Women’s Hospital has separate entrance and flow to accommodate victims of violence

The Hospital da Mulher inaugurated this Wednesday (14) in downtown São Paulo will offer separate entrances and flows according to the patient’s profile. Victims of sexual violence will not need to go through the hall and will go straight to service through an exclusive access.

The move was one of the measures taken in the project for the 50,000 m² unit that will concentrate and expand the services currently provided at the Pérola Byington Hospital, in Bela Vista. The site, rented by the state government for R$380,000 per month, should be returned to the owners in October.

“We have three very different feelings inside the hospital. We have the feeling of a person with cancer undergoing treatment; of a woman who wants to have a child and comes for assistance in the area of ​​human reproduction; and the feeling of a person who has suffered sexual violence, and we thought of a project so that these feelings would not cross”, says Susana Cabarcos Pawletta, president of Inova Saúde and the only woman at the table of authorities at the opening ceremony.

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. When fully operational, in 2023, the hospital should account for 12,800 hospitalizations and 107,000 outpatient visits per year, all through the SUS (Unified Health System).

“There is nothing more modern in hospital architecture than an ideal physical-functional planning, that is, segregated flows. To better welcome the patient, I have to prevent her from seeing sad scenes because she herself may already be experiencing a drama. she comes for an exam, I don’t want her to see someone who is going to the ICU”, said architect Paula Fiorentini, from the office responsible for the project.

“Designing an emergency room for sexual violence, an outpatient clinic focused on sexual violence is very different from the rice and beans of hospital architecture. I talked to many patients, nursing teams and doctors to understand the dynamics. It was a lesson in life for me,” he said.

The ICU nursing station is centralized, with a view of all beds, to ensure agility in responding to any intercurrence. The same happens on the chemotherapy floor: employees of the nursing station are able to observe all the patients and companions in the individual boxes for the application of chemotherapy.

“I thought a lot about the patients when we were building the hospital”, says the architect, who makes a point of working in her office with a 100% female team. “The health infrastructure market is still very much driven by old-school machismo”.