Ministry of Health and Welfare Expands 'Long-term Care Home Medical Center Pilot Project' to 100 Sites

The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced on the 14th that it will expand the 'Long-term Care Home Medical Center Pilot Project' to 100 locations next year for long-term care insurance beneficiaries who have difficulty visiting medical institutions due to mobility issues. The Long-term Care Home Medical Center Pilot Project is a system where medical staff and social workers visit homes directly to provide medical services. The target recipients of the pilot project services will also be expanded from the existing long-term care grades 1 to 4 to include grade 5 and cognitive support grades.

As a result of implementing the Long-term Care Home Medical Center Pilot Project at 28 locations for one year starting from December last year, services were provided to 1,993 people as of the September claims. More than 80% of users responded that "the Long-term Care Home Medical Center helps the elderly continue to live in their communities."

The application period for the second pilot project is until the 8th of next month. Medical institutions wishing to participate in the pilot project must form a team consisting of a doctor, nurse, and social worker, and be able to continuously manage patients through home visits by a doctor once a month, a nurse twice a month, and care service linkage through a social worker.

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