The first state House of Mercy in Russia is being built in St. Petersburg
Evgenia Dyleva, IA REGNUM
The first nursing department created in the social protection system is designed for 100 people.
The official opening date of the building, which has so far received the informal name of the House of Mercy, is January 1, 2016, but the names of the first 12 of its inhabitants are already known: these are elderly people who are in hospitals, but they can no longer serve themselves, and there is no one to help. They will be transferred from city hospitals to this house, from the healthcare system to the social sphere.
"Poklonnogortsy" plus…"The efficiency factor is obvious – we are releasing medical beds," Alexander Rzhanenkov, chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee for Social Protection, explained to IA REGNUM.
A new house is being built next to the boarding house No. 1 on Poklonnaya Gora, where the elderly and disabled live, and a new institution will be created on this basis. There are analogues in other regions of Russia, but they are designed for 15-20 places and work within the healthcare system.
"The places are intended for temporary (for 21 days) and permanent residence of elderly people – men over 60 years old, women over 55 years old and disabled people of groups I and II with vascular diseases of the brain and the consequences of a stroke, who are on permanent bed rest, in need of constant outside care and supervision," she said about the future Natalia Naumova, head of the department for coordinating the activities of subordinate institutions of the city Committee for Social Policy, said: "For 21 days there will be those who have someone to pick up..." But many simply do not have relatives, and some have houses.
Officials promise that the residents of the House of Mercy will also be provided with psychological and legal support. The rooms in the new house are designed for two. The deadline for putting the building into operation is December 15.
You can find out about the work of the institution and the rules of admission to it by contacting the integrated center for social services of the population or the department of social protection of the population of the Kalininsky district of St. Petersburg.
Background of the issueFor the first time, the need for specialized, "nursing" care not at home, but in special institutions in St. Petersburg was thought about in the mid-1990s, when the number of abandoned old people and homeless people - urban and newcomers - increased dramatically.
There was nowhere to discharge them from hospitals. Often, such patients were "forgotten" by relatives, whom doctors called "related terrorists". Such "children" and "grandchildren" attached grandparents to ordinary hospitals and disappeared along with documents, and often warrants for apartments.
Then, on the basis of the closed ambulance hospital No. 29 on the Petrograd side, a nursing hospital was created. Later, she was transferred as a ward to Hospital No. 8, which began the history of nursing care in the city.
The decree of the Government of St. Petersburg on the establishment of one of the first nursing services in Russia in the city appeared in 2001. At the same time, the rules of its work were developed. In 2014, there were 322 nursing beds in various hospitals in the city.
Price and queueThe cost of staying in the future House of Mercy will be equal to the amount due from the inhabitant of any of the social protection boarding houses for "non-bedridden" elderly and disabled people 75% of the average per capita income of a citizen (for a single person whose pension, for example, is 10 thousand rubles, is 7,500 rubles per month).
In hospitals, you have to pay two or even three times more for such nursing care.
According to the data of the St. Petersburg Committee on Health, for many years the waiting list for hospitalization in the nursing departments of city clinics ranges from 200 to 300 people. In autumn and winter it increases.
When the patient's stay in such a bed was over, and he had nowhere to go, they tried to transfer him to a social protection institution. "Age is inherent in human genes and can be equal to 120 years. We have been "growing and growing" before, but life expectancy has increased, and the average age of the inhabitants of our boarding houses is about 70 years. These people can serve themselves, and God grant them health, but the queue is moving slowly," commented Alexander Rzhanenkov.
According to the St. Petersburg Information and Analytical Service, about 30% of 1 million 294 thousand pensioners are single. If they become "bedridden", a nurse or a place in a Mercy Home will be needed.
How to keep the frames?
"The shortage of middle and junior staff in healthcare is a byword, and in the social sphere it is a byword with a longer and more difficult history," Natalia Naumova explained. – Today, the salary of nurses in both spheres has been equalized to 35 thousand rubles, and still the prestige of the profession is not too high, there are all chances to get a more monetary and not so hard work in the private medical sector – people are leaving."
According to experts, in order to retain staff, it is necessary to solve the issue of bonuses and preferences – for example, the provision of office housing. You can focus on the best examples: they say that in some countries sisters of mercy often become "beauty queens", as a prerequisite for participation in a prestigious national competition is at least a small, but the experience of social service.
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