Projects for the improvement of patients' wellbeing


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Baby-Mother hospitalization







 Project: Creation of a baby-mother structure
 Context: Each year, 500 newborns have to be cared for in the Neonatology Unit, separated from their mothers who remain on the Maternity Ward
 Aims: To keep mother and child togother by creating a Mother-and-Baby Unit adjacent to the Neonatology Unit. For mothers who are able to leave the Maternity Ward, 2 "hotel" rooms will be established, so that they can stay with their babies
 Cost: CHF 300'000.-






Paediatrics


 Project: Intensive and Intermediate Care Unit rehabilitation
 Context: The premises of Paediatric Intensive and Intermediate Care is 50 years old, and is unable to meet current demands for treatment. With a rate of occupation bordering 140 %, the cramped conditions complicate patient care and make it difficult to introduce the latest technological innovations, for example, in ventilation or ultrasounds
 Aims: total rehabilitation of premises; the creation of two new rooms in Intensive Care; the addition of two beds in Iintermediate Care
 Cost: CHF 1'500'000.-






Paediatrics






 Project: Re-publication of the booklet " Mon journal d'hôpital " 
 Context: for children, hospitalization often provokes fear and stress
 Aim: take the drama out of hospitalization, and familiarize young patients of the HUG Child and Teenager Department with the world of hospitals and care by putting at their disposal a playful and customizable document
 Cost: CHF 15'000.-





Paediatrics


 Project: Planning a center for children's tests
 Context: The HUG Paediatric Metabolic Unit welcomes 400 children anually for extensive testing. These tests take, on average, around 5 hours, and often longer. Throughout these tests, children have to remain immobile
 Aim: To provide the Unit with games, audiovisuel equipment and films, to improve the children's experience of hospital
 Cost: CHF 12'545.-





Ophthalmology







 Project: Purchase of an intraocular endoscope
 Context: In approximately on third of retinal detachment cases, the surgical repair is hindered because the affected area is difficult to visualize. The iintraocular endoscope solves this problem by introducing a camera into the eye, behind the damage and partly opaque cornea and lens
 Aim: immediate treatment of retinal detachment
 Cost: CHF 50'000.-







  

Last modified 28/07/2008