Hatanpää Hospital

Hatanpaa Hospital is a specialized acute care Unit of Tampere City Healthcare services. The hospital has 368 beds and employs 600 persons, out of which 86 are doctors. Hatanpää Hospital provides specialised medical care services for which patients need a referral.

Hatanpää Hospital provides outpatient services, surgical services and inpatient care. Supporting services include fully digitalised medical imaging services, anaesthesia services and medical instrument maintenance services.

Outpatient Care

Outpatient Clinic offers wide range of services for patients that do not require hospitalization. The patients come in with referral.

The specialties covered are: gastroenterology, orthopaedics, urology, internal medicine (cardiology), gynaecology, otorhinolaryngology, rheumatology, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, Dermatology and Allergology.

The patient is informed of the booked appointment. Along with the appointment letter, the patient also receives the necessary advice for preparing for the procedure.

Surgical care

Surgical services are either given in day surgery or in main operation theatres.
Hatanpää Hospital is specialized especially in scopic surgery in gastroenterology, orthopaedics and urology.

The goal is to minimize the time patient has to stay in hospital. That is why the hospital has modern and independent day surgery. It operates fast and efficiently without compromising quality of care, patient safety and customer satisfaction.

In the operation theatres we treat breast cancer among other things. The patients are transported to recovery after operation and further to inpatient care in order to be rehabilitated home.

Patients in day case surgery leave the hospital on the same day they are operated.

The speciality areas of day case surgery are orthopaedics, general surgery, urology, paediatric surgery as well as surgery of mouth and chin. Day case surgery also provides anaesthesia services such as epidural anaesthesia for pain.

At the surgical bed wards B2 and B3 surgical and further care patients as well as those undergoing medical examinations are treated.

The orthopaedic wards A2 and A3 treat patients with musculoskeletal diseases.

Inpatient care

Inpatient care is provided to patients who remain in the hospital before, during, and after receiving medical services at Hatanpaa hospital.

The wards are under renovation. They have been planned in cooperation with medical staff thus guaranteeing satisfactory work place for employees and comfortable stay for patients.

Hatanpää Hospital has internal medicine wards, surgical wards and wards for infectious diseases.
The goal is to rehabilitate patients fast and prevent institutionalization for example by giving physical therapy.

The bed wards A4, B4 and B5 for patients with medical disorders treat specific groups of patients the care of whom the bed ward concerned is specialised in.

The patients coming to these bed wards have a referral and have been taken from the waiting list, or they are emergency cases, or they come to these wards from other institutions to receive further care.

Infectious diseases

Bed ward B1 for patients with infectious diseases treats Tampere residents with infections requiring hospital care.
Common cases are pneumonia, urinary tract infection or skin infection.

Acute home care

Whenever home is the most convenient place for acute care, the hatnpää Hospital provides staff and resources for that.
The hospital offers several treatments such as IV antibiotic care, wound care, pain care, IV nutrition, fistula care and enteral nutrition.

In additon the acute home care takes care of postoperative surgical patients and those suffering from congestive heart failure. Diabetics, post stroke patients and chronic obstructive lung disease and asthma patients are served as well.

The period of care varies from a few days to 3–4 weeks.

Acute home care is not intended for patients, who does not want home care or do not require acute medical care.

Supporting services

Imaging services
Imaging services offer an extensive array of fully digitalised imaging services, starting from breast cancer screening up to MRI diagnostics, including CT scanning, too. Images are available at the point of care whenever needed. We use RIS, MIS and PACS systems for streamlining our workflow.

Anaesthesia Services
Anaesthesia services provides general and regional anaesthetics for a large variety of surgical procedures. The unit supplies also postoperative and chronic pain management. In addition, anaesthesia department takes care of emergency services including resuscitations inside the hospital and consultations of the critical situations on the ward. Co-operation with internists includes mainly giving general anaesthesia for the arrhythmic patients. Anaesthetists also take care of the patients in the acute postoperative ward after major operative procedures.

Instrument Maintenance Services
The Department of Instrument Maintenance provides cleaning, disinfection and sterilisation services for instruments used at Hatanpaa Hospital for patient care.

Social services
Social workers inform and advice patients about social services and social security issues. They can also give practical assistance for patients if needed. In co-operation with ward personnel social workers evaluate patients need for facilities and services in daily life. They coordinate and arrange home care services in collaboration with municipal home care department, private and informal sector. In addition social workers can provide psychosocial support to patient with acute, chronic or terminal illness, not forgetting relatives.