Bucheon-si Launches Pilot Project for Home Medical Care Center... Leading Community Integrated Care

Medical staff from the Home Medical Care Center are visiting the homes of elderly individuals with mobility difficulties to check their health status. [Provided by Bucheon City]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Bucheon City in Gyeonggi Province announced on the 26th that it is promoting a pilot project for a home medical care center to establish a regional-care linkage system for realizing community care, a government national agenda.

Bucheon Citizens' Clinic of Bucheon Medical Welfare Social Cooperative, a participating medical institution in Bucheon City's community integrated care home visit medical service, was selected as a medical institution for the home medical care center pilot project based on years of experience in home visit medical care.

The home medical care team, consisting of doctors, nurses, social workers, and occupational therapists, provides comprehensive home visit medical services including medical care, long-term care, care service linkage, and monitoring to recipients of long-term care benefits (grades 1 to 4) who have mobility difficulties and require home medical care.

Patients who previously only took medication without face-to-face consultations, with family members proxy-prescribing the medication, can now have their health status checked through visits by the home medical care center staff, which is expected to prevent disease aggravation and complications.

Costs associated with using the home medical care center will incur partial out-of-pocket expenses for health insurance-covered home visit medical fees, depending on the recipient's health status and prescription details.

Jo Yong-ik, Mayor of Bucheon City, stated, "We will continue to strengthen preventive and integrated care through leading community integrated care projects that link multiple fields such as medical care, care, housing, and IoT based on public-private cooperation, advancing care services linked to national agendas."

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