PhilHealth Region 7 joined the Thursday orientation of nurses and midwives who will be deployed to hospitals and other health facilities throughout the different local government units in Central Visayas.
The third batch of nurses and midwives for deployment in the province of Cebu under the Registered Nurses for Health Empowerment and Local Service of the Department of Health (DOH-RNHeals), PhilHealth prepared these 307 nurses and 87 midwives for PhilHealth-related concerns they are likely to encounter in their places of assignment.
The two-day pre-deployment orientation held at the DOH-7 office included a course on the National Health Insurance Program where PhilHealth social insurance officers had the opportunity to brief the nurses and midwives on the key points of the Program. PhilHealth highlighted information on its membership programs, benefits and the rules on benefit availment.
As part of the broad objectives of Universal Health Care (UHC), RN Heals nurses and midwives are expected to take note and report on patients’ PhilHealth membership status.
Ms. Annie Lucero, DOH-7 representative to Mandaue City, Consolacion and San Remigio, also said it is important that RNHeals nurses and midwives be knowledgeable about PhilHealth because the patients or their family members may have questions about their benefits.
Ms. Lucero mentioned that some of the common queries RNHeals representatives encountered are whether stepchildren can avail of PhilHealth benefits, and when a patient can avail of full benefits again if he or she is confined a second time for the same illness.
RNHeals nurses and midwives assigned in the province of Negros Oriental already had their two-day pre-deployment orientation earlier this March. A similar orientation will soon be held on April 2 to 3 in Bohol for those who will be assigned in that province.
In keeping with the goals of UHC or Kalusugan Pangkalahatan, DOH in partnership with the Department of Social Welfare and Development, organized the deployment of the third batch of RNHeals to ensure the delivery of essential health goods and social services to all Filipinos, especially the poor. (PR)
