Home Healthcare Conference in Abu Dhabi hosted by Manzil Healthcare Services and Partners HealthCare at Home

Manzil Healthcare Services – The leading home healthcare provider in the Middle East – highlighted recent advances in patient care at the Home Healthcare Conference in Abu Dhabi. The event highlighted key trends and challenges around providing home healthcare and was the first Home Healthcare conference carried out in close collaboration with Manzil’s international affiliate, Boston-based, Partners HealthCare at Home (part of Spaulding Rehabilitation Network affiliated with Harvard Medical School). Manzil and Partners HealthCare at Home are committed to delivering compassionate care across the healthcare continuum to improve quality of life for persons recovering from, or learning to live fully with, illness, injury and disability.

This year’s inaugural conference at the Four Season highlighted key trends and challenges around providing home healthcare, such as Ventilator at Home services and included key stakeholder commentary and panel discussions around how home healthcare can impact and improve patient care, quality of Life for patient’s and reduce healthcare costs. The event aimed to help medical professionals learn about the latest best practices in terms of providing quality care at home as well possible strategies to better coordinate patient care across care settings.

“At Manzil Healthcare Services we are dedicated to improving the quality of Life for both patients and their families,” says Dr Sarper Tanli, Group Chief Executive Office, Manzil Healthcare Services. “By hosting the region’s inaugural Home Healthcare Conference, we hope to have educated carers and medical professionals on the many benefits of home healthcare services and the latest technologies that provide vulnerable patients, such as patients in need of Ventilator at Home services, with the highest quality of care that they need.”

Previously regarded as ‘hospital only’, advances in medical technology mean that Ventilator therapy is now viable for use in patients’ own homes. Manzil Healthcare Services provides the multiple layers of expertise which are essential for safe and effective home Ventilator therapy in the UAE. Ventilator at Home may be suitable for a range of pathological processes and disorders, including those affecting the central nervous system, neuromuscular, skeletal, cardiovascular, and respiratory systems. There are numerous benefits to Ventilator at Home, as opposed to traditional in-patient care, in particular those which affect a patient's quality of life, such as family and community integration, familiar surroundings, more independence, and normal levels of noise and light for increased comfort. Other factors include a reduced risk from hospital-borne infections, substantial cost savings for patients and insurers, and freeing up ICU beds in hospitals for acutely ill patients in need of emergency care.

Rey Spadoni, President of Partners HealthCare at Home, said “We are pleased to collaborate with our colleagues at Manzil Healthcare Services as they work to bring state-of-the-art home health care services to patients throughout the United Arab Emirates.  Partners HealthCare at Home is one of the largest home health care organizations in the United States, focusing on disease management, deployment of new and innovative technologies into home settings and launching successful advanced practice nursing programs across the care continuum. Our work has helped lower the total cost of medical care while enhancing the patient experience and improving outcomes.  Our work to date with the team at Manzil has focused on sharing our best practices and we are delighted to collaborate with them in presenting our first joint home care conference.”
 

Chronic illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension and pulmonary disease are particularly prevalent in the region and create a major burden on society and the healthcare system. The Home Healthcare Conference highlighted Manzil Healthcare Services long-term strategy to combat these diseases through its work alongside both the public and private health sectors. The topics covered included how it is possible to manage the burden of these diseases through education, lifestyle changes and intervention using the latest technologies, as well as the important role that home care plays in chronic disease management.

Manzil Healthcare Services is the Middle East’s first stand-alone internationally accredited home healthcare provider, which employs over 340 qualified staff, including Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Northern Emirates licensed nurses, therapists and physicians. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE, the organization also operates in Egypt and Qatar, and has branches in Al Ain, Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah. Manzil Healthcare Services recognizes the importance of providing the highest quality, multi-disciplinary care, based on the latest technology, to patients in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of their own homes. Its services include skilled nursing, cardiac care, rehabilitation services, diabetic care, mother and baby care, respiratory care, infusion/perfusion, and educational services. Through its collaboration with Partners HealthCare at Home, part of the Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate Spaulding Rehabilitation Network in Boston, USA, the company also provides ongoing clinical education and training for staff.