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Monday – Friday | 08:00 – 19:00
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Saturday and Sunday – closed
Geriatric Outpatient Clinics (4 Clinics)
The Geriatric specialty clinics offer medical care to visiting aging adults. Specialists in Geriatrics provide comprehensive outpatient assessment and care that deal with any medical illnesses, psycho-social needs, endocrine and dietary needs, and rehabilitation. In addition, cognitive and mood assessment, preventive medicine, exercise counseling, assessment for dementia (memory loss) and depression are provided, and pain management is offered.
Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit G.E.M. (29 beds)
Geriatric Evaluation and Management is offered through our specialized 29-bed unit providing acute medical care to older patients in need of hospitalization due to acute illnesses not requiring surgical or intensive care unit services. Common diseases that are dealt with in the G.E.M include heart failure, stroke, pneumonia, acute kidney injury, uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes mellitus, urinary tract infections, diarrhea, dehydration, weight loss, and pressure ulcers. Patients are evaluated by a multidisciplinary team including a geriatrician, residents training in geriatrics, geriatric nurse specialist, physical therapist, … psychologist, social worker, and dietician. This comprehensive evaluation aims to identify all the medical problems from which elders suffer and provides a plan of care to resolve them. These patients are then offered follow up care in the Geriatric Outpatient Clinics. Additionally, the Unit offers educational classes to patients and their families on multiple topics of relevance.
Coma and Palliative Care Unit (8 beds)
Being run as a national model in a pilot phase, in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), the World Health Organization (WHO) and SANAD, the Coma and Palliative Care Unit provides medical, nursing, social and psychological care for patients who suffer from incurable or chronic illnesses that are no longer responding to curative medical treatment. A specialized interdisciplinary team is responsible for the patient’s medical and nursing care. The Palliative Care Unit offers:
- Management of difficult symptoms: pain, breathing difficulties, nausea, constipation, loss of appetite, fear, anxiety, confusion, depression and more.
- Addressing the patient’s changing needs and goals: The Palliative Care Team elicits and incorporates patient/family’s preferences into medical decision making and adjusts care plans accordingly.
- Coordination of care throughout the illness: The Palliative Care Team explores the patient’s values and beliefs and provides guidance regarding available treatment options.
- Education: Provide the patient and his/her family with specific information about his/her current health status, clinical condition, diagnosis, prognosis, and disease trajectory.
- Emotional support: Palliative Care provides patients and their families with emotional and psychological support, thus allowing the patient and his family to understand his/her health condition and how to cope with it.
Home Palliative Care
Elderly Care Center (ECC) (75 beds)
- Optimizing the elderly’s health.
- Providing the best comprehensive services for all medical problems.
- the function of elders to maximize their independence through individual and group rehabilitation.
Geriatric Outpatient Clines (4 Clinics)
The Geriatric specialty clinics offer medical care to visiting aging adults. Specialists in Geriatrics provide comprehensive outpatient assessment and care that deal with any medical illnesses, psycho-social needs, endocrine and dietary needs, and rehabilitation. In addition, cognitive and mood assessment, preventive medicine, exercise counseling, assessment for dementia (memory loss) and depression are provided, and pain management is offered.
Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit
This unit provides acute medical care to older patients in need for hospitalization due to any acute illnesses not requiring surgical or intensive care unit services. These patients are then offered follow up care in the Geriatric clinics. Additionally, the unit offers educational classes to patients and their families on multiple topics of relevance.
Palliative Care and Pain Management
Being run as a national model in pilot phase, in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization and Balsam, the Palliative Care and Pain Management unit provides medical, nursing, social and psychological care for patients who suffer from incurable or chronic 111, illnesses that are no longer responding to curative medical treatment. The specialized care team will focus on alleviating pain in addition to providing psychological and spiritual counseling and support to the patients and their families, because every patient has the right to a life without pain and to the best quality of life possible against all adversity.
Long Term Care Unit
Widely known as the Elderly Care Center, the Long Term Care Unit at the Ain Wazein Geriatric Medical Center is composed of 3 single-gender wards that aim at preserving and improving the physical and mental health and psycho-social wellbeing of older adults in residence at the center on a full-board basis. This is achieved through day-to-day medical and nursing care by an interdisciplinary team of geriatric specialists, rehabilitation by physical therapists and ergotherapists, and social assistance and recreational services and activities assisted by a group of dedicated volunteers.
Geropsychiatry
In preparation to introduce a specialized unit for psychogeriatric services, four rooms have been designed and equipped according to national and international standards, in summer of 2016, to accommodate residents with geropsychiatry care needs, until the dedicated unit is launched.