Hospital da Mulher opens with reinforced security and vacancies for new professionals

The Women’s Hospital officially opens its doors this Wednesday (14) with the mission of receiving patients from the Pérola Byington Hospital and establishing itself as the largest health center specializing in women’s care in Latin America.

The unit with more than 50 thousand m² was built on Avenida Rio Branco, in the Cracolândia region, and the first challenge will be to guarantee the safety of employees and patients.

This year, drug users left the roads closest to the hospital, an investment of R$ 245 million. However, it was enough for the report to take the cell phone out of his pocket to receive the advice that it would not be a good place to leave the device on display.

“We wouldn’t have another area with this size close to the downtown region and to bus terminals, including to facilitate access”, says the State Secretary of Health, Jean Gorinchteyn.

At the same time, he adds, the place meets the redevelopment strategies of the central region drawn up by the state and municipal governments – in recent months, several police operations have been carried out in the region, with the dispersion of drug users.

To deal with the situation, Inova Saúde says that it will have a staff of internal and external security guards, firefighters and security guards to support patients. The company says it has nine 24-hour security posts and a monitoring system with cameras with heat sensors that help predict suspicious movements and facial recognition.

“The images are sent in real time to the Hospital’s Operations Control Center, where all processes and images are monitored and, if necessary, an immediate notice is made to the Metropolitan Civil Guard and the Military Police”, says the company. .

Inova will manage the Women’s Hospital with Seconci-SP (São Paulo’s Civil Construction Social Service). The first organization will take care of the so-called gray coat – the administrative, security and cleaning sector, for example – and the second, the white coat – the part that involves health professionals.

The PPP (public-private partnership) model, argues Gorinchteyn, allows for streamlining services, assistance and equipment maintenance. It also facilitates the hiring necessary to increase consultations, exams and procedures.

According to the Secretary of State for Health, the current 867 employees of the Pérola Byington Hospital will be maintained, but when it is fully operational, the new hospital will need 1,200 employees, including doctors, nurses and technicians. The hiring of new employees will occur gradually by Seconci, and interested parties can send their CVs to the email [email protected].

Inova also estimates almost 500 vacancies for professionals such as secretaries and telephone operators, among professionals already hired and to be selected. Hiring should close in October, and interested parties can send their CVs to the email [email protected].

“Currently, there are 128 beds, while the Women’s Hospital will have 172. We will have a much larger space, with 92 surgical beds, 10 day hospital beds, 10 ICU beds, 60 clinical beds. aimed at cancer treatment, with state-of-the-art equipment”, says the secretary.

The new unit will feature tomography with sedation, magnetic resonance imaging and will offer radiotherapy sessions, something not available at Pérola. The Women’s Hospital will also expand the service to patients who need the fertilization service, whether for egg preservation before oncological treatments, or for non-cancer patients.

When it is fully operational, which should occur in 2023, it is estimated that the hospital will perform 19,800 radiotherapy sessions, 21,000 chemotherapy sessions and 23,700 hormone therapy sessions. 12,800 hospitalizations and 107,000 outpatient visits are expected per year.

name change

Another challenge will be to reinforce the Hospital da Mulher brand. The original proposal was to keep the name Pérola Byington Hospital in the new unit, but the Cruzada Pró-Infância prohibited its use.

“I cannot transfer the name of one SO (social organization) to another SO. If it were the state government that continued there and not a PPP, we would certainly allow the name for the excellence of the work and because it would be public property. excellent work here, we just didn’t authorize it because it would go to a private process”, explains Rosa Maria Marinho Acerba, general superintendent of Cruzada Pro-Infância.

The entity was founded by Pérola Byington and Maria Antonieta de Castro and owns the hospital in Bela Vista, which is rented for R$380,000 a month to the state government. “As we will lose this rent, one of our goals is to reopen the hospital and we will be able to use the name”, says Acerba.

She comments that there are health plans interested in the building and that, if it is not possible to rent to one of them, the Cruzada itself will resume the provision of health services that it has performed in the past.

“We ran the hospital until 1989 and then we specialized in day care. We would not like to take over again because it is a lot of work and we already have 33 day care centers, but nothing prevents us from returning. We want to keep the legacy. building houses”, he says.

In the coming months, the entity will carry out works on the building, such as the construction of an emergency staircase, and its board will analyze the different options.