OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

What is the Division of Regional Outreach Office (Dental)?

Okayama University Hospital established “Regional Outreach Office (Dental)” to contribute to the improvement of medical quality and patient services by enhancing medical collaboration with regional medical and dental institutions and sharing the functions. The Regional Outreach Office (Dental) performs the duty.

Main Services of the Regional Outreach Office (Dental)

• Acceptance of referred patients
• Liaison and coordination with each clinical division in the hospital and provision of information
• Liaison and coordination with regional medical and dental institutions and provision of information
• Management of information for referred patients

Features of the Regional Outreach Office (Dental)

Regional dental outreach at this hospital is designed to give patients referred from regional medical and dental institutions easier access to specialized medical care.
We offer two modes of referral to the hospital: “Patient referral to diagnosis and treatment,” and “Patient referral to imaging diagnosis.” In addition, we ensure provision of the referral patients’ course of treatment at the hospital and give the resultant information from regional medical and dental institutions. Referred patients must be treated at the referred regional medical and dental institutions as soon as the treatment for the content of referral letters is completed, in principle.
However, this is not the case when regional medical and dental institutions wish to transfer patients to the hospital.