moreno, today introduced the new organization established in the health area, where residents receive assistance from the municipalities of Cartagena, La Union, Fuente Alamo, Mazarron.
Thus the Health Area II, after the refurbishment of the managers, it becomes the only of the region whose 279,000 residents have two independent hospitals in service, when in operation the New Hospital of Cartagena.
Since last January 1 health centers, health centers, clinics, emergency departments of Primary Care, Gynecological Unit Area, Family Planning Unit, mental health centers, centers for Drug Addiction Care, health centers and hospitals in Cartagena, Union, Fuente Alamo and Mazarrón are integrated within the Management Area II.
Health Area II, which comprises 279,000 individual health cards after the segregation of the Area VIII del Mar Menor, which will enjoy more health care resources of the nine areas of the Region, the hospitals have two independent and complementary to full capacity.
On the one hand, the New Hospital in St. Lucia and, secondly, the Santa Maria del Rosell Hospital, which will add over 1,000 beds and also counted for a time with the support of the Naval Hospital services Tentegorra.
The manager explained that the new Hospital is the regional reference areas such as Peripheral Vascular Surgery, with a new catheterization laboratory and will be the second hospital in the region with a PEC-CT for early and accurate diagnosis of cancer processes, as well count as a novelty to a specific unit burned. "
The new center will also refer Health Area VIII in specialties such as urology, ENT, Ophthalmology and complex determinations of Laboratory and Diagnostic Imaging.
A health these compounds must be added the 16 teams of primary care in 15 health centers and 44 clinics, 5 Emergency Services Primary Care, 3 points Continuing Care, Oral Health 9 units, 9 units of Physiotherapy, 16 units Prophylaxis Obstetric, 1 unit of Mental Health, 3 Home Care Support Teams, 4 units of Social Work and Mental Health Center and the Center for Rehabilitation and Day Hospital
This healthcare network, add new health centers in Puerto de Mazarrón and Cartagena Old Town, pending opening this year.
In this area, there will be major works of infrastructure adequacy of the care demands of citizens and completed the expansion of centers like the one in Mazarron, while also continue the work of transforming the office of the Barrio de la Concepción de Cartagena health center.
For Moreno, "the integration of structures will lead to the unification of workers and the homogenization of their duties, in addition to the coordination of information systems of different areas, that will share information more smoothly and rapidly."
Nearly 3,000 professionals
University Hospital Santa María del Rosell has currently with 332 doctors, 1,116 medical staff workers and 641 non-physician health workers.
In total, 2,101 workers.
Primary care has to date 859 workers, including 228 family physicians and 50 pediatricians in primary care teams, 38 Emergency Medical Services, 3 ESAD family physicians, 9 stomatologist, 1 pharmacist, 281 nurses, and many others among dental hygienists, physiotherapists, social workers, administrative assistants and orderlies.
The necessary operational efficiency and functional-level services will be centralized in one physical location in the first phase, operating until the new medical complex in Santa Lucia.
So part of the primary workers, mainly the central management, billing and purchasing departments will move to the University Hospital Santa María del Rosell.
Areas of Pharmacy and Logistics, and in terms of stores, will remain as they were until it begins to operate the logistics platform that will lead to the centralization of procurement processes.
Administrative Organization Management
This new Management Area has been a new organizational chart consists of a multidisciplinary management team with extensive experience in Primary, "with the aim of improving as the first door access to the health system," said the director.
In the new work scheme manager's figure holds, and in the Health Area II, and the rest of the nine areas arising from the new Regional Health Care Map set in April 2009, the post is held by the hospital manager reference area, Manuel Ángel Moreno, manager of the Hospital del Rosell until December 31, 2009.
In addition, the addresses are stored Nursing and Management and General Services, while the former Medical Director of the hospital is constantly changing its name to Care Management in order to give greater weight to the assistance of the user.
The novelty is the creation of a new direction, the Continuity of processing, primarily to make the patient as the hub of the health system.
Its objective is to optimize the transition between levels of care in all medical processes user in the healthcare system and provide comprehensive care with better guarantees and more efficiently.
Manuel Ángel Moreno graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Córdoba, specialty of Family and Community Medicine.
It opposed licensed physician since 1981 and has carried out their daily work in primary care centers in Santa Lucia, and St. Anton Pozo Estrecho.
Was medical coordinator of the health center of St. Anton from 1993 to 1996, when it comes to occupy the post of Primary Care Manager until July 2008, at which time he was appointed manager of the Hospital Santa María del Rosell.
It has an important management training, highlighting the Advanced Management Program in Health Institutions IESE and the Master in Health Services Management at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.
In addition, a Master's in Health Law and Bioethics at the School of Legal Practice and the FIS.
Source: CARM