Suncheon City Selected as an Excellent Institution for 'Community Integrated Care Service'

Consecutive 2-Year Commendation from the Minister of Health and Welfare

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City (Mayor Heo Seok) has been selected as an excellent institution for the second consecutive year in the "Community Integrated Care Service Provision" category of this year's regional welfare project evaluation hosted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

In this evaluation, Suncheon City was recognized for excellence in eight areas including the fidelity of the community integrated care project plan, participation of experts from public institutions and private organizations, establishment of a community linkage system for discharged patients, and provision of integrated services for housing, healthcare, and nursing care.

Community integrated care is a care policy that integrates various services such as housing, healthcare, and nursing care to support residents to spend their remaining lives empathetically with neighbors in their own communities rather than in hospitals or facilities.

Suncheon City directly provides 25 care services including Donggodongrak Care Safe Housing, where housing and care can be received in one place, home visit medical care, meal support, housekeeping care, and residential convenience facilities. It also discovers care projects suitable for Suncheon by linking services through interdepartmental collaboration and multi-professional, multi-agency cooperation.

A Suncheon City official said, "We will expand the support targets so that anyone in need of care can receive care services regardless of specific class or income level, creating a Suncheon-type care model where both those receiving care and their caregiving families are happy and the community becomes warmer."

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