Senior care specialist company Caring (CEO Taesung Kim) announced that it has signed a business agreement with Yonsei Rheumatology and Internal Medicine Clinic (Director Seunghwan Shin) to provide visiting medical services and will begin building an integrated healthcare model that links care and medical services.
Through this agreement, Caring aims to create an environment where elderly people with limited mobility can receive necessary medical services at home without visiting a hospital, and to organically connect care and medical services to eliminate blind spots in medical services.
Caring and Yonsei Rheumatology and Internal Medicine Clinic will participate in the primary care home visit treatment fee pilot project hosted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, provide medical services by visiting the residences of elderly people with mobility difficulties, and plan to strengthen the care system so that medical staff and nursing assistants can work closely together so that each individual can receive appropriate care according to their health condition.
In particular, the government provides free national vaccinations, including flu shots, to seniors over 65 years of age, but many seniors who have difficulty visiting hospitals are unable to receive these benefits. Accordingly, Caring is supporting home vaccinations for the first time through its home visit medical service.
Caring plans to link specialized medical services in some areas, including Gangbuk-gu, Seoul, in cooperation with Yonsei Rheumatology and Internal Medicine Clinic for seniors who use home care services and need medical services. In the future, it plans to expand its service area by forming partnerships with various medical institutions nationwide.
Shin Seung-hwan, the director of Yonsei Rheumatology and Internal Medicine Clinic, said, “Elderly patients who have difficulty visiting the hospital can easily miss the timing of treatment, which can lead to deterioration of their health.” He added, “If medical staff can provide customized treatment directly at the patient’s residence through home visits, it will be able to contribute to eliminating blind spots in medical care.”
Kim Tae-seong, CEO of Caring, said, “Caring will focus on building an integrated healthcare ecosystem where medical care and nursing are organically linked beyond care services,” adding, “We will continue to improve the quality of care through integrated care centered on the elderly, while continuing to innovate services to support a healthy old age.”
Meanwhile, Caring's establishment of this integrated medical-care healthcare model is also in line with the 'integrated support for medical, nursing, and care' policy that the Ministry of Health and Welfare is currently promoting. At the 'integrated support for medical, nursing, and care policy discussion' hosted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the National Health Insurance Corporation on the 13th, the integrated linkage of medical, nursing, and care services was also presented as a key policy direction.
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