5 Innovative Projects Win 2020 ORPEA Excellence Awards - Seite 2

- “Clinical Ethics” category: Haus-Edelberg Kernen (Germany) Nursing Home for its intercultural workshop on death and end of life “Giving days more live-culture”
Starting from a detailed analysis of the resident’s needs and expectations, this workshop develops a resident-centred approach that is preventive and multi-disciplinary, and empowers the resident.

- “Innovation in Care” category: Château d’Herblay Hospital (CLINEA SSR France) for its PREVaction programme, a comprehensive strategy of health education and prevention.
The PREVaction programme, which is delivered in this outpatient hospital to people aged 75 and up, is meant to be utilised before patients lose autonomy so they can gain the tools to take charge of their health and preserve their remaining abilities.

- Because so many excellent projects were submitted, the jury also gave two honourable mentions in the “Innovation in Care” category:

• Home chemotherapy treatment, supported by the teams of Allerzorg Home Care in Woerden, the Netherlands. This programme aims to improve quality of life for the very elderly or people with reduced mobility by offering them home chemotherapy care so they do not need to travel to a hospital.

• “EM Table”, passive horizontal stimulation for quality of life for people with reduced mobility, a project backed by the Spanish teams of the ORPEA Mirasierra rehabilitation facility in Madrid. This device recreates the effects produced by physical activity by inducing passive movements on a horizontal plane. The nitrogen oxide that is produced improves bio-mechanical properties, muscle tone and tissue oxygenation (­PaO2, ¯PaCO2) in patients aged 26 to 65.

This year, ISEC is adding a new element: international workshops designed to speed up the implementation of these innovations across the Group while encouraging the sharing of experience and best practices. These workshops will bring together each team of winners and the ISEC members, who will model approaches and protocols for a successful implementation.

ISEC was created in 2015 to give the Group an opportunity to further study the ethical aspects of care practises, and it studies the medical ethics issues faced by the Group’s care and senior management teams.

“1000 Smiles” award

The “1000 Smiles” awards were also announced during this ceremony. These awards, which were specially created by the ORPEA Group in 2020, recognise creative initiatives implemented in its European facilities to amuse, energise and lift the spirits of residents, patients and employees throughout this trying year.