Quality, certification and attention in the new stage of Sanatorium Güemes

The traditional Sanatorium of Guemes, with half a century of experience, embodies the type of medical institution linked to the golden age of Argentine medicine and also finds its desire to modernize and improve. day after day.

As part of its continuous improvement plan and in order to provide safe and quality healthcare that places the patient at the center of all its actions, the Sanatorium Güemes has requested an external evaluation from the Technical Institute of Accreditation of Health Establishments (ITAES) *.

It aims to evaluate the quality of care taking into account the medico-administrative components related to the process of care and patient satisfaction, thus qualifying the institution as a whole.

The evaluation consisted of a rigorous process for verifying compliance with standards, based on protocols established by ITAES, in which evaluators badyze and verify their compliance through patient and staff interviews, carefully reviewing documentation, badysis of medical records and eye inspection, among others.

As a result of this process, the Guemes sanatorium has obtained full accreditation for three years and demonstrates its efforts to improve and provide the community with confidence in the services provided, while encouraging the health team to pursue the vision. institutional excellence

There are scientific stages of Sanatorium Güemes that deserve to be remembered, especially those related to the unforgettable Argentine doctor René Favaloro. When in 1971, Dr. René Favaloro, already recognized worldwide in the Cleveland Clinic for the development of the coronary bypbad technique, returned to the country attracted by the great project of Sanatorium Güemes (SG) with the construction of his tower. There is also the meeting again with Dr. Luis de la Fuente, then head of the hemodynamics department of the SG, and Favaloro was responsible for the department of diagnosis and treatment of thoracic and cardiovascular diseases of Sanatorium Guemes.

On the academic level, the Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery Department has achieved a privileged position in the country and in the world. For young doctors, El Güemes was the local version of the famous Mayo Clinic in the United States. A great place to work, but even more to learn and improve. A real school

On May 24, 1984, Dr. René Favaloro performed his first heart transplant. And in 1987, doctors Luis De la Fuente and Simon Stertzer placed their first coronary stents at Sanatorium Güemes in material called nitinol. Then they started developing thinner stainless steel stents and then successfully implanted them into 3 patients.

Since then, the Sanatorium continues its constant development and remodeling up to today.

* ITAES is a founding member of the ALPHA Program (Program for Leadership in Health Care Accreditation Programs) and is approved by the International Society for Quality Health Care (ISQua).