10th Anniversary Outstanding Project Award
Recognise all-round excellence CIIF funded-projects which achieve overall satisfactory results, these include the effective establishment of social capital network, development of innovative ideas and promotion of social capital messages, etc. All these are verified as effective, through objective evaluation, successful knowledge transfer for mainstreaming, as well as making sustainable development of the social capital outcomes possible.
| Organisation | : | South Kwai Chung Service Centre |
| Funding Period | : | June 2008 to May 2011 |
| Amount Granted | : | $1,400,000 |
| Targeted District | : | Kwai Tsing |
| Key Collaborators | : | Princess Margaret Hospital (Community Nursing Service), Kwai Chung Hospital (Community Nurses), PolyU-Henry G.. Leong Mobile Integrative Health Centre, PolyU’s School of Optometry, Lai King Mutual Aid Committee, Housing Authority, Housing Department |
| Project Objectives | : | Promote "Medical-Welfare-Community" collaboration model, establish community health care support network, provide "Ageing in Place" services for the low-income elderly, enhance residents’ and families’ health in terms of physical, mental and spiritual wellness, and strengthen the community’s resilience in the face of adversity. |
Critical Success Factor
The project has successfully connected more than 35 multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral collaborators, including medical organisations, welfare agencies and local groups, and forged the innovative medical-welfare-community partnership model to provide community care services to elderly residents. It has helped transform the Lai King district into a safe and healthy community. Under the strategy of community care, the project has established a Community Clinic to provide elderly residents with health assessment services, medial care knowledge and medicine consultation. The project has not only reduced the medical cost effectively, but also demonstrated the valuable experience in implementing the policies of primary medical care and ageing in place. The success of the "one estate one nurse" model has driven the project agency to apply the model to five projects in total covering six estates, namely Cheung Tsing, Lai King, Kwai Fong, Kwai Chung, Cheung On and Cho Yiu, in Kwai Tsing. The medical-welfare-community model has also been widely promoted by the agency through various forums and seminars, and books published on its own.
