Ivanovo Regional Clinical Hospital, a state-run healthcare institution, is a multi-field treatment and diagnostic complex for 1,180 patients and an outpatient clinic for children and adults capable of receiving 800 visitors a day.
The hospital personnel of 1560 includes 364 doctors and 626 other healthcare professionals.
The hospital has 31 clinical departments and diagnostic centres with state-of-the-art medical equipment. The hospital receives more than 32,000 people for in-patient treatment and more than 18,000 operations are performed there daily.
The equipment there makes it possible to conduct modern research and all necessary procedures.
In 2007 the region adopted a single multilevel system of medical treatment to patients with acute coronary syndrome. On 1 December 2007, the hospital opened a Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery and Interventional Cardiology, providing high-tech medical assistance in the field of cardiovascular surgery.
The hospital is providing a round-the-clock advanced service to patients having an acute coronary syndrome. Since 2005 the number of open-heart surgeries performed has doubled, which resulted in the reduction of infarction mortality by 25%.
On 1 December 2008, as part of the Health priority national project, the hospital opened its Regional Vascular Centre for patients suffering from vascular diseases. The federal budget funds allocated to implement the programme amounted to 241.5 million roubles. The total regional budget financing for launching the Regional Vascular Centre was 125,284,000 roubles.
Following the adoption of telemedicine, the number of consultations rendered by the centre's personnel has increased fivefold. Compared to the same period last year, in the first nine months of 2010 the mortality rate among patients suffering from acute cerebrovascular problems fell by 30%
Since 1 January 2010, the level 1 Trauma Centre has been providing medical treatment to the victims of traffic accidents in Ivanovo Region. The Ivanovo Region clinical hospital has been supplemented by a U/S diagnostic centre, an X-ray interoperation unit and anaesthesia-respiratory apparatus.
The above measures helped to reduce the rate of deaths from traffic accidents by 11.6% in the first eight months of 2010.
The regional clinical hospital has been included in the programme of healthcare modernisation in the following areas:
- improvement of physical infrastructure in priority areas;
- major repair of medical workers' housing at the expense of the regional budget;
- equipment for the ophthalmology centre, cardio-surgery centre and the level 1 trauma centre.