SOLO —  Sebanyak 145.930 anak usia 9 bulan hingga 15 tahun di Solo akan mendapatkan imunisasi campak dan Measles Rubella (MR) secara gratis.

Kepala Bidang Pengendalian Penyakit Dinas Kesehatan Kota Solo, Efi Pratiwi mengatakan pihaknya akan mendatangi tiap rumah untuk memberikan vaksin  tersebut. 

“Kami akan canangkan imunisasi campak dan rubella ini agar masyarakat terutama orang tua yang mempunyai anak usia tersebut mengikutinya, untuk kesehatan anaknya,” kata Efi di Balai Kota Solo pada Senin (31/7). 

Efi menjelaskan masyarakat juga bisa mengantar anaknya ke Rumah Sakit, Puskesmas maupun Posyandu untuk mendapatkan layanan tersebut. Selain itu pemberian imunisasi campak dan MR gratis juga akan dilakukan pada tiap sekolah pada Agustus hingga September mendatang. 

Menurutnya, imunisasi campak dan MR wajib diikuti oleh seluruh anak di Solo baik yang pernah mendapatkan vaksin serupa maupun yang belum. Dia mengatakan imunisasi tersebut sangat penting untuk mencegah tertularnya virus campak dan rubella yang bisa membuat anak menderita penyakit seperti demam, kulit memerah, radang paru-paru hingga radang otak. Sebab itu dia pun mengajak orang tua untuk bisa bekerjasama dalam mensukseskan program tersebut. 

“Untuk kasusnya di Solo kami belum tahu, tetapi kami menargetkan 95 persen wajib mengikuti imunisasi ini,” katanya.

Sumber: republika.co.id

Imagine walking into a preschool where children are learning about healthy food followed by brushing their teeth; where children with special health care needs are safely included in activities; where learning the foundations for reading is balanced by vigorous play and learning to take turns and share.

Pediatricians strive to deliver the highest quality medical care to patients but may not think about the quality of the environment where young children spend numerous waking hours — their child care setting or preschool. Most children are in out-of-home care. The staff, activities and environment of that setting influence the crucial early period of their brain development.

A new AAP policy statement from the Council on Early Childhood recommends how pediatricians and policymakers can help ensure that children receive care in high-quality settings. Quality Early Education and Child Care From Birth to Kindergarten is available at https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2017-1488 and will be published in the August issue of Pediatrics.

Research shows that investing in quality preschool education pays off in preparing children for kindergarten by building healthy living habits, strong executive functioning and emotional intelligence. Those positive qualities are increasingly being quantified. The science of quality improvement (QI) in early childhood education is growing just like the science of QI in health care.

Evidence-informed child care practice standards, quality rating systems and continuing education for staff are developing. Quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) are a method of QI being implemented by more than 75% of states and frequently are known as “star systems.” QRIS systems benefit when they include health components as well as educational components.

Addressing barriers

While it is known that high-quality child care is good for kids’ brains, quality sometimes suffers due to inadequate funding, variable regulations and enforcement, and difficulties related to staff retention and education.

Child care staff have among the lowest salaries, and child care centers have difficulty paying more due to slim margins. High staff turnover disrupts the emotional bonds children create with their caregivers and makes it difficult to build a knowledgeable workforce.

Regulation and inspection are one way to ensure healthier environments for young children such as ensuring babies are put to sleep on their backs and toddlers are not being served large quantities of sugar-sweetened beverages. However, there are no national regulations for child care settings, and state regulations and enforcement vary widely.

So, what can pediatricians do?

Recommendations

• Ask families about their child care arrangements and discuss how to judge quality. Resources can be found at www.childcareaware.org.
• Be a medical home that helps children have care plans that meet any special health care needs.
• Help navigate any behavioral issues that arise to avoid preschool expulsion.
• Advocate for safe child care guidelines such as safe sleep, immunizations and safe medication administration.
• Consider becoming a child care health consultant and train staff on health issues at a local child care center. Curricula developed by the Academy are available atwww.aap.org/healthychildcare.
• Help close the gaps between state regulations and best practice.
• Advocate for expanded access to high-quality early childhood education.
• Educate policymakers about the science supporting the long-term benefits of high-quality early childhood education.
• Become an early childhood champion (ECC). The Council on Early Childhood and state chapters support  ECCs in their advocacy work. Find out more at www.aap.org/coec, with related resources at  http://bit.ly/2tigPge.

Dr. Donoghue, the lead author of the policy, is an immediate past member and former co-chair of the AAP Council on Early Childhood Executive Committee.

Copyright © 2017 American Academy of Pediatrics

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A planned behavioral health crisis center in east Winston-Salem will now include a physical health component through a joint venture by Novant Health Inc. and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

The health-care systems have agreed to operate an 8,339-square-foot primary care center providing physical and other direct treatment care within the 43,000-square-foot building at 650 Highland Ave.

The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners approved on Thursday an amendment to the lease that Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions has on the building and a 4.1-acre site. The amendment calls for the physical care clinic to operate for at least seven years.

In June 2015, the county commissioners approved a 40-year lease with CenterPoint Human Services to establish a behavioral health crisis center serving Forsyth, Davie, Rockingham and Stokes counties. Cardinal took over the lease when it acquired CenterPoint in July 2016.

It was announced June 25 that the Highland center is shifting from being a place with inpatient beds and round-the-clock care to one that would keep people less than a day and serve them primarily with chairs instead of beds.

“The original lease executed by CenterPoint did not include any provision for the primary care clinic,” Cardinal spokeswoman Ashley Conger said. “The resolution amends the use of the property to appropriately reflect the full intended use.”

The center is expected to include a community wellness center and administrative offices.

“We are engaging in collaborative efforts to better serve our community, including ideas for primary care and support of behavioral health issues that impact the residents of Forsyth County,” Dr. Stephen Motew, the president of the Novant’s greater Winston-Salem market, and Terry Williams, the chief strategy officer for Wake Forest Baptist, said in a joint statement.

An opening date has not been set. Forsyth County is holding its share of the center’s funding in reserve.

Billy West, the director of DayMark Recovery Services, which provides a variety of mental health and substance abuse services, said it makes sense to offer physical health care to behavioral health patients since physical issues, such as alcoholism, diabetes, high blood pressure, exhaustion and opioid addiction, can contribute to and even spark a behavioral health crisis.

“This center presents a fantastic opportunity to make our behavioral health system better fit the whole body care approach and, hopefully, help to keep more individuals from needing to go to the emergency department unnecessarily,” West said.

“We can help provide a better continuum of care together, such as helping individuals get to their doctor’s appointment and take their medicine as prescribed,” he said. “By being in the same building, someone can be helped for both needs rather than having to go across town or out of town.”

The primary goal of the planned behavioral health crisis center is to help ease overcrowding in hospital emergency rooms by diverting individuals experiencing a mental health and/or substance abuse crisis to the Highland center.

The center would allow law-enforcement authorities to safely hand off individuals in crisis rather than be required — as by law — to stay with them until they receive an initial examination.

The plan is to rotate a local police officer in shifts.

The center initially was scheduled to open in February as a 24-hour facility offering 16 beds for inpatient and residential psychiatric care.

The new plan is for a 23-hour urgent-care center offering 12 chairs, with patients typically being treated over an eight-hour period.

Individuals needing more than 24 hours of treatment likely would be transferred to Cardinal-affiliated facilities in Concord, Lexington and Statesville.

Cardinal said the “new configuration of services meets the original goals of members, hospitals, law enforcement, first responders and stakeholders for crisis and integrated care while providing a coordinated full continuum of care, including 24/7 access to crisis services.”

Conger said the center is being converted to a 23-hour care center “to ensure that the individual is quickly referred to the most clinically appropriate and timely services and supports.”

West said the decision to convert to a 23-hour urgent-care center for behavioral health “is fiscally sound and will treat a ton of people more than” what was originally planned.

For involuntary commitments, most will be sent to a crisis center typically within 10 to 23 hours if needed, West said. If hospitalization is necessary, he said, they will be sent to one of the four main Triad hospitals, Old Vineyard Behavioral Health Services or a state facility.

For individuals requiring alcohol or drug detox, patients will be started on care before being transferred to a 24-7 crisis center.

Source: journalnow.com

Makassar - Pemerintah kota (pemkot) Makassar melalui Dinas Kesehatan (Dinkes) kota Makassar kembali meraih penghargaan Pastika Parahita dari Kementerian Kesehatan di The Alana Hotel & Convention Center, Yogyakarta, pada Rabu, (12/7/2017) pekan lalu.

Kepala Dinkes, Naisyah Tun Azikin mengatakan penghargaan tersebut diberikan atas keberhasilan Makassar membangun kota sehat tanpa asap rokok melalui peraturan daerah.

“Penghargaan ini atas keberhasilan kita menegakkan peraturan bebas asap rokok,” ujarnya kepada KABAR.NEWS, Selasa (18/7/2017).

Sementara, Wali Kota Makassar Mohammad Ramdhan ‘Danny’ Pomanto yang mendengar kabar tersebut menyampaikan rasa syukur atas penghargaan yang diraih. 

“Alhamdulillah, Makassar kembali diganjar penghargaan nasional. Penghargaan ini bentuk komitmen kita dalam membangun kota sehat bagi warga dan lingkungannya,” ucap Danny. 

Sesuai dengan Peraturan Daerah (Perda) Kota Makassar nomor 4 Tahun 2013 tentang kawasan tanpa rokok, telah lama diterapkan di Makassar.

Sumber: kabar.news

Jakarta - Suku Dinas Kesehatan (Sudinkes) Jakarta Barat, Ikatan Dokter Indonesia (IDI), serta Polres Metro Jakarta Barat memeriksa klinik yang diduga melakukan rehabilitasi narkoba di Tamansari. Tindakan itu adalah tindak lanjut dari adanya dugaan pelanggaran proses rehabilitasi narkoba. 

“(Yang hari ini di cek) Klinik Ayudia, Klinik Sehati, dan Klinik Manuela,” ujar Kasudin Kesehatan DKI Jakarta Weningtyas kepada wartawan di Klinik Manuela, Jalan Tamansari X, Tamansari, Jakarta Barat, (10/7/2017).

Kasudin Kesehatan Jakarta Barat dan rombongan melakukan pengecekan satu per satu. Hal yang dicek berupa fasilitas kesehatan dan perizinan tenaga medis.

“Kalau tiga klinik ini memiliki izin, (Klinik) Manuela izin klinik utama (spesialis), Sehati dan Ayudia itu izin klinik pratama (umum). Nanti hasil keseluruhannya kami umumkan,” ujar Weningtyas.

Ketiga klinik tersebut diduga melakukan detoksifikasi dengan cara diinfus, disuntik, dan diberi obat. Terkait dengan boleh-tidaknya detoksifikasi dilakukan klinik, Weningtyas masih melakukan audit. 

“Hasilnya sedang kami lengkapi, nanti ya hasil audit medis akan kami umumkan,” ujar Weningtyas.

Selain itu, Ketua IDI Jakarta Barat Dollar mengatakan klinik tersebut bukan klinik rehabilitasi. “Klinik itu bukan rehabilitasi, jangan salah, kasihan klinik ini,” kata Dollar di lokasi yang sama.

Namun Dollar mengatakan klinik bisa melakukan tindakan rehabilitasi berupa detoksifikasi. Termasuk melakukan infus detoksifikasi.

“Boleh (infus detoksifikasi) kalau ke rumah sakit kan sama aja. Boleh, nggak ada aturan,” ucapnya.

Sebelumnya, Dinas Kesehatan DKI Jakarta menyelidiki empat klinik di Tamansari. Hasilnya, satu klinik tidak memiliki izin praktik.

“Empat klinik itu adalah Klinik Mabes 8, Klinik Ayudia, Klinik Manuela, dan Klinik Sehati. Kami sudah melakukan pemeriksaan, satu (Mabes 8) tidak ada izin, itu kami tutup. Tiga lainnya memiliki izin,” kata Kepala Dinas Kesehatan DKI Jakarta Koesmedi Priharto saat dihubungi pada Jumat (7/7) malam.

Tiga klinik lain bukan tanpa masalah. Mereka melakukan detoksifikasi dengan cara infus. 

“Temuan sementara kami, ketiga klinik melanggar karena melakukan detoksifikasi maupun kegiatan lain lewat infus. Hal seperti itu hanya boleh dilakukan di rumah sakit,” kata Koesmedi.  (aik/dhn)

Sumber: detik.com