Home-based nursing care for patients.
Home-based palliative care for patients.
Residents of the North Coast community.
The Home Care Center of the National Taiwan University Hospital, Jinshan Branch, is people-oriented and promotes a continuous and integrated home care model. It combines interdisciplinary teams, connects with the North Coast ACP network, and promotes the North Coast Heroes Integration Alliance to provide innovative services such as home care, palliative care, dream fulfillment projects, and care for bereaved families, becoming a model for home care and palliative care.
Continuous Integrated Home Care Model
Taiwan's first home care team combining NPOs, NGOs, and philanthropists for dream-fulfilling projects and vulnerable care
Taiwan's first home care team to regularly provide care for bereaved families
Forming a home swallowing care team, increasing the success rate of planned nasogastric tube removal from 23% to 75%
Home-based video care for stress injuries
Connecting the North Coast ACP network
North Coast Heroes Integration Alliance
Promoting rapid home-based screening, rapid response, and video consultations during the pandemic
Family Meetings Held: 100%
Dream Realization Project: 2 people in 2021, 2 people in
2022, 4 people in 2023, 2 people in 2024
Home-based Video Care for Stress Injuries: 107 people
served since September 2021
Home-based Care Drives Life Care Decision Making: Home-
based teams reach over 10,000 people annually
Home Care Practitioners Invited to Share Their Experiences
at Over 30 Domestic Seminars from 2021 to 2024
Over 500 People Visited Industry, Academia, and Research
Institutions
Incidence of home-based pressure injuries decreased by 1.3% from 2.1%.
Prevalence of home-based pressure injuries of grade 3 or higher decreased from 11.8% to 6.8%.
Healing rate of home-based pressure injuries of grade 3 or higher increased from 3.4% to 11.6%.
Utilization rate of long-term care resources for home-based patients increased from 20.3% to 30.3%.
Home-based patients' DNR (Disease-Responsible Person) signing rate increased from 68.4% to 81%.
Home-based patients' AD (Advanced Individualized Care) signing rate: 80%.
Home-based patients' in-home mortality rate increased from 73.3% in 2021 to 81% in 2023.
Home-based patients' wishful thinking mortality rate increased from 91.3% in 2021 to 94% in 2023.
The success rate of planned nasogastric tube removal for home-based patients increased from 23% to 75%.
The prevalence of grade 3-4 or higher pressure injuries at home decreased from 11.8% to 4.97%.
The wound healing rate for grade 3-4 or higher pressure injuries at home increased from 3.4% to 11.6%.
The DNR (Disease-Related Injury) signing rate for home-based cases was 81%.
The AD (Adverse Events) signing rate for home-based cases was 80%.
Incidence of home-based pressure injuries: 1.1% in 2023
CPR received by home-based patients before death: <1%
Incidence of home-based pressure injuries decreased by 1.3% from 2.1%
Prevalence of home-based pressure injuries of grade 3 or higher decreased from 11.8% to 6.8%
Healing rate of home-based pressure injuries of grade 3 or higher increased from 3.4% to 11.6%
Utilization rate of long-term care resources for home-based patients increased from 20.3% to 30.3%
Home-based patients' DNR (Disease-Responding) signing rate increased from 68.4% to 81%
Home-based patients' AD (Advanced Individualized Care) signing rate: 80%
Home-based patient mortality rate increased from 73.3% in 2021 to 81% in 2023
Home-based patient survival rate increased from 91.3% in 2021 to 94% in 2023.
Success rate of planned nasogastric tube removal for home-based patients increased from 23% to 75%.
Prevalence of grade 3-4 or higher pressure injuries at home decreased from 11.8% to 4.97%.
Wound healing rate for grade 3-4 or higher pressure injuries at home increased from 3.4% to 11.6%.
Home-based case diagnosis and treatment (DNR) signing rate: 81%.
Home-based case treatment and treatment (AD) signing rate: 80%.
Patient satisfaction rate for home care: 96.4%
Average satisfaction rate of bereaved families participating
in bereaved family care activities: 97.4%
Average satisfaction rate of staff participating in bereaved
family care activities: 96.7%
Satisfaction rate of foreign caregivers participating in
workshops: 97 points
Presented multiple posters at the Asia Pacific Hospice Conference
Participated in oral and mini-oral presentations at the International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals & Health Services (Bologna, Italy)
Participated in an e-poster presentation at the International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals & Health Services (Hiroshima, Japan)
Assisted the Taiwan Nursing Association with BBC international media coverage
Assisted in writing books on community care, home-based palliative care, and long-term care
Hosted visits from various domestic and international organizations, including: Kochi University (Japan), the Red Cross Society of China, Mahidol University (Thailand), the Shanghai Jiading General Practitioner Training Group, Thai health authorities, the Qingdao Young Physicians Visiting and Training Group, Peking Union Medical College, the Beijing CR Phoenix Medical Team, the Indonesian Foreign Visitors Visiting Group, the Hong Kong Ming Ai Elderly Care Service Team, the Honduran Medical Team, the Japan Surgical Association, the Belize Ministry of Health, and Japanese home healthcare physicians, etc.
In line with government policies and upholding the first line of defense for home care in the North Coast, in addition to general home care, we also undertake institutional palliative care, home-based palliative care, community-based palliative care, long-term care 2.0 home care, integrated home medical care projects, and the government-driven pilot program for in-home emergency care.
100% home-based family meeting rate – Facing life bravely, we conduct multiple communications and break down barriers.
Implementing community-based home care and rooting medical humanities education.
Promoting and evaluating the effectiveness of life care decision-making; the team is responsible for promoting advance care planning consultations and hospice care in the North Coast area, and assisting and connecting North Coast health centers in establishing and conducting ACP consultations.
The North Coast Heroes Integration Alliance connects the four districts of the North Coast, supplementing the resource deficiencies of Long-Term Care 2.0.
Community-based home hospice care coverage is higher than the world average; the home mortality rate and the rate of wishful death are higher than the world average.
A pioneering initiative nationwide: the original home care team continuously tracks bereaved families and regularly holds bereaved family care activities, and has been conducting regular follow-up and tracking for 10 consecutive years.
