Hemas Hospital Thalawathugoda introduces home-care service

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‘Community Health Watch’, hospital-in-the-home service offers OPD, Lab testing, Physiotherapy and Emergency care Recognising the hassle that sometimes patients have to bear in availing medical attention or OPD treatment, Hemas Hospital Thalawathugoda has introduced a unique new service which will provide hospital facilities in the comfort of one’s home. The new service called Community Health Watch, aims to lower the time people spend in hospital while remaining under the care of the hospital’s consultant, with treatment delivered by a clinical team including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, laboratory assistants and healthcare support workers. The service was flagged off by Hemas Hospitals Managing Director Dr. Lakith Peiris. The innovative home-care service with its clinical team will provide quality healthcare, maintaining the standards and benchmarks that Hemas Hospital brand is known for. The mobile homecare facility is available 24 hours, every day of the week. Being just a phone call away on a hotline number of 0115111888, the service offers OPD, laboratory testing for blood and urine samples, physiotherapy plus emergency care thus providing a comprehensive service.

Dr. Peiris was upbeat about the new amenity. “We are excited about this new service as it falls in line with the hospital’s mantra of quality healthcare and patient’s convenience and we always aim to better respond to the needs of a population.” “To be able to access all these services in one’s own homes is a boon which will avoid unnecessary travel time to the hospital as well as cumbersome routines for consultations. We hope to deliver the same standards of excellent clinical outcomes for our patients in the comfort of their homes,” Dr. Peiris added. He went on to note that patient satisfaction is a key objective. “Hemas Hospitals is conscious of the need to ensure that any service introduced in addition to being innovative is of the highest possible standard,” he explained. The hospital believes that the new facility is an answer to an unaddressed gap that recognises the hassles patients might have to bear for travelling to a hospital for treatment. Specialised nurses, medical expertise and sensitive approach within the comfortable confines of the home, will be the rendering. The professional home-care service will have an added convenience in that patients will not have to wait for family to accompany them to the hospital. Hemas Hospitals is a subsidiary of Hemas Holdings, one of Sri Lanka’s leading conglomerates with a focus on four key sectors including FMCG, healthcare, transportation and leisure.