The community receives the award for best primary care Spain for the second consecutive year.

-Oleanders, pioneer in digital processing and partner health protocols, awarded as the best Centre of Spain health

-the Best In Class Awards have distinguished the quality care of the health centres in the region

Madrid, 2011-July the Minister of health of the community of Madrid, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, visited the Adelfas Health Centerhas been winning as best health centre of Spain in the V Edition of Health Awards Best In Class. These prestigious awards, which gives the weekly medical Gazette in collaboration with the Chair of innovation and health management of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, annually recognize the excellence of the Spanish centres in the patient care.

The Health Minister said this award demonstrates that Madrid health is becoming more valued and what is undoubtedly one of the best in Spain. want to promote the work of the centres of primary health care, improving their response capacity and providing them with greater means of diagnosis and introducing the electronic prescription ”He said.

In this sense, Fernández-Lasquetty explained that coordination between the levels of care will be improved and that the bureaucracy will be reduced to make administrative procedures simpler, both for patients and professionals.

The award is the result of the implementation of various projects to improve the quality in their benefits to the population. The health center, which serves 23.504 citizens of the District of Retiro, pioneered project specialist consultant in their area of reference to start a line of collaboration with internal medicine from the Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón in 2006.

In addition, professionals who work daily in Oleander are work carried out administrative unit designed to dispense with the role in almost 100% of procedures carried out by the management of documents in electronic format. Also applies the technique of scan reports and results of the tests to join the medical history, such as electrocardiograms and radiological tests.

Since last June, the health center has subpoena by voice recognition or via the web. Both quotation systems already have a significant positive impact in the management of appointments, especially in the agendas of doctors of family and pediatricians where almost 40% of the daily events are collected by these two alternative systems.

Follow-up to the major polimedicado

Health Center last year reached a coverage of 87 per cent of the elderly population polimedicada, one of the highest in Madrid, which also performs a task of monitoring and information. is a Center pioneered the establishment of protocols with the two residences sanitary partner of elders of the area with a total of 578 patients.

The Center has a staff of 32 professionals, 12 doctors of family, 3 pediatricians, 9 nurses, Assistant nurses, a celador and administrative assistants 6. It is of a local 844 square meters with 14 consultations of Pediatrics and family medicine, care to the patient, administrative support, extractions room, emergency room, room of cures, coordination office, meeting room, the staff lounge for adults and children public toilets and two warehouses.

Oleander offers citizens other welfare services in its functional units of support, oral health and physiotherapy in the Centre of Ibiza’s health, the Peña Prieta Health Center midwives and social workers in the health of Pacific Center.

The community of Madrid has carried out the reform and the equipment of this place, who has come to replace the old prefabricated, amounting to more than 360,000 euros. The objective of this new location is to respond to the demands of professionals and patients to, on the one hand, to facilitate the work of physicians, nurse and other professionals who work in it and improve the accessibility and comfort of patients.

Finally, the Health Minister said that the activity of this health centre is a good example of the primary care public Madrid, that gets 53 million consultations each year and does so with a high level of quality. According to the satisfaction survey, more than 91% of patients value very positively the effectiveness of the family doctor to solve their problems of health.