/p>The construction of the will be the future is already underway San Juan de Dios Hospital in Incaa center that will be integrated into the chronicity strategy of the Govern de Les Illes Balears and whose entry into operation is scheduled for the summer of next year.
The aim of this center is to bring services closer to citizens in the field of geriatric carewith comprehensive care focused on the recovery of autonomy, especially in the care of patients with brain damage and with chronic diseases derived from aging.
The new hospital will have 80 hospital bedsspread over 44 rooms, and 20 outpatient care placeswhere inquiries from geriatrics, traumatology and rehabilitationas well as consultation (face-to-face or not) with other specialists from the center, Primary Care physicians and nursing staff and case managers.
In addition, you will have a outpatient and home rehabilitation unit and will offer other services such as pharmacy, laboratory or telecare, among others. It will also have a training school and active patients and caregivers.
The construction of this hospital will mean a investment of 11 million euros by and will allow responding to the care needs of the population of Inca and the entire Tramuntana health area.
The start-up of this hospital complex has been possible thanks to the modification of Decree Law 3/2013 on the Public Hospital Network, unanimously approved by Parliament last November, which allows extending the duration from 10 to 20 years of the unique agreements maintained by the Health Service of the Balearic Islands with the non-profit hospitals San Juan de Dios and the Red Cross.
Therefore, the new hospital will be integrated into the Public Hospital Network, will follow the same care model as the and will be coordinated with the Inca Hospital, following the guidelines set by the .
The president of the Balearic Government, Francina Armengolwho has participated in the act of laying the stone of the hospital complex, has highlighted the important “step forward” that this new infrastructure implies in the chronicity strategy of the regional government, noting that «every time we live longer and we need the health system to face this new reality, offering a more appropriate and much more personalized attention«and for it “we need infrastructure”.
In this sense, the Balearic Executive is also working to recover the hospitals of are dureta At mallorca, Virgin of the Bull in Menorca and Can Misses In ibiza. «Our strategy is also to decentralize so that citizens can have the facilities as close as possible“Said the President of the Government.