focused care and service through: • Developing long term strategic plan that will balance the needs of the Government of Botswana and Bokamoso Hospitals Mission. • Focusing on patient satisfaction by meeting their interests, needs and expectations. • Establishing core values which guide employees’ behaviour. Bokamoso Private Hospital will support personnel relations that foster growth, encourage innovation and support teamwork. • Providing services that are appropriate to the scope and level required by the patient population to be served. • Ongoing evaluation of services provided through performance improvement activities. • Integrating of services through a variety of mechanisms, i.e. continuous quality improvement teams,
informational meetings, staff meetings, employee consultative forums and employee education. • Recognizing the need to be a responsible member of the community through contributing toward the quality of life and involvement in the community services. Services Bokamoso Private Hospital provides comprehensive emergency care including trauma cases, women’s and children’s health services, orthopaedics, cardiac, neurosciences, and oncology specialties. Patient care Units: • Women and Children’s Health • Hospital Services • Surgical Services • Medical Services Supported by highly equipped Intensive Care/Critical Care Units, ORI Suit/Post Anesthesia Care Unit, Labor and delivery in LDRP rooms and Newborn Nursery e.t.c.
Presently the following services are available: MEDICINE • Neurology • Cardiology • Endocrinology • Gastroenterology • Gynecology • Pediatrics • Infectious diseases • Nephrology • Ophthalmology and Ophthalmologic Surgery • Pathology • Obstetrics • Sports & Exercise Medicine • Internal Medicine SURGERY • Anesthesiology and Nurse anesthetist • General Surgery • Orthopedic Surgery • Colorectal Surgery • Plastic Surgery • Urology • Emergency Medicine • Laboratory • Radiology • Pharmaceutical Services. Staffing Bokamoso Private Hospital recruited qualified doctors (among them repatriated Batswana doctors trained in the United States of America, Europe), nurses and support staff. Currently the hospital has more than 80 doctors who were recruited from 22 countries. Facilities The hospital has a capacity of 200 beds with planned expansion to 300 beds, a rehabilitation facility with 30
beds and an in-town outpatient centre to be opened 1st September 2010. The Hospital has a state-of-the-art Health Information System that will enable the hospital to operate in a paperless environment, providing electronic medical records and a telemedicine capability with satellite connectivity to the United States and other countries. The facility has been designed to meet international accreditation standards. Currently the hospital has: • 1 Cardiac Catheterization Suite • 1 Endoscopy Suite • Accident and emergency facility fully equipped – helipad for country wide service • Eight (8) operating threatres • Extensive state of the art imaging and laboratory diagnostics capability, including Clinical Chemistry, Endocrinology, Immunology, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Haematology, Coagulation, Histology, Cytology, Microbiology and HIV Therapeutic Monitoring.
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