The Korean Nurses Association (KNA) announced Wednesday that it signed an agreement with Anseong City in Gyeonggi Province to operate an "Integrated Home Nursing Center," establishing a new model for community nursing and care.
The agreement was pursued to overcome the limitations of Anseong's medical infrastructure, as the city had no home nursing service providers and had to rely on neighboring municipalities.
The Integrated Home Nursing Center will operate by dispatching nurses directly to the homes of elderly patients who require care after surgery or discharge from hospitals, or who need ongoing disease management. Services will be provided based on orders from physicians, Korean medicine doctors, and dentists. This marks the first case in which the KNA has directly participated in establishing and operating a nursing service facility. The services will be available regardless of long-term care eligibility, linked to the "Primary Care Home Visit Fee Pilot Program."
The KNA expressed its commitment to building a medical network with no blind spots by deploying clinical expertise and policy know-how directly in the field.
"The Anseong Integrated Home Nursing Center is the first initiative led by the association as an organization, not by an individual," KNA President Shin Kyung-rim said. "We will leverage the association's professional capabilities to support Anseong in becoming Korea's leading city for integrated medical and care services."