Features

  Features
Stroke Center
  1. We cooperate with the Department of Emergency Medicine to enhance the treatment of hyperacute ischemic stroke: for patients with ischemic stroke thrombolytic agents, following complete diagnosis and treatment at the hospital, will be given immediately within 3 hours after the onset of symptoms, in the hope that most ischemic brain tissue can be salvaged within the golden hour and has the greatest chance for recovery.
  2. For patients hospitalized for stroke we have dedicated stroke wards and an interdisciplinary stroke team that jointly discusses and investigates patients' condition, providing patients with the most excellent and appropriate medical services, care and nutrition, and rehabilitation programs.
  3. Neuroimaging specialists, who are responsible for immediate neuroimaging diagnosis 24 hours a day, also offer interventional vascular therapy including cerebral artery stenting that opens up the occluded artery, intraarterial cerebral thrombolysis, balloon angioplasty, cerebral aneurysm embolization that blocks bleeding and cerebral arteriovenous malformation embolization.
  4. Neurology specialists will continue to take part in exploratory research of new therapy to advance the standard of medical care.
  5. We have established a stroke registry to understand prevalence rates and disease patterns of stroke in Taiwan, efficacy of thrombolytic agents or other interventional therapy, and medium and long-term prognosis. We will use these local data as empirical evidence for effectiveness evaluation and adjust stroke prevention policy and practices accordingly. 
  6. We will regularly review each index to maintain quality control and medical care during hospitalization.
  7. We educate the public about the importance of stroke healthcare. Through irregular health education and seminars, stroke-related video broadcasting, handing out stroke health education brochures and links to the associated information on the web page of the Stroke Center we teach the public how to prevent, increase vigilance against and immediately identify a stoke and take advantage of the golden hour of stroke treatment.
  8. With the aim of contributing to the society and entering the community Stroke Center supplies stroke patients with active and free community care for the elderly, making stroke patients who are just discharged home obtain continuous medical care which is integrated with the long-term care system.
Diabetes Health Promotion Center In view of the increase of diabetes in Taiwan, we appointed a nurse for diabetes education in 1989, who is responsible for out-patient diabetes health education in order to strengthen the effectiveness of patient education. In 1993, we established a diabetes health education room with the Ministry of Health to promote diabetes care. The diabetes educator and dietitian are responsible for group education and ward individualized education. In 1998, due to continuing increase in diabetes, a health educator increase to a total of two. Besides being responsible to the hospital clinics, individual and group education, we also assist the hospital nurses for diabetes in-service educational training and health education guidance. In 2006, because of continuing increase in diabetes, the health educator increase to a total of three. In 2012, we are awarded the excellent institution to increase the rate of new cases to the “Program of recruitment diabetes health promotion organization to improve the quality of diabetic care" by the National Health Council, and also award of excellence for "Diabetes quality of care program" by the Ministry of Health, Bureau of National Health Insurance.
Holistic Care Division The Holistic Care Division was established on 1 August 2012, led by Dr. Kao-Chang Lin, and the team was composed of 5 physicians (Dr. Meng-Chieh Wu, Dr. Hsin-Kai Huang, Dr. Tzu-Chieh Weng, Dr. Wei-Ci Ke and Dr. Chun-Cheng Jhang). To uphold the concept of holistic care, this division is currently in charge of hospitalized patients care at the Emergency Department and the service may be extended to the Internal Medicine ward in the future.
Asthma case management

*New case and follow-ups
Health education including:

  1. To know the importance of long-term control of asthma.
  2. To understand the symptoms, severity and asthma control status by asthma control test (ACT).
  3. To find out the family history, occupational history and past medical history.
  4. To arrange an asthma treatment plan (monitoring the pulmonary function, avoiding allergens and proper usage of drugs).
  5. To explain the name and dosage of bronchodilators for immediate relieve of symptoms.
  6. To use daily peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) to determine whether their condition is deteriorating.
  7. To seek further medical care if asthma exacerbates.
  8. To educate prevention on diet and everyday life activities by distributing health education leaflets, etc.
  9. To log in your personal information at the Virtual Private Network (VPN) of the Bureau of National Health Insurance and confirm your personal data during application of care expense before deadline of application.

Telephone interview:

A phone interview is made for no return visits within a period of time to understand the reason and their current medical conditions, and assist them with the registration, depending on their willingness.

CKD case management
  1. To recognize the kidney structure and function.
  2. To see the impact of smoking on kidney disease.
  3. To find out the family history, occupational history and past medical history.
  4. To know the common symptoms and test value of kidney disease.
  5. To know on how to do healthcare, prevention and control of kidney disease
  6. To teach intake of medications (including Chinese herbal medicine and health foods) that must consult a physician's opinion first and do not take unsolicited and unclear labeling of drug ingredients.
  7. To understand the correlations between hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia and kidney disease.
  8. To learn the dietary principles for early stage kidney disease and provide health education leaflets.
  9. To refer patients having early chronic kidney disease with deteriorating renal function criteria to the "National Health Insurance Pre-ESRD precautionary programs & patient education programs".
  10. To confirm the individual care application fees and test value whether it comply with the standard before the deadline, and then batch uploading to the Virtual Private Network (VPN) of the Bureau of National Health Insurance until it completely succeed.

 


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