Disability with potentional improvement、Profound and Moderate Disability、Dementia、Long-Term Bedridden
As the Nation's first residential long-term care institution affiliated with a medical center, we are positioned as a "care relaying station for patients with ritical, complex, rare, and difficult-to-manage diseases." We are dedicated to integrating interdisciplinary teams and local community resources to implement the LIFE philosophy, helping residents achieve healthy aging and delay disability:
Love: Love as the foundation; respecting and perceiving family needs to provide high-quality service.
Innovation: Human-centric technology; integrating care into lean processes with intelligent and ambitious innovation.
Friendly: A friendly environment; thoughtful and convenient home-decor to demonstrate the glorious life
Empower: Co-construction through empowerment; safely revitalizing self-reliance functions, originating from and returning to love.
We expect that under the institution's professional care, residents can return home or transfer to community-based long-term care institutions, as we dedicate to build a warm haven for empowering, intelligent care and cherishing our older people.
Intelligent Care Systems:Smart Care Mattress System、Human-Centric Lighting、Chatbot、Long-Term Care Information System develop (Long-term care operational dashboard、Six-Grid Layout Communication Board、4MS dashboard、Cloud-based medication system、Seamless data integration between clinical medical systems and long-term care management systems.
Empowerment Care: Provision of diverse assistive technologies to support individualized rehabilitation therapy, self-reliance support training, deglutition and speech therapy ,Cognitive and Physical Maintenance programs designed to maintain activities of daily living (ADLs) and delay the progression of cognitive decline.
Approval for Establishment: 88 beds, with an occupancy rate of 98.8%.
Referral sources: Hospitals (67.0%), home/family (18.7%), and other long-term care facilities.
Age distribution: Patients aged 60 and above account for 97.7%.
Disability level: 79.3% of residents are classified as severe disability or above.
Decannulation success rate: 17.6%
Nasogastric tube removal success rate: 31.4%
Urinary catheter removal success rate: 61.1%
Home discharge rate: 10.4%
Potentially Inappropriate Medication : Decreased from 58.6% to 46.0%.
Incidence of falls: < 0.2%
Adverse events: 0 cases
Incidence of infection: 5.2%
Unplanned hospitalization rate: 7.6%
Overall satisfaction, including "Satisfied" and "Very Satisfied," reached 90%
The team has published a total of 3 academic poster presentations in fields related to geriatric long-term care.
Benchmark Institution for Gender-Friendly Environments in Long-Term Care Facilities
Excellence Performance in infection control audit for long-term care facilities in Kaohsiung City
Cultural Adaptation and Professional Care Skill Enhancement for Migrant Workers.