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Hořovice application was successful in the evaluation of an expert committee composed of representatives of the Czech Neonatological Society and representatives of the Section of Perinatal Medicine. They recommended to the health insurance companies that the Hořovice Hospital be granted the status of a Perinatology Centre. A total of twenty intermediate care centres applied for this status, but only eleven of them obtained it.
"This news is very gratifying for us, it is another proof of our good results", says Luděk Pelikán, MD, Director of Hořovice Hospital, with a certain amount of pride. The Perinatology Centre is a workplace providing comprehensive care for the most serious conditions occurring during pregnancy, childbirth and six months of life, both in the mother and in the fetus and newborn. According to the director of the Hořovice hospital, these are mainly critical conditions threatening the life of the mother or the fetus, such as various heart diseases or other serious diseases of the mother accompanying pregnancy, premature births, etc.
The neonatology department with an intensive and intermediate care unit under the leadership of the experienced head of the hospital Milena Dokoupilová, MD, has been operating within the Hořovice Hospital for several years. "The performance of our Gynaecology and Obstetrics Department, i.e. the number of deliveries and the number of immature newborns, as well as the current presence of the Children's Department, was undoubtedly crucial in the positive assessment of our application," adds MUDr. Pelikán, who recalls that in the same month the PCIMP status was granted to, for example, the Na Bulovce Hospital or the Ostrava City Hospital. "The Hořovice Maternity Hospital U slunečné brány with more than 1,400 births a year is now the largest maternity hospital in the Central Bohemia Region and can boldly compete with the largest and most modern Prague maternity hospitals", says the director of the Hořovice Hospital.
However, the gynaecological-obstetric and neonatological department of the Hořovice hospital will soon offer many more innovations. "For example, the entire neonatology ward is going to be rebuilt, the modernisation of equipment is continuing and a brand new gynaecology ward will be put back into operation after a complete reconstruction," says Aleš Klán, MD, head of the Gynaecology and Obstetrics Department. Patients in this ward already have much more space and their own sanitary facilities. "Together with my colleagues from the paediatric and neonatology wards, we have done a great deal of work here. But we want to continue to do so in order to offer the best possible care for women and their children," adds MUDr. Klán.
