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Hospice Casa Sperantei Foundation helped over 12.000 patients since 1992
07/27/2011 I Source HOSPICE Casa Sperantei
The Hospice Casa Sperantei Foundation is the first and leading organization in Romania dedicated to the development of palliative care by providing medical assistance, social, psycho-emotional and spiritual support for patients with life-threatening diseases and their families in their centers in Brasov and Bucharest as well as in some rural areas. The new Annual Report launched on 15th of July presents the achievements in 2010 and announces the plan to open up Bucharest’s first inpatient teaching hospice.
According to Hospice Casa Sperantei’s Annual Report 2010 in the Brasov clinic there were 380 admissions to the adult’s inpatient unit, 1389 new patients were admitted to the services and 9666 home care visits were undertaken. The children’s inpatient unit had 295 admissions for a 5-10 day period. After discharge adults and children continued to be visited by the hospice team in their homes.
Professional doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, therapist and chaplains work together and provide free of charge, specialized services for adults and children adapted to their disease. Patients can be cared for either at home by the home care team or in the inpatients units as well as in the day centers or the outpatient clinic – as they wish and adapted to the stage of evolution of their disease.
The hospice in Brasov is a centr
e of excellence and Hospice Casa Sperantei plans to build an urgently needed inpatient teaching hospice in Bucharest. Efforts towards setting up the hospice in Bucharest progressed very successfully in 2010 with an Honorary Patrons’ Board attracting huge support for the project.
The board consists of influential members such as the American, British, Italian and Canadian ambassadors, as well as CEOs of major international companies, i.e. Vodafone, the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline and Raiffeisen Bank.
The Honorary Patrons Board was founded at the end of 2009 by GlaxoSmithKline Romania’s former General Manager Patrick Desbiens. GlaxoSmithKline has been a long term supporter of Hospice Casa Sperantei with high involvement towards their work in Brasov and Bucharest and have had a huge impact for the Bucharest hospice appeal.
NOTE FOR THE EDITORS
The Hospice Casa Sperantei Foundation is the first charity in Romania with a mission to care for incurable, terminally ill patients, especially cancer patients. The services that Hospice provides, “specialized palliative care services”, contribute to the improvement of the patients’ quality of life, through pain and symptom management, and psycho-emotional, social and spiritual support. The services we provide are 100% free and target the population in Brasov, Brasov County, and Bucharest.
Palliative Care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
(Ref: National cancer control programmes: policies and managerial guidelines, 2nd ed. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2002, https://apps.who.int/dsa/justpub/cpl.htm)
