Profile of Nagoya University Hospital 2012

• Idea/Basic Decision
• Declaration Regarding Patients' Rights and Responsibilities
• Message From the Director

• Idea, Basic Decision, History
• Organization Chart of University Hospital
• Organization Chart of Administration Office
• Chronological List of Directors of University Hospital
• Established Date of Clinical Departments
• Clinical Departments
• Legal Authorization of Medical Services
• University Hospital Staff, Number of Staffs
• Number of Beds
• Patient Services in the University Hospital in 2011
• Clinical Indicator
• Access

Community Liaison Center

Director ISHIGURO, Naoki (Professor)

Liaison with communities to focus on the quality of life of patients

This center supports liaison with communities in medical services, nursing, and care.

Operation System

This center has personnel from various fields: three doctors, five nurses, six medical social workers, and 15 administrative staff. Featuring cross-functional collaboration groups, the center provides various support programs that link hospitals and local communities. The major tasks of the center are:
- Supporting patients when they leave the hospital
- Acceptance of patient into the hospital
- Provide hospital information
- Consultations with patients
- Promotion programs for collaboration

Scope of Medical Services

Local support nurses and medical social workers collaboratively provide coordination of homecare and transfer of hospitals to support patients when they leave the hospital. Hospital-to-Clinic Collaboration Group conducts administrative work on hospital-to-clinic collaboration and hospital-to-hospital collaboration (providing and accepting introduction). In addition, the center provides a wide range of counseling about cures, medical and welfare systems for cures, provides information on social resource utilization, and patient support.

Features

To flexibly cope with functions required for local collaboration, this center employs a cross-functional structure that integrates various fields. Establishing a support structure that places importance on patients as living people and their quality of life is the center's goal.

Medical Service Results

The number of patients who receive supports when discharging hospital has been gradually increasing, totaling 939 in fiscal year 2011. The number of registered doctors promoting collaboration among medical facilities in the community exceeded 1,500 as of March 2012. This center proactively holds lectures for registered doctors, workshops on community collaboration among multiple occupations, and in-house workshops on support for patients discharge.

Other Undertakings

The center plans and hosts a variety of symposiums with the keywords of "local collaboration".