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Santa Casa de Limeira is a non-profit hospital located in the city of Limeira, São Paulo state, Brazil. Santa Casa de Limeira has 1,200 employees and 300 doctors. It has a surgical complex with 8 operating rooms and 4 pediatric operating rooms, as well as 26 ICU beds and 12 dedicated beds in the Burn Treatment Unit (UTQ).
This hospital serves more than 88 cities in the region in various specialties, such as high-risk pregnancy, neurosurgery, burns, and orthopedics.
It is a reference in the treatment of burns in the state of São Paulo, where we have a reduced number of specialized hospitals.
The Burn Treatment Unit at Santa Casa has an occupancy rate of about 80% and has only one set of equipment to perform surgeries on burn patients. Due to the high occupancy rate, it is necessary to increase the number of specialized equipment for burn surgeries. In the current situation, burn patients need to remain in the hospital longer than necessary, waiting for surgery. This period can be very dangerous for patients with high-level burns.
The Burn Treatment Unit (BTU) serves an average of 450 patients per year.
The "Modernization of the Burn Treatment Unit (BTU)" project of the Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Limeira has the following primary objectives:
1. Technological Modernization: Acquire and incorporate state-of-the-art equipment (Electrosuction Unit, Dermatome, Skin Expander, Multiparameter Monitors and Transport Pulmonary Ventilators) into the BTU's technological infrastructure, ensuring that the unit operates with the most advanced medical technology available.
2. Improving the Quality and Safety of Care: Improve the quality and safety of surgical procedures and treatment offered to burn patients, ensuring more effective and less invasive care.
3. Optimization of Procedures and Risk Reduction: To provide better surgical outcomes, reduce blood loss, minimize the risk of infection, and avoid less safe alternative methods for skin grafting.
4. Accelerated Recovery and Reduced Length of Stay: Contribute to faster patient recovery, decrease the length of stay in the unit, and consequently increase the availability of beds for new admissions.
5. Increased Operational Performance: Improve the efficiency and agility of the medical and care team, offering tools that ensure greater autonomy, better clinical outcomes, and more fluid processes.
6. Sustainability and Long-Term Savings: Generate savings for the institution over time, reducing maintenance costs with old equipment and benefiting from the longer lifespan and lower replacement cost of new technologies.
Project Beneficiaries:
The direct and indirect beneficiaries of this project are diverse and include:
1. Burn Patients: Primarily, burn victims requiring specialized treatment, including those treated by the Unified Health System (SUS), who will receive assistance with cutting-edge technology, greater safety, and shorter recovery time.
2. Population of the Piracicaba and Campinas Region: The Burn Unit is the only specialized burn unit in these regions, which encompass 26 municipalities of DRS 10 and more than 80 cities, directly impacting over 1 million people. Modernization ensures the continuity and improvement of this essential service for the entire community served.
3. Brotherhood of the Holy House of Mercy of Limeira (ISCML): The institution will benefit from maintaining its position as a reference center, improving its technological infrastructure, increasing operational efficiency, and achieving long-term financial sustainability.
4. Medical and Care Team: Healthcare professionals will have access to modern equipment that facilitates procedures, increases patient safety, and optimizes their work routines, promoting a more efficient and skilled work environment.
5. Unified Health System (SUS): By increasing the capacity and efficiency of a reference unit, the project contributes to strengthening the public health network, offering highly complex treatments and reducing the overload on other units.
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