The Hiroshima Medical cooperative has a 186-bed Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital, three medical clinics, and a dental clinic. Members can use these facilities when they get sick. Each facility has member’s committee to reflect the opinions of the members upon operation.
The three clinics of medical cooperative are conducting medical activities centered on internal medicine. We conduct distinctive activities rooted in the community, such as outpatient service as well as health checkup, home care, day service and so on.
The three clinics and Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital are closely tied up. Most of the blood test and urinalysis collected at the clinic are carried out at Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital, and image inspection such as CT and MRI are also conducted at Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital. If patients in clinics need to be hospitalized,they are referred to Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital.
The medical clinics and Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital share the electronic medical record with each other, and the data is centrally managed at Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital. The hospital and clinics can refer to electronic medical records of other facilities. This allows patients to receive treatment smoothly even if they use both clinics and hospital.
Main departments of Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital are as follows.
Internal medicine has specialists of Cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, diabetes, general internal medicine. They can perform coronary catheter intervention, pacemaker implantation, gastroscopy and colonoscopy, diabetes education hospitalization and so on. Because there is no specialist of nephrology , hemodialysis is not available.
Surgery to perform surgery for digestive system diseases and breast cancer. Neurosurgeon is not working.
Orthopedic surgery to perform surgery such as hip joints replacement and hand surgery etc.
Department of Rehabilitation to support all rehabilitation of cerebrovascular, musculoskeltal, respiratory or cardiovascular diseases. In the rehabilitation ward , they do rehabilitation of cerebrovascular disease and musculoskeltal disease. Physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists are also working.
Pediatrics: Kyoritsu hospital is the only hospital to admit children in Asaminami area in Hiroshima city.
Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital deals with secondary emergency cases in Hiroshima city. The hospital accepts ambulances every day and accepts about 1,600 cars per year. In the daytime,we accept emergency patients in all departments but during weekend and nighttime, emergency is limited to internal medicine patients. The hospital accepts about 13% of the ambulance cases in Asaminami-area.
Hiroshima University hospital, Hiroshima prefectural hospital, Hiroshima city hospital are responsible for tertiary emergency cases in Hiroshima prefecture.
Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital plays an important role as a medical institution for inpatient treatment for acute disease or exacerbations of chronic diseases, rehabilitation for recovery stages of stroke and orthopedic surgery patients and palliative care.
From April 2000, the nursing-care insurance system was introdunced in Japan, “socialization of nursing care” started, when the welfare system became a major shift from the measures system to the contract system. In order for a patient to receive nursing care services, at first patient needs to get nursing care certification after consultation with a a doctor. A nursing care service is charged and people needs to pay 10% of their service fee.
In addition, the upper limit is set for nursing care service depending on the level of patient’s disablity.
As home care related projects, we provide short stay service, day service, day care within visiting nursing stations (Momiji, Enokawa), helper station. Three clinics also has day service room for elderly people.
We have three home nursing care support offices,where care managers prepare a care plan and also they serve as a center for various consultations in the community.
Since 2006, we have entrusted Hiroshima city with the consultation of Hiroshima City, we operate the comprehensive center of Yasa-Asanami region, and a system to receive wide consultation such as nursing care prevention plan for “need support”, advocacy of rights of elderly people It is preparing.
There is a counseling room at Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital, who is in charge of consultation of patients and their families as a necessity of cooperation regardless of discharge to home or entry of facilities. We are collaborating with nursing care service providing facilities such as care managers and helper stations to link medical care and nursing care.
Hiroshima Kyoritsu Hospital is a cooperative hospital of two aged health care facilities in Anzanami-ku and one special nursing home for the aged. In addition, when the patient worsens the condition in a welfare facility such as a group home or a medical hospital, he / she is introduced to our hospital for hospital treatment.