Actual situation
HPD is a Reginal Hospital in a network of  19 Primary Healthcare Units and 3 Regional Hospitals. These 3 units are located in the former capitals of district and are reference sites for 2nd level Healthcare in their area of interest.
HPD has an direct influence area of 150.000 inhabitants corresponding to 7 Primary Healthcare Units of the islands S. Miguel and Sta. Maria. It comprises 25 medical specialties and 7 more as it functions as the only Regional site for the other 100.000 inhabitants of the Azores Archipelago.
The building is situated in the surrounded area of Ponta Delgada, a town with 40.000 inhabitants, in a global area of 110 thousand square meter and an implantation area of 20 thousand square meter. The whole building has an area of 52 thousand square meter and has the advantage of being implanted in a hill side with a nice view over town. The Inpatient Department has 21 wards with 26 bed each situated in the south part of the building in a 5 floor shape distribution.
The Outpatient Dept. and Special Diagnosis, Administration areas (including Emergency, Operating Theaters, Laboratories, External Consultation, Administration and Educational Services) are situated in the east and central part of the building in a two floor shape environment.
General supplies and technical support are located on west part on a single floor building.
The Hospital has 498 beds for inpatients. The staff is made up of more then 1.000 people, including 170 physicians, 120 of these being specialized, 270 nurses and male nurses and 50 diagnosis technicians.
In 1998 the Hospital received 12.000 inpatients who spent a total of 75.000 days in there, with an average delay of 6,45 days. In the same period 60.000 consultations took place.
The emergency department received 45.000 patients in an average of 125 patients per day. The most common problems that make people go  to the emergency are internal diseases, car and work accidents.
In the new building we are able to perform 7.500 surgeries yearly in 6 main operating suites and 3 small surgery rooms foroutpatient surgery. An internal TV circuit is available at main rooms to follow the interventions in meeting rooms.
A 10 bed Intensive Care Unit provides life support for patients in critical care situation.
A Cardiac Care Unit made up of  5 beds with a backup of 10 other beds with telemetry takes care of coronary diseases.
A Neonatal ICU with 15 incubators and a total of 20 places supplies care to new born babies.

Towards Patient Record File
The Hospital is holding a project whose aim is the integration of all patient data in a database platform in order to get a Patient Record File who traces the patient’s route during it’s stay in the Institution. As long as we can figure it now, the patient data should be stored each time he reaches a front desk, registering the patient ID, the place and the services requested. In the future, the data collected at these places would be integrated or at least pointed out to the right file server.
Up to now the Hospital Information System (HIS) holds the demographic patient data, dates and services requested and performed. In the near future this application should work online with the administrative software (account and management) in order to allow administration staff with updated information.
The “Critical Care Environment System”, whose priming phase will take place soon, is a very important tool for physicians at Intensive Care Units, Operating Rooms and other places where the amount of data to deal with is so huge and complex that the automatic organization and friendly display of it will allow decision makers to take actions earlier than they were used to.
The “Picture Archive and Communication Service”, running for 5 months now, and the “Laboratory Information System”, on proposals evaluation, allowing the dir
ect query to their databases, will allow the better performance of physicians at their workplace merely by the easiness of getting so important patient data.

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Contact Person
Name:	Rosa M. Cruz
Main job at Hospital:	Head of Medical Imaging Department
Phone:	+ 351 - 296.203.471
Fax:	+ 351 - 296.203.090
email:	hospdelgada@mail.telepac.pt

 

Physicians
Name:	Isabel Basto Helena Brum
Main job at Hospital:	Doctors of Medical Imaging Department
Phone:	+ 351 - 296.203.474
Fax:	+ 351 - 296.203.090
email:	hospdelgada@mail.telepac.pt

 

Technical Support
Name:	Jose M. Ponte
Main job at Hospital:	Facilities & Medical Devices Mannagement
Phone:	+ 351 - 296.203.730
Fax:	+ 351 - 296.203.085
email:	sie.hospdelgada@mail.telepac.pt