Home Visits

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Home Visits are considered one of the fundamental pillars of the Pro Palliative Care Unit Foundation. Through this activity the patients and their family attention continuity is guaranteed, and it is the way by which the patient's condition and evolution are periodically evaluated, besides allowing to make specific interventions.

Home Visits are made according to a chronogram prioritizing those patients whose condition demands a closer follow up.

The Home Visits Program covers the whole country and more than 1800 domiciliary visits have been done. More than 500 nourishing aids and more than 850 special aids (medicines, pumps, Ensure, among others) have been given to patients with limited economic resources.

The Foundation contributes with the vehicles, the driver, gasoline, as well as with the lodging and meals expenses of the team that visits the patients in the countryside. Routes are always tried to be established, in order to visit the greater possible number of patients during each trip.

Quesada Tristán, MD and Julieta Rodríguez, the accompanying nurse, on their way to Caracol de la Vaca, Talamanca to visit a patient with a cerebral tumor. If they would have traveled by land, the drive would have taken around 17 hours to get there; however, they arrived in 1 hour, thanks to a helicopter, provided by the Ministry of Public Security of Costa Rica with no charge.

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