This is a challenge under Component 13: Accessible and quality long-term social care, which should help significantly reduce the lack of beds that hospitals need to treat or treat patients after hospitalization on acute beds. In this way, patients will not have to be sent home, on the contrary, they will continue to receive adequate healthcare.
The aim of the call is to create a minimum of 650 follow-up beds by using the relaxed capacity of acute and chronic beds after optimising the hospital network. The indicative amount for the call amounts to EUR 26 869 838, VAT excluded. Applications for funding may be submitted by eligible applicants from mid-May 2023 until the funds allocated are exhausted, but no later than 17 July 2023.
Authorised applicants are institutional healthcare providers who are included in the currently valid list of categorised hospitals published on the website of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic. More information on the call: ISPO Portal. sk).
This call is published through the ISPO portal for the first time in MZ SR. Registration in ISPO is necessary to register and send the application, to which the potential applicant can also be accessed through the Health Ministry's website: https://www.health.gov.sk/?Plan-refresh-and-resistance.
In the coming days, the Ministry will also announce a call: Extension and renewal of residential palliative care capacities - extension and renewal of the capacity of the Palliative Care Department as the last of the challenges in Component 13.