Family Planning

Hospital Administration

Women's Health

In 1999 the partnership received additional funding to focus on the following objectives:

Nursing

Development of Training Program

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Family Planning

• In May 1994, the partners opened the Woman and Family Planning Clinic, which offers low-cost, high-quality family planning services. It is the first comprehensive family planning program in the eastern region of Moscow and one of the first clinics in Russia to include pap smears, sexually transmitted disease testing and preventive health counseling in a standardized model of women's health care. In its first four months of operation, more than 2,000 women used the services offered.
• To build on the success of the Woman and Family Planning Clinic, Magee-Women's Hospital submitted a proposal to the Save the Children Foundation. The partnership was granted $400,000 to replicate the Magee-Savior's Family Planning Clinic in 18 regions of Russia through a program entitled Rural Outreach to Russia.
• The partnership completed an epidemiological study to record baseline data and statistics from the Woman and Family Education Center, the Woman and Family Planning Clinic and four Moscow birth houses.

Women's Health

• In July 1993, the partners created a Woman and Family Education Center; the center offers classes in prenatal care, family planning, general women's health and labor and birth preparation for parents and siblings. In addition, the center offers special health classes designed for teenagers. Six Russian childbirth educators, trained and registered with the International Childbirth Educators Association (ICEA), staff the Center. The Center serves an average of 400 Russian women per week from Moscow and two outlying rural areas.
• As a result of partnership successes, the partnership signed a cooperative agreement with World Visions to develop a community health education program; the partnership initiated an educational program for new mothers and adolescent girls.
• Initiated by partnership efforts, Savior's Woman and Family Foundation is the first registered Russian non-profit organization to support a hospital through fundraising, community service programs, consumer education and volunteer activities. The auxiliary's mission is to provide support services for both staff and visitors; to make available funds for the purchase of supplies and equipment; and to support educational and training programs for staff and consumers.
• Savior's Chief of Surgery, in collaboration with Magee cardiologists, designed treatment protocols for women with cardiac disorders during prenatal and post-natal periods. In addition, he worked with Magee ambulatory care administrators on plans for the future Savior's Ambulatory Care Center for Women.
• In June 1998, Magee and Savior's opened the Moscow WWC. The Center includes a variety of services including the screening and treatment of breast disease, prevention and treatment of problems associated with menopause and the post-menopausal period, and osteoporosis. The center operates on the philosophy of patient-centered care, with an emphasis on customer service and respect for women and their health needs. The staff introduced patient-satisfaction surveys to identify concerns and preferences.
• In order to provide comprehensive services, Savior's has hired additional part-time and full-time staff, including a mammologist, endocrinologist, psychologist and therapist. The staff at the WWC indicated that the diversification of services has led to an increase in patient visits.
• The Center records patient visits and information in a database developed by AIHA. In 1998, the Center served 2,275 patients.
• The partnership printed and distributed pregnancy guides and calendars, family planning materials, contraception and women's health brochures, and breast self-exam cards. Among the numerous printed materials and videos produced in Russian are: Premenstrual Syndrome, Breast Self-Exam, Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy, Nutrition During Pregnancy, The Story of Conception, Planning Your Family: Birth Control Options, Signs of Premature Labor, Basic Infection Control Guide, Partners in Birth, Your Baby and You-First Weeks at Home, Puberty: Bodies in Progress for Boys/for Girls. They have also produced 18 Infomercials on Women's Health.

Hospital Administration

• Hospital administrators from Savior's have observed the administration and operation of Magee's housekeeping department with emphasis on infection control. To date more than 100 Russian professionals have been trained in basic infection control techniques. The partnership conducted two infection control workshops in 1997 and 1998.
• The partners have designed a nurse management training program in clinical systems and support operations of the Birth House. In addition, they have produced a policy and procedure manual for the management of the Birth House and the Family Planning Clinic.
• The partnership worked with administrators to improve patient-flow management and increase out-patient services to reduce hospital costs related to in-patient services and extended hospital stays.
• Selected as a training site by Management Sciences for Health, Magee has hosted over 400 Russian health care executives for training in hospital financial management. The administrators have learned about the policies and procedures in hospital workplace safety, and the orientation and training of non-medical hospital staff including the writing of job descriptions and employee contracts, performance appraisals and budgeting for cost centers.
• Over $300,000 in corporate support and cash contributions have been donated to the Women and Family Foundation throughout the life of the partnership from Avon, Johnson & Johnson, and Heinz to support the development and distribution of the partnership's consumer education repertoire.

Development of Training Program

• On-going national efforts to promote prepared childbirth classes resulted in the 1999 Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation declaration that the Magee-Savior's childbirth curriculum be published and taught in continuing education program for Russian physicians and nurses.
• Training binders on Domestic Violence, Childbirth Education and Non-Profit management were developed to use for reference and training purposes.