Guest House/Palliative Care: AFNCI

Guest House/Palliative Care: AFNCI is undertaking the project to build a guesthouse, hospice care and early detection and prevention center. The guesthouse will accommodate out of town patients for CCHE and NCI patients and families.

In its tireless pursuit of improving the lives of Egyptian cancer patients, the AFNCI has decided to undertake another major project to support the CCHE 57357 and the National Cancer Institute. This project is the funding, design, development and construction of a 3 tower Hostel and Palliative Care facility for adult and pediatric cancer patients and their families who are patients of the two institutions.

Presently both centers are receiving thousands of patients per year. Many of them are from rural areas (more than 100 km) and come long distances for treatment at these two major centers for cancer care and have no place to stay which contributes to patients not being compliant with their treatment. The CCHE 57357 is aiming to increase its total patient capacity by having a number of hostel beds used as an extended care unit where patients will receive light chemotherapy and supportive management under medical supervision thereby allowing the hospital to accept more patients and creating a “Hospital without Walls”.

The aim is to optimize space utilization through proper integration of services for the three buildlings, and to create “green” buildings that will achieve international “LEED” accreditation (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), that will meet the current industry standards for building materials, energy, water and waste management, and air handling.

Guest House/Hospice Scope of Service:

The AFNCI Guest House will serve as a guest house for patients and their caregiver who are a minimum of 100 km from Cairo or from outside Egypt undergoing diagnosis, day treatment, follow-up, and overnight hydration. It will also act as an extended care unit to provide non complicated treatment in order to increase the patient capacity of the CCHE. The guest house will offer a home away from home and be designed for open communication and support with other families. The hospice home will offer support for children who are in the final phases of their illness and their families by providing unique, individualized care through either home care, hospice or hospital care depending on the needs of the patient and family. The facility will be staffed by skilled physicians, nurses and pharmacists to meet the needs of the patients which will include a wide range of services from simple hydration, IV medications, pain management, minor procedures for hospice patients, bereavement counselling. There will also be lodging for students who will be attending the 57357 Health Sciences Academy.

A feasibility study is being carried out now by LOGIC Consulting who have generously donated their services for this important study which will determine:

The number of patients who live 100 km from Cairo Determine the duration of stay needed by the patients in the guest house. Determine the needs of in-patient’s families during their stay, in addition to the needs of outpatients themselves. Provide an estimate on the expenses incurred from the families’ side against the care for their child; direct expenses as well as lost income. Determine the numbers of students who might use the guest house. Evaluate the type of services families require at the guest house and palliative care such as kitchen, laundry, private rooms.

http://www.57357.com/2011/current-projects/