Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The managing director of the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil, José Blanco, assures that the problem that his emergency service has experienced in recent weeks “is stabilizing” thanks to the measures in which work continues and the reinforcement of agreed personnel.
“We are working hard with a series of measures, we continue to have structural problems, but we are expanding work areas for patients and professionals,” Blanco said at a press conference in which the new molecular oncology laboratory of the center.
The manager of the Insular has highlighted that “the majority of the professionals are helping a lot to deal with this problem”, at the same time that he has assured that with “the measures that have been implemented the problem is being stabilized”, so that this weekend week “it has been achieved, at least, to have a more normal influx and a more normal operation of the hospital.”
Last Friday the Insular University Hospital of Gran Canaria reinforced the staff of the Emergency service with one more doctor on duty and the figure of the Nurse Coordinator in the Emergency Department, both in the morning and in the afternoon.
The on-call physician serves as a reinforcement to the “overcrowding” of patients in the service, while the Emergency Coordinator Nurse has the function of coordinating the redistribution of patients depending on whether the referral is to the transition area, to the ward or the ambulance transfer area, facilitating and supervising the drainage of patients.
In the same way, doctors have increased in the afternoon and on weekends, with the aim of allowing hospital discharges to be given in those time periods, as well as to expand the performance of tests and expedite the capacity for diagnostic resolution.
There has also been a reinforcement of guards with the hiring of eleven troops to expedite the turnover rate of patients pending admission, and the cleaning staff has also been reinforced.
These measures are part of a plan to improve the care offered by the Emergency Service in the face of the existing infrastructure and space problem, which complicates care when it registers overcrowding due to increased demand from its reference population, the hospital has confessed.
The objective is to launch a series of initiatives that favor the work of professionals and the comfort of patients while the problem is definitively resolved with the construction of the extension building of the Hospital that is currently occupied by the University Center of Las Palmas. (GUILTY).
Within these measures to improve emergency care, the Management has launched a multidisciplinary team integrated into the Admission Management Committee that is in charge of optimizing the process of discharge and admission of patients in hospitalization beds with the purpose of Minimize shipping delays.
This battery of measures also includes the reinforcement of Home Hospitalization to make it easier for those patients who meet the profile to be cared for at home with daily check-ups by the doctor and nurse while their clinical process lasts and they are discharged from the hospital.
Work has also been carried out to expand the transition area of the emergency department of the hospital center, with a new space that plans to increase the capacity of the service and create a new transit area for patients who have already been assessed and are in awaiting transfer to the hospitalization floor.
In total, it is expected to gain an area for the installation of 10 beds for patients who require admission. EFE