Process of Strengthening of the Network of Rehabilitation Services
Inés Elvira Houses, Blanca Venegas | Physical therapists Foundation of the Burned
The District Secretary of Health considered as one of its priorities, the strengthening of the network of rehabilitation services, through the improvement of the institutional capacity and human talent to positively impact the quality of care for people on disability status or with deficiencies and limitations or restrictions transitional.
That is why, since February 2016, the process is initiated with the aim of monitoring the quality of care in the rehabilitation services in the Foundation of the Burned.
In this visit reflects the fact that the institution in its policy includes aspects aimed to humanize the care of and provide quality services to the population, taking into account the diversity; aid to vulnerable populations with disability caused by burns, the foundation has identified their responsibilities in the implementation of the Public Policy of Disability decree 470, 2007; with the completion of training and disclosure of such policy; the rehabilitation service implements actions to the guarantee of rights and social inclusion of persons with disabilities (Pwd) and their families through training, mechanisms for promoting the active participation of Pwd and their families. According to the result of the visit, they give the guidelines in areas of improvement and start the phase of Institutional Strengthening.
During the years 2017, 2018 and 2019, is doing a great job with the monitoring and auditing constant of the Secretary of Health, in these visits are intended to make up the offer of rehabilitation services and counseling, and technical assistance in the institution.
From this date therapists, members of the physiotherapy service is responsible for part of the socialization and training of human talent, starting with the information that the District Secretary of Health gives providers of Rehabilitation Services.
It socializes the Public policy of disability and social inclusion PPDIS from the awareness of the work of the Foundation is done the setting of the PPDIS in the Foundation, restructures the Mission and Institutional Vision and in each of the services that are offered.
Have been made to processes of training in subjects related to differential approach, the Convention of rights of persons with disabilities, Law 1145, 2007, resolution 3317, 2012, guidelines for the construction of Public Policies on Disability issued by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, among others.
The implementation in the service of physical therapy involved, in addition, the application of the “International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health –CIF-“WHO.
The International Classification of Functioning, disability and health) approved and recommended by WHO, establishes the beginning of a new era in the clinical practice, patient-oriented. Designed to be applied as a clinical tool, research, statistics, social policy and education. Its main goal is to unify and standardize the language for the description of health and their states by improving communication and facilitating the comparison of data between health professionals in different fields at the international level. The CIF is based on the biopsychosocial model of the WHO, of which there are its components on the structure of the classification that consists of 1 454 categories, allowing you to describe broadly the profile of functioning or disability of the persons or populations.[1]
This whole process has enabled us to make a improvement to provide new and better tools to the patients attending the service and to be references such as rehabilitation service in the capital, for the improvement of the conditions and the quality of the health services provided to persons in the disability, or with deficiencies and limitations or restrictions transitional.
[1] JOYCE LAVNCHY. Rehabil. comprehensive 2011; 6 (1): 33-45. International classification of functioning, disability and health (icf) and its application in rehabilitation