Department of Palliative care - hospic type

Some departments of the hospital have been recently renovated and some are still undergoing restructuring, aimed at more efficient use of the bed fund and adaptation to current needs in the area of health - social care. The city of Prague is still lacking capacities of palliative care beds.

Therefore, the founder - the Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo - in collaboration with the hospital - decided to build a comprehensive palliative care center which would provide both in-patient and out-patient palliative care together with capacities for training for professionals and laymen as well as the patients´ close ones. The newly established department of palliative care will be located in the reconstructed space of pavilion B. The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo is the investor. 

The bed capacity will be 19 beds which will be used for a maximum of 13 patients, 6 for the accompanying accommodation (all single and double rooms with facilities), examination room for palliative medicine, operating rooms, lounge, chapel and outdoor terrace with a view of historical Prague. Of course, there is a wheelchair access and a garden at disposal. The budget is set at CZK 50 million.

The department will host patients with untreteable disease symptoms and complicated treatment. Palliative care focuses on treatment of problems and provision of psychosocial and spiritual support for the patients and their relatives in order to maintain their quality of life at the highest achievable level.

After completion of the construction phase, the facility will be transferred to hospital facilities department. All  minimal necessary equipment is provided for standards, the maximum rate will be used on the existing hospital furniture. Cost of new equipment is generally estimated at CZK 4 million.

Overview of the basic equipment required for the Palliative Department:

electrically adjustable beds, passive and active anti-decubitus mattress
beds - beds for accompanying persons, furniture in rooms
9 reclining chairs; 5 closet chair (mobile, Nontravelling) - 5
rehabilitation aid tools, wheelchairs, mechanical, suction machine
nursing facilities and examining rooms, offices, common room facilities
linear dispenser of drugs, pulse oximetry
tea kitchen facilities (kitchen, microwave oven, refrigerator)                                                                                                                                  Chapel interior, terrace and other amenities. 

Our intention to seek support and the possibility of cooperation with state institutions, the City of Prague, with neighborhoods, foundations, companies and private individuals. Upon request to issue a financial gift certificate or a deed of gift, which will serve as evidence for a reduction in the tax base for business or payroll taxes on the annual account of income from employment under the provisions of § 15 and § 20 of Act No. 586/92 Coll. Income Tax as amended.

More information can be obtained at:

Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo                                                                            Šporkova 12, 118 00 Prague 1 - Malá Strana, www.boromejky.cz, vedeni(at)boromejky.cz

Contribution accounts:

In CZK: 1028743011/0100 account at Commercial Bank in Prague 1, variable symbol 22222
The Euro: IBAN: CZ 0601000000195440630287, SWIFT CODE: KOMBCZPP, BLZ: 0100

For equipment and operations can contribute:

27-3147280207/0100 KB Praha 1

donor via SMS:
Single DMS: Send an SMS donation: DMS BOROMEJKY on telephone number 87777 DMS price is CZK 30, Sisters of Mercy Hospital in Prague sv.Karla Borromeo receive 27 CZK.
DMS Annual Support: We can now contribute regularly every month for one year. Simply send an SMS to DMS YEAR BOROMEJKY number 87 777 and each month you will automatically be deducted the amount of CZK 30.
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