Assistive Equipment Center, Ruskeasuo unit
Keywords:In the Ruskeasuo unit of the Assistive Equipment Center, we provide demanding special assistive equipment services for the entire HUS specialised medical care services. In Assistive Device Center, we handle the payment commitments for personal aids made by Central Uusimaa Health and Social Services (Keusote).
Contact Information
In the Ruskeasuo unit of the Assistive Equipment Center, we provide demanding special assistive equipment services for the entire HUS specialised medical care services. We lend e-mobility aids for adults, children’s assistive equipment for long-term loans, environmental control units, and demanding communication aids. To use our services, you will need a referral.
Return of assistive devices
Assistive devices can be returned on weekdays Mon–Thu 8 a.m.–4 p.m. and Fri 8 a.m.–2 p.m. The assistive equipment have a barcode which the personnel use to return the assistive equipment.
Parking
If you come to the appointment by car, parking spaces are available on the street or in the Invalidiliitto building’s parking garage. When you enter the parking garage, please use the intercom to contact the lobby so they can open the garage door for you. Please park your car on the second floor of the garage. There is an elevator you can take to reach the first floor lobby.
Information on payment commitments for Keusote customers
At the beginning of 2022, the Central Uusimaa Joint Municipal Authority’s (Keusote) payment commitment processing will be transferred to the Assistive Equipment Center. These include, for example, treatment socks, breast prostheses, individual support aids, support insoles, customized footwear, wigs, and glasses that are acquired with a payment commitment. Below you will find information about payment commitments.
You can contact Keusote’s payment commitments unit by phone or email. For the majority of assistive equipment, you need a recommendation from a healthcare professional on the need for an assistive device.
If you have been using compression socks and you have a physician’s recommendation for them, you can contact Keusote’s payment commitments unit directly. If you have not previously had compression socks in use, you will need a physician’s recommendation for them.
If you have had breast cancer, you do not need a new recommendation for these aids. You can contact Keusote’s payment commitments unit directly for renewing your assistive equipment.
For support insoles and footwear, you need a recommendation from a healthcare professional. If you already have such a recommendation, you can contact Keusote’s payment commitments unit directly.
A child under the age of 8 may be granted glasses on the basis of a recommendation from an ophthalmologist. As a rule, ophthalmologists mail the recommendations directly to Keusote’s payment commitments unit.
We use HUS framework agreements, so contract suppliers are used for tendered products. Information about the contract supplier is provided with the payment commitment.
If the assistive equipment has been put out to tender, you cannot switch service providers.
Maisa Portal (opens in new window, links to another website)
You can use our online services by signing in to the Maisa Portal. Once your treatment with us begins, you will receive information on the services you can access in Maisa. These include appointment booking and preliminary information forms, for example.
Patient guide
On the “Patient guide” page, you will find answers to frequently asked questions about what happens before treatment, during treatment, and after treatment.