Home Saint Jules

The rehabilitation unit

58

Beds

39

Patients

Home Saint Jules

The current service Ward E (Also known as Home Saint Jules) was officially launched in October 2023, by combining patients from the former Home Saint Jules with other patients chosen from various services, such as wards A, B, C, and D, as well as CARAES Butare, and the service was renamed TRANSITIONAL HOME CARE. This was established with the goal of rehabilitating patients with severe mental illnesses in order to improve self-care, increase socioeconomic empowerment and social reintegration, and achieve autonomy and general well-being for patients with chronic mental illnesses. This will be accomplished by a joint effort among a multidisciplinary team, patient families, local authorities, and immigration for unknown and foreign patients.

The service is subdivided into 2 parts, one for male patients with 31 beds and another for female patients with 29 beds, by the end of 2024 the service was occupied by 39 patients in total, 25 of them being males and 14 females, admitted by a multidisciplinary decision from different services of the hospital including its branches. As a rehabilitation service, most of the patients admitted are the homeless, mostly brought by the national police and local authorities, particularly foreigners, which explain their long stay as the discharge decision depends on the process of social reintegration with collaboration of local authorities, to identify the families and working with immigration for reintegration of foreign patients.


Head of Home Saint Jules

Sr. Marie Melanie MUKAGASANGWA

Head of Home St Jules

Sr. Marie Melanie MUKAGASANGWA is the Head of Home St Jules.