160 NH Iruña Park Hotel Rooms Prepared for Home Hospitalized Patients
- This measure will allow the hospital area to be liberated. It will also be open to people who do not qualify for isolation in their homes.
The Department of Health works on the adequacy of eight of the ten floors of the NH Iruña Park hotel in Pamplona for coronavirus patients hospitalized at home. Thanks to this new resource, which will be available from today, this type of income will add up to 160 more places.
The Department of Health has put in place the health of this hotel, which will offer the same care as in a hospital, optimizing resources and freeing spaces in hospitals. As of today, almost twenty health professionals will serve patients in groups consisting of a doctor, a nurse and a nurse, who will be responsible for receiving information about the patient, and will make daily visits to people at the hotel. In addition, in the evening, one doctor and two nurses will attend to the incidents that occur.
This resource will also be available to patients who are currently hospitalized and who may continue treatment at home but who do not meet the necessary requirements to maintain isolation. In this sense, the Health Department wanted to thank the volunteer firefighters who in recent days have worked on the adequacy of the hotel spaces.
Faster constitution and lower risk
Home hospitalization is a care model capable of providing patients with the medical and nursing care of a hospital when they do not need hospital infrastructure, but still require active medical care and complex care.
As for conventional hospitalization, it has many advantages, as it is performed in a more well-known and comfortable environment, along with family members, it avoids hospitalized infections, patients become less oriented and recovery is faster. In addition, this form of hospitalization allows a better use of health resources and improves coordination between professional teams of primary and specialized care.
50 New Emergency Care Posts
In addition, the Department of Health has announced the adaptation of the basement of the Emergency Building of the Hospital Complex of Navarra, in collaboration with the Red Cross of Navarra, in the process of adaptation and permanent reorganization of the Health System of Navarra, in anticipation of an increase in the number of patients who come to the emergency room. Specifically, a care circuit has been organized for patients with mild respiratory pathology, to care for about 50 people.
