CareOne Hospitals
Every year in Nigeria over One (1) Million Children under the age of 5 die (2 every minute). They die from Malaria, Respiratory Tract Infections, and Diarrhea Diseases. They die because the parents did not make the right decision to go to the appropriate hospital (Primary Delay), there is no effective mode of transport for the child to get to the appropriate Health Center (Secondary Delay), there is a failure of the child to get appropriate care at the referral point due to poor capacity, no funding, etc (tertiary delay).
CareOne Hospitals is a concept to set up 50 Second tier hospitals in the State in the first instance, 1,000 District Hospitals in the Local Governments, and 10,000 Health Centres in the Ward.
With the 10, 000 Ward health centers delivering care to about 10,000 Citizens/Ward, the System has the capacity to service 100m+ Nigerians with quality and affordable care and save the lives of about 500, 000 children/annum.
Leadership and Governance will be provided by the Board of Synapses Medical Networks led by Dr. Segun Ebitanmi. Dr. Segun Ebitanmi is a trained and experienced Medical Doctor of 25-yrs post-graduation, a trained, certified, and experienced IT Systems architect and administrator, who set and ran for over 10yrs, a National Medical Network for Nigeria (medinetNigeria), and a trained, certified, and experienced Medical Business Director. With a Senior Executive MBA from the Metropolitan School of Business and Management, he built Outreach Hospitals (as Chief Operating Officer) from annual revenues of ₦30m to over ₦600m and a valuation of ₦50m to ₦3b in 10rys. His lifetime ambition has been to use a three-dimensional view of Healthcare Systems Management (Medical/Digital/Business) to build a sustainable system that can service 100m Nigerians. Each State-Level Hospital will be managed by a Health Service Manager who will be a Doctor well trained in the Medical/Systems and Business Critical Success Factors of the business. Each Centre will be supported by a National Executive Panel of seasoned industry leaders.
Health Information System will be dynamic and versatile. A Realtime Online Electronic Medical Record System ensures a completely paperless operation and connects seamlessly by an API to HMOs for automatic, synergized, and real-time bill processing and payments. The system will be built with a framework for Artificial Intelligence using distributed connected intelligence. At the Ward Health Level, the Expert System and a Trained Nurse will make the diagnosis, prescribe and deliver simple care and refer to the superior center, based on system-administered criteria. The whole platform will run on an AWS-hosted cloud platform accessed by reliable internet access from Starlink. Real-Time Data can be mined and at maturity, the system can provide a reliable source of data for National Planning and Healthcare Systems Development.
Healthcare Infrastructure will be secured from 50 Medical Directors and their about 20-bed hospitals to CareOne Hospitals on a 5-Year Management Contract with a Refurbish-Operate-Transfer (ROT) Model. The Medical Directors will also be entitled to monthly rental payments in addition to the improvement in the value of their practices while maintaining 100% ownership. Most notably power will be fully from renewable sources (especially solar). These facilities will be connected by a network of on-demand ambulance services.
Logistics and Supply will be managed with an intelligent inventory management system, smart contracts with suppliers, a network delivering supplies connected to every center, and assures a healthy inventory, dynamically maintained by tracking reorder level and lead levels, and making orders and receiving supplies as designed
Range of Service will span Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (MNCAH), Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases, Orthopedics, Cardiology, School Health, Ophthalmology, Dental, Cancer, and most importantly preventive health. CareOne Hospitals (depending on the level of the hospital) will deliver General Out-Patient Care, In-Patient Care, Surgical care, and Intensive Care as needed. Mode of delivery will include telemedicine, off-site, and on-site consultations.
Human Resources for Health will be sourced from the local pool using innovative strategies. Dr. Segun Ebitanmi has built a political network of doctors. These doctors now number 7000+ and are present in every local government in Nigeria. The teaching hospitals will be a source of highly-skilled personnel while task shifting and artificial intelligence will be used to sustain the Ward Health Centre.
CareOne Hospitals will engage with a rich base of stakeholders and secure win-win stewardship agreements with them. These stakeholders will include (but not be limited to) Other Private Hospitals, Primary Health Centres, General Hospitals, Teaching Hospitals, PPMVs, Press, Trade Based Organizations, Gender Based Organizations, HMOs, Faith-Based Organizations, Ward Development Councils, Village Development Associations, Political Organizations, and most extensively the citizens. Engagements will be completely digital following a cycle of Prospect-Acquire-Secure-Service-Follow.
Prospects will be sourced using a network of CareOne Hospital Brokers (CHB). These CHBs will matchmake CareOne hospitals with qualified hospitals by using CareOne Hospital Evaluation Criteria. They will be entitled to brokerage fees of 1% of the annual turnover of the hospital (between N3m-N7.2m depending on the turnover of the hospital) payable at the end of each year of operations.