US Federal
Benefits.
Possibility
of US social security to transfer deposit to a bank account
in Uruguay. This procedure can be arranged through the US
Social Security Administration.
In
1992 the United States and Uruguay signed a payments
agreement or portability in the area of Social Security.
This agreement is valid since July 2, 1993.
Through
the agreement, US and Uruguayan citizens can collect their
social benefits in either country.
Private Pension.
Similar
arrangement to transfer deposit to a bank account in
Uruguay.
Medical
Insurance.
US
citizen should check with an American carrier or health
insurance company in the US on overseas medical expenses.
In general, US citizens
covered by a US health insurance who receive medical
attention in a Uruguayan hospital, must pay to the hospital
and arrange by themselves with their health insurance
company in the US.
The
US Consulate in
Montevideo provides a list of Uruguayan hospitals which
offer assistance to US citizens in Uruguay.
On
the other hand, US citizens can become members of a
Uruguayan medical mutualist, or private hospital for medical
assistance through a monthly payment.
Read
more information, in Spanish.
We enclose
herewith information received from the “Asociacion Española
Primera de Socorros Mutuos”, private hospital in Uruguay.
Dossier.
The
Asociacion Española Primera de Socorros Mutuos is a
private Hospital founded on 1853. Nowadays there are about
180.000 associates and 460 beds for patients
in admission -61 of them private – taking into account the
recent inauguration of our Sanatorium Oscar Magurno Souto
with 3 exclusive floors for patients under admission, with
other 52 private rooms with TV, Frigobar and breakfast for
the patient's companion.
In our hospital, you can
also find over 2000 very well qualified professionals and
the most advanced technological support in Uruguay and 6
Intensive Treatment Centres: General, Pediatric, Cardiac
Surgery, Cardiological, Neurosurgical and Neonatal, in
addition to an Emergency Room with 27 beds for
adults, 4 for children, and other 4 Specialized
Internment Centres that has other 114 beds.
Our equipment includes
12 Operation Theaters, remarking the specialized ones
in: Cardiac surgery, Highly Surgery specialized in Column
(White Room), Neurosurgery and Sterotáxica Surgery,
Laparoscópic Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, in addition
to the one in the Emergency Service.
In
relation with Diagnosis Techniques, we offer
our own services with technological equipment of first level
mentioning the most important ones among others: Clinical
Laboratory, Molecular Biology Laboratory, Radiology,
Ecography and Eco Doppler, Hemodinamia equipment with
Digital Angiography, Computed Tomografy, Magnetic Resonance,
Nuclear Medicine, Isolation Unit with laminar flow camera,
Endoscopy Service, etc.
Highly Specialized
Medicine Institutes.
We
also count with 6 HSMI, that are mentioned in details
as follows:
-
Cardiac Surgery
Service, where cardiac surgeries are made, hemodinamias,
angioplastics and sten implants.
-
Cardiac
Electrophisiology Service, emphasizing the same one
implants of cardiofibrilators among other procedures.
-
Locomotive Surgery
Unit: implants of prothesis of hip and knee Apparatus.
-
Marrow Bone Transplant
Unit (adults and children).
-
Chronic and Acute
Dialyses Center.
-
Burned Patient's
Center.
Our Services.
All of our services cover
the medical and surgical specialities not depending on the
associate's age. We also cover outside consultations
(specialized clinic, address, urgency, emergency) and the
patient treatment in our hospital:
-
Alergology
-
Anesthiology
-
Cardiology
-
Children Cardiology
-
Column Surgery
-
Maxillary Face Surgery
-
Odontologic Surgery
-
Pediátric Surgery
-
Plastic and Repairing
surgery
-
Kidnological Surgery
-
Thorax Surgery
-
Vascular Surgery
-
Dermathology
-
Diabethology
-
Endocrinoligy
-
Phonoaudiology
-
Gastroenterology
-
Infantile
Gastroentherology
-
Geriatrics
-
Ginecotocology
-
Gineco – Onocology
-
Hemato Infantile
Oncology
-
General Medicine
-
Internal Medicine
-
Nefrology
-
Pediatric Nefrology
-
Neumology
-
Pediatric Neumology
-
Neurology
-
Neurosurgery
-
Neuropediatrics
-
Odontolgy
-
Ophtalmology
-
Pediatric Ophtalmology
-
Oncology
-
Infantile Ortopethia
-
Otorrinolaringology
-
Pediatrics
-
Asthma Specialized
Clinic
-
Anticoagulation
Specialized Clinic
-
Cornea Specialized
Clinic
-
Arterial Tension
Control Specialized Clinic
-
Stereotaxics
Specialized Clinic
-
Specialized Clinic on
Menopause
-
Specialized Clinic
Osteosintesis
-
Knee Specialized
Clinic
-
Fibrilation Treatment
Specialized Clinic
-
Infected Illneses-
Contagious
-
Rheumatology
-
Dental Radiology
-
Psychology
-
Psychiatry
-
Infantile Psychiatry
-
Traumathology
-
Neonatal Unit
-
Cardiac Insufficiency
Unit
-
Pethiatric Urology
Serveices that make the
difference.
General
Medicine.
In this area the Institution offers 114
professionals which are chosen by he associates.
Ginecotologia.
Associates will be able to chose out of the 35
specialists we have.
Pediatrics.
Our Institution counts with the international
accreditation that difference us from others, such as the
title "Hospital Children´s friend " granted on August 14th
of 1998, by the Ministry of Public Health, according to
initiative of the World-Wide Health Organization and UNICEF.
Besides having pediatric doctors in the Central Seat and
branches, we also have specialists in all areas: Cardiology,
Surgery, Gastroenterology, Hemato oncology, Nefrología,
Neumology, Neuropediatrics, Ophtalmology, Ortopethia and
Urology.
Inferior
Tracto Genital Specialized Clinic.
It provides last
generation equipment, the best experts with a national and
international extensive qualification which carries out
treatments for uterine neck, vagina, and vulva diseases in
an ambulatory way.
Specialized
Clinic Of Preconceptional Advising And Fetal Malformations
Prevention.
Unique in the country as much as in public level as in
private, and in whose scope the preconcepcional consultation
is made that can be more important in the attendance to the
health in the context of its effects on pregnancy.
Center
Of Mammary Diagnosis.
Where take place the techniques of diagnose
for the precocious detection of cancer, treatment and
control.
Specialized
Clinic Of Adolescent Care.
Unique Clinic in the country to offer
Customized and Integral Attention through a
interdisciplinary equipment, in addition on the exclusive
premises where the accent in preventive activities looking
for factors or conducts of risk is put that ready to the
pathologies or more frequent morbid situations in that
etharial group (problems of academic yield, alterations of
humor, problems of conduct and nutritional disorder,
difficulties in the familiar relationship, etc.), offers in
addition advising in the area to sexual education,
prevention of accidents, normal process of the puberty.
Center
of Quality of Life.
The first and only Preventive - Educative Center, in charge
of athletical doctors, cardiologists, nutricionist and
professors of physical education, that the factors of risk
through progressive routines of physical exercises and plans
of nourishing reeducation diminish. They count for it with
four (4) gymnasiums equipped with eight (8) ergometric s
tapes, twelve (12) bicycles and eight (8) equipment of
sound-ranging monotorizaction, added to the comfort that
offers two (2) masculine clothes and two (2) feminine ones.
Psycology
& Psychiatry.
In
this one area our institution offers psychological
evaluation, psycotherapy, specialized attention for
adolescents and psycology for oncologic patients. Between
the therapies that are applied we emphasized: individual,
group, and couple.
Specialized
Clinic of Tobacco Adiction.
It develops a program for different etharial groups to
obtain the cessation of consume of tobacco.
Specialized
Clinic on Diabetology.
It
includes, in addition to the specialistic professionals, a
multidisciplinary equipment for support made of: podology,
psychiatrics and psycologist.
Specialized
Clinic on Alcohol and Drug Adiction.
Specialized
clinic in charge of treatment of the illegal use of drugs
and alcohol which an interdisciplinary team specialized in
recovery and treatment of patients with addiction problems.
Unit
of Cardiac Insufficiency.
Unique service in the country in promoting a modern, and
efficient treatment of the patient with cardiac
insufficiency. It includes diagnosis stages and
pharmacological therapy, surgical therapy and as much as
electrical therapy, as well as the evolutionary control,
trying to improve the quality of life of the patients with
this pathology.
Neonatal
Unit.
This service offers to the new born a progressive and
continuous care, assisted from the intrauterine stage to its
birth, attention to the mother - son, intensive cares and
promotion of lactancy.
Psicogeriatric
Center.
Unique service dedicated to the patients of the third age
who need specialized psychiatry and psychological attention.
Hospi
Saunders I y II.
Unique
centers of palliative cares with active attention of the
patients whose disease does not respond to treatments, with
therapeutic services conceived to respond to physical,
psychic, social and spiritual necessities.
Rehabilitation
Center.
This center, also unique, precociously rehabilitates the
patient who has been taken part of his locomotive apparatus
(prothesis of hip, rolls and shoulder) and offers
complementary rehabilitation in patients who have undergone
great neurological and neurothraumatological events.
Pediátric
Cardiosurgery.
This service has the best professionals of the country,
supervised permanently by professionals of San Pablo, center
of world-wide reference in this discipline.
Laboratory
of Clinical Analyses.
In our own laboratories the following disciplines are
developed: molecular, biochemical biology, citogenetics,
cytology, citometry de flow, hematology, inmunology,
microbiology and parasitology.
Also
our branch at solymar (canelones) has a complete laboratory.
As much as the laboratories of our central seat as the one
in solymar, is connected through a computer system that
allows a quick comunication of the information that shortens
the times of results and increases the fidelity of the data.
PADO
(Program of Domiciliary Attention).
Its primary objective is to maintain at home the patient
that needs second level of care, giving him a customized
medical attention and an enfermary support that improves its
quality of life during the acute disease or the acute
descompensación of a chronic illness.
Odontholgy.
It
´s objective is to promote the buccal health, offering the
necessary services to obtain: educative, preventive, welfare
helth and surgiry. all the doctor's offices are equipped
with last generation technology: pump and micromotors,
turbines, sterilizers, , electrical anatomical armchairs,
fotocured lamps of suction. We also have laser beams
equipment Er-YAG and all the necessary infrastructure for
its use.
Woman's
Center.
A
center that reunites all the specialties so that the women
can receive attention (clinical and paraclinic) in a single
place.
Secondary
Branches, and Doctor's Offices.
Doctor's
offices.
The institution counts on 5 zonal units and a service of
physical therapy. Incorporating these units of ambulatory
medical services, closest took to the remotest districts
branches for better access for the associate. In each unit,
it had a medicine office, with 400 to 500 pharmaceutical
specialties, that are those that asks for and prescribes the
doctors of each specialty in each zonal branch. It also had
the necessary ones to certain medical emergencies.
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