Zwolle – Isala, Medical Center Leeuwarden and Wilhelmina Hospital Assen have jointly submitted a rapid test for a monitoring center for specialist care in the home situation.
Medical Coordination Center Northeast Netherlands
Under the working title Medical Coordination Center (MCC) Northeast Netherlands, this center will organize specialist care at home for patients in the Northeast Netherlands. Consider, for example, monitoring complex wounds or coordinating hybrid care during treatment with medication. This prevents or shortens hospital admissions, gives the patient more control and allows recovery to take place in a familiar home situation. Previous experience shows that recovery is faster at home, and patients feel more comfortable there.
Initially, three hospitals joined forces. They intend to collaborate with more hospitals, general practitioners and other healthcare institutions in the longer term to increase volume and improve quality. Initial exploratory discussions have already been held with RIVO Noord, UMCG and Zorg bij Jou (Martini Hospital) about the possibilities for collaboration. Michèle Blom (Board of Isala): “I think it is very nice that we are starting with three northern hospitals to treat patients with complex conditions at home. The patient, his family and friends do not come to us, but we go to our patients ourselves: the hospital comes to your home! And we do this safely by continuously keeping our finger on the pulse via remote monitoring.
Collaboration and sharing knowledge
Due to the experiences with specialist care at home that have been gained in Isala, this initiative does not start from scratch. In recent years, Isala has moved a lot of specialist care home, resulting in very satisfied patients. Sharing this knowledge and experience is an important part of this collaboration. Hans Mulder (WZA Board of Directors): “The WZA has been monitoring low-complexity care for some time and will now also focus on highly complex care. I am happy that these types of collaborations are getting off the ground in the Northeast Netherlands. Collaboration and sharing knowledge and experience will help us all further!”
Ben van Miltenburg, director at Medical Center Leeuwarden, completely agrees with this: “The MCL has also gained a lot of experience in monitoring low-complexity care and is taking the step towards more complex care with this collaboration. We are convinced that this is only possible in collaboration with other hospitals.”
The three hospitals are very enthusiastic about this collaboration and expect that health insurers will seize the opportunity to finance this plan from the transformation funds. They expect to hear in May whether the rapid test has been approved so that they can take the next step, the transformation proposal.
They call on all hospitals in the Northeast Netherlands to enter into discussions with them and explore how they can jointly move even more specialist care home.
