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[The present situation of home-care in Akita]
1Akita Home-Care Clinic.
Abstract:
Akita home-care clinic was developed as the first specialized clinic for home-care in Akita prefecture in October 2007. This report focuses on the progress of our clinic from the opening to the present. Since the covering area for home-care was quite wide, a novel cooperation was essential to be established between our clinic and hospitals, to provide home-care with a certain backup for a sudden change. At first, our clinic cooperated with the medical association, university and general hospitals, the pharmaceutical association, and the nursing association. Also, local newspapers reported a unique style of medical care of our clinic in Akita, resulting in further favorable cooperation with the other medical institutions. My experience as a surgeon has been applied widely for diagnoses and treatments in home-care, such as palliative care and chemotherapy. Our clinic will expand our home-care subjects up to welfare facilities in the future, enabling medical specialists to focus on providing specialized hospital care to their patients. Tight collaboration will be feasible among medical and nursing care institutions and administrative office to establish an appropriate medical network including home-care in Akita.
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