2024-07-24 05:12:57
Minister of Health Arūnas Dulkys claims that only one candidate applied for the head of LSMU Kaunas Hospital. According to him, this is a clear signal to universities preparing doctors that efforts should be made not only in educating specialists, but also leaders, increasing attention to health management.
“Kaunas Hospital is one of the most important hospitals in the region – it is surprising that there was so little ambition in both the medical and academic community to try themselves at the helm of one of the largest secondary level medical institutions.
It is a clear signal that it is necessary to develop leadership and competition, to strengthen the quality of the teaching of health management disciplines even during the study years, because stagnant water does not benefit anyone. Despite the extremely small number of candidates, I believe that the new manager has the appropriate competences to continue the hospital’s consolidation work and ensure regional cooperation, thus demonstrating the hospital’s leadership in the entire region,” says A. Dulkys.
Diana Žaliaduonytė – LSMU professor, doctor of biomedical sciences, long-term cardiologist at LSMU hospital Kaunas clinics. The professor has accumulated over 10 years of managerial work experience – managing the Departments of Cardiac Diagnostics, Heart Failure and Defects of the Cardiology Clinic of the Hospital of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, later holding the position of General Director of the Kaunas Republican Hospital. From 2020 D. Žaliaduonytė served as the medical director of LSMU Kaunas Hospital.
With a higher education in medicine and management and a doctorate degree, D. Žaliaduonytė is actively engaged in scientific activities – she has published more than 100 scientific publications, is a co-author of 3 textbooks, also participates in biomedical projects, Lithuanian and international scientific projects, supervises the scientific works of students and doctoral students.
According to D. Žaliaduonytė, LSMU Kaunas hospital is the second largest hospital in the Kaunas region, as of 2020. participating in the reorganization and still having many challenges regarding increasing the efficiency of its activities, forming an identity, and strengthening the organizational culture.
“I would like to create a modern hospital where the patient could receive quality consultations or treatment, where medical activities would be structured, health policy goals would be implemented, medical innovations would be introduced and the prestige of LSMU Kaunas Hospital would be formed. It is also important to strengthen the hospital’s base of studies and clinical practices, to expand residency bases, to improve the quality of studies, by educating managers and mentors of clinical practices, to develop scientific research”, says D. Žaliaduonytė.
She also emphasizes that the LSMU Kaunas hospital has many departments, separate infrastructural units, therefore one of the goals is to review their efficiency: determine the need for the services provided, reorganize duplicative and “shadowing” activities, optimize patient hospitalization, review the possibilities of moving part of the services to day stationary.
“Employees’ well-being and desire to work at LSMU Kaunas Hospital are very important, so great attention will be paid to them, because only with motivated, competent employees, LSMU Kaunas Hospital can achieve its goals,” says the newly appointed head of Kaunas Hospital.
D. Žaliaduonytė has been appointed as the head of Kaunas Hospital for a 5-year term.
LSMU Kaunas hospital is the second largest multi-profile personal health care institution in the Kaunas region in terms of activity volume, it provides level II and III inpatient and outpatient personal health care services, employs more than 3350 employees.
2024-07-24 05:12:57