Congratulations, Instituto Medico San Nicolas, IMSAN.

I get mail: Surprised the prestigious JCI accreditation of the IMSAN has gone unnoticed.

This is a great accomplishment for Aruba and opens great possibilities for SN in medical tourism.

Main international insurance companies cover surgeries and medical treatments in JCI approved centers.

Years of hard work towards this accreditation. We need to thank Dr. Rajnherc and his team. Will allow Imsan to grow and improve the quality of care in Aruba.

A few years back there were talks about HOH taking over IMSAN. They have proven them wrong. Maybe the other way around. Pa bien IMSAN!!

End of mail.

True, the director of Imsan and his team did an outstanding job, in getting themselves accredited. According to Dr. Rajnherc, the JCI certificate, from the Joint Commission of International Accreditation attests that the hospital delivers the highest level of care standards, in 10 hospital functions and on 67 topics.

JCI auditors came down to Aruba to observe the inner workings of Imsan between the 19th and 23rd of June. They poked, grilled, riffled, and studied, every file, and every procedure, for 8 hours, during five days, reviewing everything from safety measures, to building specs, and fire preparedness, investigating all eventualities, and weighing every policy, reviewing 1,200 points, that’s TWELVE HUNDRED points. Imsan aced the audit at 98% —  the 2% remaining, secondary improvements have been fixed, meanwhile.

At the end of ten days, the Gold Seal certificate was said to appear by mail.

It is now on its way, with UPS, and must get here before Friday, when it will be unveiled at a reception from 1pm to 4pm, with the Minister of Health in attendance.

The JCI certification means that Imsan operates on the highest level according to highest international standards, with only 3 other accredited Caribbean hospitals, two in Cayman, one in Barbados.

Dr. Rajnherc reports that the permission to build, expand and renovate, took from 2012 till 2017, to obtain.

Building started in July 2018, and concluded in April 2020.

Construction took 22 months; it was projected between 20 to 24.

Aruba was VERY lucky, in that respect.

The facility delivered its first radiation treatment on April 1st, 2020.

Note that date. Aruba diagnosed its two first Corona patients March 13th, 2020, and closed to border, so that no more patients could go to Colombia for treatment.

They were treated here, after April 1st, and a great number of lives was saved.

Originally, Dr. Rajnherc explains, Imsan was conceived as an ambulatory, day time, facility. But then a change of direction took place, with the addition of a 22-bed hospital wing, which was accredited as a certified quality hospital on October 7th, of 2021.

Because of that addition, the JCI accreditation criteria had to be upgraded and increased. No more ambulatory standards, Imsan was now in the big league.

With the supportive, and inspiring big league partner all along, Baptist Health in Florida.

The team at Imsan achieved its goal, between April 1st, 2020 and June 2023, because they all go the extra mile, says Dr. Rajnherc, and they are all passionate about health care.

From a previous column:

The IMSAN center is busy and thriving. It operates 18 dialysis stations, three shifts a day, six days a week, and serve over 80 patients.

In the eye department they are working hard to see patients from Aruba, as well as Bonaire, Curacao, Saba and Statia. Our glaring sun, diabetes, aging and other illnesses affect our vision, and fast repairs are necessary before the retia withers and dies. They now have five Ophthalmologists, four optometrists, in addition to a contact lens specialist. An eye-care dependence operates in Dakota.

(People behave badly, eating and drinking too much, which reflects on the level of business at IMSAN)

In the Radiation Oncology Center patients receive excellent care in collaboration with the experts at Baptist-Health in Florida, and the Miami Cancer Institute. They consult on every case, and reach consensus on the preferred treatment protocol. Local and US teams review and analyze findings and provide the best solutions possible, together.

IMSAN is a 22 bed accredited hospital, collaborating with the yet-to-be-accredited HOH.

The Radiology department provides top notch Imaging Diagnostic Services: Ultrasound, Computer Tomography (CT) Scans and X-ray examinations, handled by a certified team of Radiologic-Technologists, Sonographers and Radiologists. A PET/CT scanner, is on the wish list.

The Diabetic Center contributes greatly, maintaining chronic diabetes patients under control, to reduce and even avoid complications, with good regular care. The diabetes center recruited a multidisciplinary team to treat patients with diabetes. A branch is located on Rumbastraat, right next to AZV.

 

IMSAN is also a learning center teaching first aid, CPR, AED, it receives the public in the Emergency Department, 24 hours, 7 days a week, runs a lab, a pharmacy, an operation theater, and the ambulance care unit, from 3 different locations, Wayaca Fall, IMSAN SN, and Scholtlandstraat.

 

 

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July 18, 2023
Rona Coster