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Doha
Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) first mobile patient library was officially launched recently by Nasser al Naimi, deputy chief of Quality at HMC, Center for Patient Experience and Staff Experience (CPESE) and director of Hamad Healthcare Quality Institute (HHQI), during a ceremony at Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI).
The opening of the library follows the launch of the Patient Experience Forum in March by Minister of Public Health HE Dr Hanan Mohamed al Kuwari during the Middle East Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare.
QRI is the first HMC facility to receive a mobile patient library and any of its inpatients wishing to borrow a book can now do so through the Nesma’ak customer service team located within the hospital.
Patients wanting to access the library are brought a mobile device which has a catalog listing all the books available.
Once a patient has browsed through the selection and chosen the book he/she wishes to borrow, the Nesma’ak customer service representative then delivers the book to the patient’s bedside.
The library has been developed through collaborative partnerships with a number of organisations, including the Ministry of Culture and Sports and a number of embassies, including the Embassy of Korea, the Embassy of Japan and the Embassy of Thailand. The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara), Qatar University and the Sheikh Abdulla Bin Zaid Al Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Center have also donated books while future donations are expected from the Qatar National Library.
The CPESE team has also organised a book donation drive across HMC and staff and members of the public have been encouraged to donate books in the designated boxes placed at Nesma’ak reception counters across all HMC hospitals.
Naimi said, “Improving the patient experience is one of CPESE’s main priorities and this means taking a holistic approach to making a hospital stay as pleasant as possible. Having a library for our patients will provide them with an invaluable opportunity to relax and uplift their spirits while recovering in hospital. We already have over 300 books donated and we hope that through continued donations, this number will grow.”
He added, “This is just the beginning; our long-term plan is to increase the number of multi-language books we have in circulation and to expand the number of libraries we have across all HMC facilities so that our inpatients can relax with a book during their hospital stay.
“I am grateful to all our partners who have donated books to support our patient library and we are especially proud to have received books in over 10 different languages so those patients who may have very little knowledge of the English and Arabic languages are also able to enjoy the library.”
In the coming year, the CPESE team plans to roll-out the mobile patient library to other HMC facilities with long-term care patients, such as the Enaya Specialized Care Center and the Communicable Disease Center.
Members of the public wishing to donate books should visit any Nesma’ak reception counter at HMC hospitals. Any questions about the book donation drive can be directed to the CPESE team at [email protected]
Doha
Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) first mobile patient library was officially launched recently by Nasser al Naimi, deputy chief of Quality at HMC, Center for Patient Experience and Staff Experience (CPESE) and director of Hamad Healthcare Quality Institute (HHQI), during a ceremony at Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI).
The opening of the library follows the launch of the Patient Experience Forum in March by Minister of Public Health HE Dr Hanan Mohamed al Kuwari during the Middle East Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare.
QRI is the first HMC facility to receive a mobile patient library and any of its inpatients wishing to borrow a book can now do so through the Nesma’ak customer service team located within the hospital.
Patients wanting to access the library are brought a mobile device which has a catalog listing all the books available.
Once a patient has browsed through the selection and chosen the book he/she wishes to borrow, the Nesma’ak customer service representative then delivers the book to the patient’s bedside.
The library has been developed through collaborative partnerships with a number of organisations, including the Ministry of Culture and Sports and a number of embassies, including the Embassy of Korea, the Embassy of Japan and the Embassy of Thailand. The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara), Qatar University and the Sheikh Abdulla Bin Zaid Al Mahmoud Islamic Cultural Center have also donated books while future donations are expected from the Qatar National Library.
The CPESE team has also organised a book donation drive across HMC and staff and members of the public have been encouraged to donate books in the designated boxes placed at Nesma’ak reception counters across all HMC hospitals.
Naimi said, “Improving the patient experience is one of CPESE’s main priorities and this means taking a holistic approach to making a hospital stay as pleasant as possible. Having a library for our patients will provide them with an invaluable opportunity to relax and uplift their spirits while recovering in hospital. We already have over 300 books donated and we hope that through continued donations, this number will grow.”
He added, “This is just the beginning; our long-term plan is to increase the number of multi-language books we have in circulation and to expand the number of libraries we have across all HMC facilities so that our inpatients can relax with a book during their hospital stay.
“I am grateful to all our partners who have donated books to support our patient library and we are especially proud to have received books in over 10 different languages so those patients who may have very little knowledge of the English and Arabic languages are also able to enjoy the library.”
In the coming year, the CPESE team plans to roll-out the mobile patient library to other HMC facilities with long-term care patients, such as the Enaya Specialized Care Center and the Communicable Disease Center.
Members of the public wishing to donate books should visit any Nesma’ak reception counter at HMC hospitals. Any questions about the book donation drive can be directed to the CPESE team at [email protected]
