On February 2020, 2, the social welfare corporation Saiseikai Hyogo Prefectural Hospital (Kita-ku, Kobe City) and Hyogo College of Medicine Sasayama Medical Center (Tamba-Sasayama City) collaborated to provide safe and secure perinatal care. Conclude an agreement. On January 1, 2020, the signing ceremony was held at Saiseikai Hyogo Prefectural Hospital.
The Sasayama Medical Center has been in charge of perinatal care in the Tamba-Sasayama area for many years.However, due to the shortage of obstetricians, delivery will be suspended at the end of March 2020.Therefore, from February, we will cooperate with Saiseikai Hyogo Prefectural Hospital in Kita-ku, Kobe to establish a system to provide perinatal medical care to local residents without interruption.
Saiseikai Hyogo Prefectural Hospital has been designated by Hyogo Prefecture as a "Regional Perinatal Maternal and Child Medical Center" (a medical institution that constantly handles relatively advanced medical practices related to the perinatal period) and has a NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). It has a fulfilling perinatal medical system.
After April 2020, pregnant women undergoing maternity examinations at the Sasayama Medical Center may receive delivery and pre-delivery medical care at Saiseikai Hyogo Prefectural Hospital if desired, and postpartum care at the Sasayama Medical Center. can.In addition, we will implement an "open system" that accepts on-site medical care by obstetricians and midwives at the Sasayama Medical Center at Saiseikai Hyogo Prefectural Hospital.
Maintaining regional perinatal care has become an issue throughout the country.This cooperation agreement makes effective use of limited medical resources including human resources, and "consolidation of delivery functions", "role division of perinatal medical functions", and "close and smooth medical cooperation" in a wider area. It is likely to be a model case for maintaining community medical care.
