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About the Organisation
This section gives a brief idea about the organisation. Please check the Pics & Docs tab for latest documents.
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To relieve the suffering of patients and their families by the comprehensive assessment and treatment of physical, psychosocial, and spiritual symptoms experienced by patients.
To reach those in the remotest of areas needing Palliative Care through networking and creating awareness thereby increasing referrals.
To empower the Patient and his family by helping them to choose to die in their home and allow them to keep some sense of control over their lives, thus providing a more comfortable setting in which to die, and saving on hospital costs.
To offer a wide range of Complementary Therapies like Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Acupressure, etc. as an additional option to conventional medicines to ease the effect of chronic illness.
To prepare the family to face the impending loss of their loved one and assist them through their grief, guilt or regret, during the time of bereavement.
To be an oasis of support for the ailing and the needy.
To ease emotional pain, wipe tears and restore the resolve to live, by finding new meaning and purpose.
To recruit more people and inspire them to lead by example, to make a difference in people’s lives, through disasters, calamities and personal loss, and thereby build a compassionate, caring, supportive community.
Capabilities:
1. The vision and focused leadership of DEAN Foundation has led to medical teams reaching out consistently to those with Hospice and Palliative Care needs in the community with quality end-of-life care, through the trajectory of Life-limiting illness, through economic ups and downs, pandemics, natural calamities, etc. Needs of various stakeholders are proactively addressed to integrate competencies and reconfigure processes to adapt to rapidly changing environments.
2. This empowerment is not only by means of medical treatment and psychosocial support but also through the supply of hospital cots, commodes, provisions, household items like mattresses, stoves, cooking utensils, buckets, etc. We were able to even build/renovate some of the huts devastated by the Chennai floods!
3. DEAN Foundation has been working from two Centres allocated by the Tamil Nadu Govt., taking care of their patient load requiring Palliative Care Service, emphasising the trust and confidence placed by the Govt. upon DEAN Foundation:
• the Government Children's Hospital, Egmore and
• the upgraded Primary Health Centre in Thiruppukuzhy, Kancheepuram District; since 2010
DEAN Foundation has also taken up the added responsibility of providing Palliative Care services in other Govt. Institutions namely:
• the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, attached to the Children's Hospital, Egmore,
• the Arignar Anna Memorial Cancer Centre in Karapettai, Kancheepuram and
• the Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital, Omandurar
Working with the Government in the above-mentioned locations ensures a multiplier effect in reaching out to many needy and underprivileged patients in the most economic way possible.
4. Service delivery through Outpatient clinics and Home Care visits ensuring quality care, pain and symptom management, enables DEAN Foundation to support patients and their families along a continuum; from start of Palliative Care to their life’s end and bereavement thereafter for family members.
Challenges:
1. Maintaining our existing level of service and existing staff levels, controlling growth within resources and financial abilities during the pandemic and thereafter
2. Increasing outreach to the entire community with all of its diversity in the locations we serve
3. Securing additional funding to maintain a surplus budget each year
4. Establishing a strong donor base and setting fundraising capacity in place that will continue to generate funds needed to support operations
5. Securing a property of our own to carry out our activities without the threat of being vacated from the current rental premises
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Key Indicators:
1. Number of patients Identified
2. Number of Home Care visits made
3. Number of patients treated
4. Number of follow up visits, telephone calls, letters, emails, etc.
5. Referrals for aids and equipment for Patient Care
Monitoring Key Indicators is through:
• Feedback Form from the patient and family, community, volunteers, etc
• Letters from families after their loved ones have died
Monitoring & Evaluation Mechanisms:
1. Case sheets where Field visits are recorded and Follow-up sheets used for monitoring Clinical activities
2. Telephone Calls made to every patient who had consulted DEAN, the previous day, to verify the efficacy of treatment given
3. After Home Visits, patients/caregivers are called over the telephone by designated staff from the DEAN Foundation office for verification purposes and also to monitor patient needs
2019-20
1. New patients registered: 1,472
2. Patients treated: 2,610
3. Home Care Visits: 8,015
4. Outpatient Visits: 6,448
5. Inpatient Days – Paediatric: 1,220
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Impact on Beneficiaries:
1. Comprehensive & quality Palliative Care Services made available to patients at home where the patient and family are in control (Alleviation of pain and suffering of patients with life-limiting illnesses).
2. Patients with chronic illness and complex health care needs live longer with better end-of-life quality.
3. Families helped with crucial decisions about traditional healers and stigma - Earlier involvement help the family better navigate both the health care system and the illness journey and help them make important decisions with accurate information and support.
4. Families saved money due to Home visits, evaluated by reduced hospital admissions/ICU visits and unnecessary tests & medical interventions
5. Reduction of anxiety, confusion and helplessness due to patient listening & reassurance of uninterrupted support provided by the DEAN Foundation medical teams
6. Functioning from within the existing Government Health care system has helped to create a sustainable, scalable, replicable model to offer Palliative care services, by sharing existing resources
Impact on various stakeholders:
1. Community groups have increased awareness/knowledge of the Speciality
2. Beneficiaries have access to Medical care outside a Clinic or Hospital
Impact of the project – Quantitative:
1. Caseload of an average of 900 patients being treated at any given point of time at our 4 Centres
2. Average of 5 visits per day, per team, Monday to Friday (time taken depends on Medical Procedures carried out at each consultation)
3. Awareness Camps minimum 2 per year in each of our 4 Centres as well as regular visits to Private Clinics, Hospitals and Doctors
4. A number of Awareness Programmes were conducted. DEAN stall during Saarang Cultural Festival conducted by IIT, Chennai, Sensitisation of PG Students, Psychology, at the Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM) were some of the highlights.
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Imagine a lady doctor tending to the emergency needs of patients even in the dead of the night, in Tirupati, 75 years ago! Dr. Adaline Micah, grandmother of Mrs. Deepa Muthiaya, Founder & Chairman of DEAN Foundation, is the inspiration behind DEAN Foundation’s medical teams taking medical care to the doorsteps of poor patients.
Mrs. Deepa Muthaiya worked in various fields but realized that she worked best with people. The deep urge in Deepa, to reach out and touch lives was further fueled upon reading Sogyal Rinpoche’s question, "Don't most people die unprepared for death, as they have lived, unprepared for life?”, in The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. It was soon after that, when a doctor, returned from U.K. and talked about Palliative Medicine, that the way to help the dying revealed itself and Deepa was inspired to begin a Hospice. Her work on beginning Dean Foundation was mentioned in the Foreword of the latest edition of Sogyal Rinpoche’s book.
Mrs. Deepa Muthaiya envisioned DEAN Foundation (an acronym for To Dignify and Empower the Ailing and the Needy) to be an oasis for the very sick and suffering who need medical advice, who need to be understood, cared for, listened to and be treated as special. DEAN was founded on 9 March 1998 as a service to those in the community with Palliative Care needs through quality medical treatment and holistic care.
Twenty three years of DEAN Foundation’s service has been targeted on the patient – whether a child, adult or a senior citizen – their health in body, mind and spirit being the primary focus, and family ! Treatment is delivered at the patients' doorstep, free of charge, with families trained to provide care.
With many achievements to her credit in the field of Palliative Care, Mrs. Deepa Muthaiya’s passion and life work can be summed up in the line, “If life begins with an act of love why shouldn’t it end that way?”
Strategic Priority #1: Provide excellence in compassionate Hospice & Palliative care through our existing projects and services
Strategic Priority #2: Increase awareness of Hospice & Palliative Care, and the models of Care available in that vicinity.
Strategic Priority #3: Improve awareness of the meaning of Hospice & Palliative Care in the trajectory of a chronic illness, and the need for early referrals in view of achieving better symptom management in a shorter time.
Strategic Priority #4: Achieve financial stability and sustainability
To create a robust environment that facilitates, nurtures and assists those with core competencies, in the provision of Hospice and Palliative Care services; to address unique challenges and opportunities; and to develop and sustain outstanding research and academic activity, political engagement and service delivery.
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