Icheon City and Gyeonggi Province Social Services Institute Sign Care Services Cooperation Agreement

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Eom In-yong] Icheon City announced on the 4th that it has signed a cooperation agreement on customized, integrated care services with the Gyeonggi Province Social Services Institute.

The agreement signed today is aimed at establishing an integrated care system tailored to regional circumstances and was pursued as part of collaborative efforts to advance Icheon City's customized integrated care delivery system.

Under the agreement, following the implementation of the 'Act on Integrated Support for Regional Care including Medical and Long-term Care Services,' the effectiveness of region-centered integrated care policies is expected to increase.

Both organizations plan to jointly review all aspects of Icheon City's integrated care operations and identify improvement tasks that reflect regional characteristics.

Additionally, they plan to strengthen the coordination of service resource surveys and develop an integrated care operations manual that field practitioners can utilize.

An Hye-young, director of the Gyeonggi Province Social Services Institute, said, "I am pleased that through cooperation with Icheon City, we will be able to develop an integrated care model that reflects regional characteristics together," and added, "As a specialized institution, the Gyeonggi Province Social Services Institute will actively support Icheon City's integrated care delivery system to be stably established through field-oriented consulting and operational support."

Mayor Sung Soo-seok of Icheon City said, "Integrated care is an important task that must be developed not only by administrative agencies but also by the community," and added, "Based on cooperation with the Gyeonggi Province Social Services Institute, we will further strengthen a region-centered integrated care system so that citizens can continue to lead healthy and safe lives in the places where they lived."