About the Director

Hidamari Home Care Clinic　Tadashi Wada M.D.

Greetings

In April, 2023, I established a small clinic, called Hidamari Home Care Clinic, in Kashiwa, City, Chiba, Japan, after the retirement from Irahara Primary Care Hospital. I started this clinic, together with excellent nurse Yuko Tanigawa. In October, 2023, excellent medical clerk Isako Yoshii joined our clinic. The clinic is located in the periphery of Kashiwa City, very close to the border of both Nagareyama City, Chiba, and Matsudo City, Chiba. Therefore, we are mainly taking care of patients who are citizens of those 3 cities.
It is our great pleasure and honor that we can take care of many patients who have had strong trust relationship with me or Ns Tanigawa for very long time. Some patients have been coming to my medical office for more than 30 years. Some patients have been getting care of Ns Tanigawa for more than 20 years.
We are engaged in outpatient practice as well as home-based medical practice. In the outpatient services, we are actively and tirelessly accepting those patients with fever or upper respiratory symptoms.
In home-based services, we are taking care of home-bound patients due to age-related frailty, dementia, terminally ill cancers, cerebro-vascular diseases, neuro-degenerative diseases, serious congenital disorders etc. In implementing support for those bed-ridden patients, we are often affiliated with various nursing, pharmaceutical, and care-giving facilities in the community, mostly those subsidized by public long-term care insurance. This kind of collaboration is the key for constructing successful support for individuals with serious social difficulties.
In this clinic, we are especially focusing on support for socially vulnerable patients. We welcome patients supported by public assistance system. Public assistance is public system of the central government to assist the poor persons based on the Article 25 of the Constitution of Japan. Those individuals supported by public assistance often have various social problems including criminal histories. They sometimes have mental retardation, psychiatric disorders, or developmental disorders in need of various assistance. We are proud to not only give them medical care, but various non-medical support to make their life much easier for them.