Other Support Services

Other Support Services 

Functional Medicine:

• Functional Medicine (FM) determines how and why illness occurs and seeks to address the root causes of disease in an individual. A personalized, systems-oriented model for healthcare that empowers patients and practitioners working in collaboration to address the underlying causes of disease.
• FM is an approach to health care that conceptualizes health and illness as part of a continuum in which all components of the human biological system interact dynamically with the environment, producing patterns and effects that change over time. Offers a powerful new operating system and clinical model for assessment, treatment, and prevention of chronic disease to replace the outdated and ineffective acute-care models carried forward from the 20th century.
• It incorporates the latest in genetic science, systems biology, and understanding of how environmental and lifestyle factors influence the emergence and progression of disease. Enables physicians and other health professionals to practice proactive, predictive, personalized medicine and empowers patients to take an active role in their own health

FM addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. It shifts the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach, addressing the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms.

Exercise is Medicine:

• Exercise Is Medicine (EIM) is initiative call for physical activity to be included as a standard part of medical treatment and the patient care process. In routine clinical scenario physician recommendation often limited to “get more exercise”. No instruction on how to exercise safely and effectively no behavioral intervention to help patients adopt and maintain a physically active lifestyle.
• EIM urges healthcare providers to assess the physical activity levels of their patients at every visit, provide physically inactive patients with brief counseling, and/or a referral to a qualified health care professional for exercises.
• Qualified health care professional “Bridge the Gap” with Knowledge and skills in exercise science, exercise testing, exercise prescription, behavioral science, and can work with all individuals ranging from apparently healthy to high-risk clinical populations.

Diabetes screening program: 

• Royal Health Diabetes Centre’s aim is to provide access to the full breadth and depth of diabetes endocrinology care. The centre’s aim is to deliver high quality diabetes and endocrinology care to all of our patients, in the outpatient setting.
• The centre offers the latest innovations in endocrinology care and clinical therapies to adult patients (over the age of 13).
• We provide state-of-the-art tests and procedures to assist in accurate diagnosis and planning of treatment. We listen carefully to our patients’ concerns and try to devise the very best evaluation and treatment plans for each individual.

SUPPORT SERVICES: 

Nursing department:

• Royal Health Heart Centre Nurse duties include in depth patient assessments, working closely with physicians and providing health education to patients and families. Assessing patients for acute and chronic illness, managing those illnesses with medications and other treatments and monitoring for results are among the responsibilities. Nurses may work in different areas including Cardiology Clinics, Pulmonology, Family medicine, Internal medicine, Endocrinology and Cardio-Pulmonary rehabilitation department.

Laboratory:

• Royal Health Heart Centre Laboratories employs Medical Technologists and Medical Laboratory Technicians to perform analytical and diagnostic procedures in the areas of Hematology, Urinalysis, Coagulation, Blood Bank, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Diagnostics, Chemistry, Histology, Cytology, and Point of Care.

Radiology:

• Royal Health Heart Centre in cooperates with the Czech Rehabilitation Hospital radiology department. Czech Rehabilitation Hospital employs Medical Technologists and Medical Radiology Technicians to perform analytical and diagnostic procedures in the areas of x ray, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography, and Point of Care.

Interventional Cath lab procedures: 

• To provide a high-quality diagnostic and interventional service for patients requiring cardiac investigation and intervention.
• The Cardiac Cath lab provides facilities for:
• Diagnostic Angiography
• Permanent Pacemaker insertion and revision
• Reveal Device Implantation
• Trans esophageal Echocardiography
• Direct current Cardio version.
• Patients enter the diagnostic/interventional service either as an elective day case or as an emergency.
• Any patient requiring admission following their procedure is admitted directly to the Cardiac Care Unit or Cardiac Ward. 

Cardiac Rehabilitation

• Cardiac Rehabilitation is the process by which patients with cardiac disease, in partnership with a multidisciplinary team of health professionals are encouraged to support and achieve and maintain optimal physical and psychosocial health. The involvement of partners, other family members and carers is also important.
• The mission of the Cardiac Rehabilitation program is to deliver and provide safe and quality multidisciplinary clinical services for patients who are clinically indicated to receive the Cardiac Rehabilitation treatments and eligible to enroll into the program.
  The vision of the Cardiac Rehabilitation program is to successfully implement new clinical approach of patient care services and treatments that will benefit and improve the health of all patients referred into the Cardiac Rehabilitation program.
• The Cardiac Rehabilitation program will establish an organized patient admission process and a structured multidisciplinary patient care plan specific to the patient’s medical history and current clinical condition which will be completed for the entire course and duration of the treatment.

Interventional Cath lab procedures: 

• To provide a high-quality diagnostic and interventional service for patients requiring cardiac investigation and intervention.
• The Cardiac Cath lab provides facilities for:
• Diagnostic Angiography
• Permanent Pacemaker insertion and revision
• Reveal Device Implantation
• Trans esophageal Echocardiography
• Direct current Cardio version.
• Patients enter the diagnostic/interventional service either as an elective day case or as an emergency.
• Any patient requiring admission following their procedure is admitted directly to the Cardiac Care Unit or Cardiac Ward. 

Cardiac Rehabilitation

• Cardiac Rehabilitation is the process by which patients with cardiac disease, in partnership with a multidisciplinary team of health professionals are encouraged to support and achieve and maintain optimal physical and psychosocial health. The involvement of partners, other family members and carers is also important.
• The mission of the Cardiac Rehabilitation program is to deliver and provide safe and quality multidisciplinary clinical services for patients who are clinically indicated to receive the Cardiac Rehabilitation treatments and eligible to enroll into the program.
  The vision of the Cardiac Rehabilitation program is to successfully implement new clinical approach of patient care services and treatments that will benefit and improve the health of all patients referred into the Cardiac Rehabilitation program.
• The Cardiac Rehabilitation program will establish an organized patient admission process and a structured multidisciplinary patient care plan specific to the patient’s medical history and current clinical condition which will be completed for the entire course and duration of the treatment.

Occupational Health support service:

• Occupational Health support service providers in Royal Health Heart Centre looks at the interface between work and health and covers all areas that can arise during the course of employment. Occupational health is evidenced based and investigates the conditions that create risks to health.
• The aim of occupational health is to prevent work-related illness and injury by encouraging safe working practices, ergonomics, monitoring the health of the workforce and supporting the management of sickness absence.

Public awareness:

• Royal Health Heart Centre ensure its commitment towards the general population by conducting regular public awareness program which includes
• Campaigning’s in areas where there is open assembly
• Free medical screening for the general population and for the corporate clients.
• Organizing continued medical education internally and external to the royal Health Heart Centre for sharing the knowledge and to play a vital role in uplifting service quality of the medical professionals.
• Providing Doctor’s second opinion for the needed)if needed).