Application to the National Health Fund for the liquidation of the 24-hour ward in exchange for 50 percent. So far, 25 hospitals have applied for a lump sum payment over the next two years, seven of which have received a positive decision – writes “Rzeczpospolita”.
Pursuant to the regulation that entered into force in February, a hospital may receive half of the existing funds for the next two years if the facility closes a given department. No hospital that received permission from the National Health Fund to close its 24-hour ward decided to completely suspend treatment.
Hospitals have chosen the second option – replacing a 24-hour unit with one that operates on an elective or same-day basis, or converting beds for long-term care.
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Seven hospitals received the National Health Fund's decision
Two maternity wards from Podkarpacie received consent from the National Health Fund for the transformation: w Leżajsk (now there is a gynecology department on a single day, as well as a gynecology and obstetrics clinic) and in Lesko (created gynecological and obstetrics clinic).
Three hospitals in Greater Poland also received consent. IN Chodzież gynecology was excluded from the gynecology and obstetrics department, which now operates on a scheduled basis. The same thing happened with 24-hour surgery.
The maternity ward closed in Radzyń Podlaski in the Lublin Voivodeship. Instead, gynecology was established in the so-called one day mode.
He also resigned from the surgical department Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration in Poznań. However, the facility did not receive a bonus in the form of half of the current lump sum for two consecutive years.
Hospital director Magdalena Kuncewicz explains that the provisions of the regulation in practice exclude such a possibility in the case of units that have achieved overperformance. — Moreover, the liquidation of the general surgery subward in our hospital was aimed at transforming some of the beds into a one-day surgery department. Unfortunately, the valuation of the point value that we received for the new contract for one-day surgery is drastically lower than the price of the point in the previous contract, which included (24-hour) general surgery – explains, quoted by “Rz.
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In Greater Poland, changes were also carried out by the Specialist Hospital in Pilewhere 24/7 ophthalmology now operates on a scheduled basis.
SP ZOZ also resigned from 24-hour ophthalmology Kędzierzyn-Koźle.
16 hospitals are waiting for a decision
16 hospitals are still waiting for the National Health Fund's decision on the liquidation of the 24-hour ward, and two facilities have withdrawn their applications in this matter.
So far, most reports have been received by the Provincial Branch of the National Health Fund in Silesia.
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Source: Rzeczpospolita
