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Projects under implementation
- Professional training in neonatology and promoting the use of new technologies for health sector personnel” project started in 1st July 2010. Our partners are the University of Medicine and Pharmacy T.Popa" from Iasi, SIVECO Romania and the Romanian Medical College. The project is co-financed from European Social Fund, Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013, Priority Axis no 3 “Increasing the adaptability of workers and enterprises”, major intervention field 3.2 “Training and support for enterprises to promote adaptability” and aims to improve the professional skills of the staff involved in newborn care. The target group is composed of medical staff from maternities (all levels) in number 400 and another 250 doctors from other specialties who are involved in newborn care. In the present the continous medical education means mostly classic training courses. The project would like to continue this kind of training combined with modern eLearning methods which helps increasing the absorption and understanding of new concepts and ideas in neonatology. In this context, the project proposed classic and digital courses for the target group to acquire medical knowledge in neonatology. The innovative format of the courses means digitized educational materials using eLearning platform and a pediatric manequin for practical maneuvers. The manequin is equipped with complex physiological models, which allows both trainer and trainee to simulate real situations.
- The Regional Centre of Excellence to improve process performance of the Health Care System in Romania project was implemented in 2nd December 2010. Our partners are the National School of Public Health and Health Management, institution with a tradition of over 12 years in public health training and management of health professionals; Advanced Thinking SRL organisation with experience in training projects, optimization and efficiency of processes in different organizations and Freiburg University Hospital from Germany, one of the largest medical centers in Central Europe with a Quality Management Department, which oversees all activities related to quality management, being represented by an inter-professional team that combines expertise in health, social sciences, IT, knowledge, educational, statistics and administration. The project is co-financed from European Social Fund, Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013, Priority Axis no 3 “Increasing the adaptability of workers and enterprises”, major intervention field 3.2 “Training and support for enterprises to promote adaptability”.
The objective of the project is to increase the adaptability and flexibility of the medical staff and healthcare managers by implementing innovative concepts and cost-effective optimization of the processes that lead to the development of professional skills, in particular in management and health management quality in order to improve performance, efficiency and quality of health services. The international partner facilitates the transfer of know-how, the internationally recognized knowledge and good practices through exchange of experience, in order to increase the adaptability of human resources working in public health sector. A national center and 3 regional centers of excellence will be created to help process performance improvement in health care system.
- The training program in neonatal resuscitation (NRP) consists in organizing training sessions for medical staff in different level III centers all around the country. First group of such sessions took place in March 2009 in Craiova, Bucharest and Constanta.
- SIMPA Project is a complex research project (September 2007 – September 2010) and it targets to develop a monitoring system of the vital signals and of the evolution of some chronically patients (diabetic, pregnancy etc.); is funded by the Ministry of Education and Research through the Program no 4 – Partnerships for priority domains. Here CRED Foundation is a partner of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy „Gr.T.Popa” Iasi, Technical University „Gh.Asachi” Iasi and University “Ovidius” Constanta.
- Development of perinatal strategy in Macedonia [link] –funded by UNICEF Macedonia – is implemented in partnership with SCIH and offers support to the Perinatal National Committee; CRED Foundation contributes with its regional experience in perinatal care.
- Health Technology Management in perinatology (Rep. Moldova) [link] is a componet of the Moldovan-Swiss Perinatal Project, financed by the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency; it includes participation of CRED expert in the implementation of the HTM concept and the setting up of experience exchange between Romania and Moldovan specialists.
- As member of the Guidelines International Network [link] and active participant to the Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) [link] development process and to the introduction of the quality management concept in health in Romania, CRED Foundation offers technical assistance and contributes to quality improvement and quality monitoring of health services. The first ISO 9001:2000 certification of one maternity ward in Romania (Regional Centre for Neonatal Intensive Care at Cuza-Voda Maternity, Iasi [link]. in January 2008 constitutes one great result of these efforts.
CRED participates to several professional events where Quality Management (QM) in health and services quality are addressed; to mention few presentations given by CRED at national or international conferences
- CRED Foundation participates to several professional events where Quality Management (QM) in health and services quality are addressed; to mention few presentations given by CRED at national or international conferences:
- - „Quality Management in perinatal care in Romania”, National Perinatology Conference, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova, October 2006 ; [link]
- - „Transparency and Communication – A Roadmap to Consensus / Introduction of Clinical Practice Guidelines to Perinatal Care in Romania, Guidelines International Network Conference, Toronto, August 2007 [link]
Finalized projects
- The Romanian-Swiss Neonatology Project “RoNeonat” [link] funded by the Swiss Government through the Swiss Cooperation and Development Agency (SDC): during this project several model concepts have been piloted and now they are nationally implemented by the Ministry of Health through the Health Sector Reform Program (World Bank and European Development bank funds).
- Training Program for Neonatal Emergencies. CRED Foundation has implemented at national level during year 2006 and 2007 the „Training Program for Neonatal Emergencies”. Being co-financed by the Ministry of Health and Swiss Development and Cooperation, this program has been complementary to the investments in new equipment for the newborn wards.
- The Project “Quality Assurance System for Maternal and Neonatal Health Services”, part of the Romanian Health Sector Reform of the Ministry of Health, funded by the World Bank has been implemented by the Swiss Centre for International Health of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel and by CRED Foundation between September 2009 and May 2010. The project concluded as priorities: implementation of quality management systems, necessity of motivated staff, adaptation of clinical practice guidelines into local protocols.
- The Project “Development of an operational manual on the maternal & neonatal referral system”, part of the Romanian Health Sector Reform of the Ministry of Health, funded by the World Bank has been implemented by the CRED Foundation and the Swiss Centre for International Health of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel between September 2009 and March 2010. The main steps of the future implementing measures are: update of the regionalisation system and use of methodological and professional channels between level III and the other centres.
- The Project “Training program for staff of obstetrics-gynaecology and neonatology units”, part of the Romanian Health Sector Reform of the Ministry of Health, funded by the World Bank has been implemented by the CRED Foundation and the Swiss Centre for International Health of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel between September 2009 and June 2010. The project used the professional training as an instrument for capacity building, main subjects of the curricula being: regionalisation of services, evidence-based practice, neonatal resuscitation, communication between medical staff and patients and others. Almost 800 participants (doctors, midwives and nurses) have been trained in 10 regional training centers.
- Support for women with postpartum mental health problems [link].This project is implemented in the frame of the Phare Program / 2006 / 018-147.03.12 and addresses problems of women with risk of postpartum distress.
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