Outcomes of Tawanchai Cleft Center’s Financial Management among the Care of Patients with Cleft Lip and Cleft Palate annual 2017-2020

Abstract

Background and Objective: Tawanchai center provides care, treatment, surgery, rehabilitation, and develops a system of care, academic, research and assistance to patients/families with continuous financial supports. Therefore, we want to know the outcomes of financial management.

Method: A cross-sectional study reporting the outcomes of the center’s financial management was applied for collecting data from the annual reports of the center within 3 aspects i.e. its income-expenses, operations, and results as indicators of the center. After being collected for three months, the data were analyzed and presented in percentage. 

Results:  Most of its financial supports from foreign funding (49.78% out of 52.75%) was used for developing the system of care which effectively met 4 target values of the patient care outcomes. While 38.71% out of 74.81% of KKU’s research funding was spent for undertaking and publishing research, its research articles were published in international journals with SciMago quartile 1, 2 and QS/ISI within these following numbers; 1, 6 and 85 respectively. As a foundation, most of its income (77.60%) was from donation whose major expenses (82.33%, about 2,091,668.57 baht) was spent for supporting patients/families with average 554 patients/year.

Conclusion: Tawanchai Center provides multidisciplinary care, treatment, surgery and rehabilitation through its foundation’s assistance to patients and their families. The findings as the care outcomes successfully met the target values ​​of 4 indicators through its integrated financial management and collaboration resulting in effective patient care producing research and academic results with national and international publications.