Hospital Visits
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Join the visits to some of the leading hospitals and health facilities in and near Lisbon on 24 October and 27 October. These are exclusive to Congress participants for an additional fee of EUR 45 per visit and must be booked and paid for in advance. Slots are very limited and attendance is on a first-come first-serve basis, so we suggest you register early. You can sign-up for any of them when you register for the Congress.
If you already registered for the Congress and want to sign-up for a hospital visit, please contact ihfcongress@events.mci-group.com.
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Transportation will be arranged and the assembly point within the Lisbon Congress Centre will be communicated in due course. All visits will take place on the afternoon of both the 24 and 27 October, exact timings will be communicated closer to the visit.
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Central Lisbon University Hospital Center (CHULCentral) has 500 years of history caring for patients and training health professionals.
At the origin of the center are the Civil Hospitals of Lisbon, HCL, and, before that, in the 15th century, the Hospital of Todos-Os-Santos. It is from these early times that the current identifying symbol of the center, “Omnia Santorum”, comes from.
CHULCentral is made up of six hospitals: Hospital São José (H.S.J.), Hospital Santo António dos Capuchos (H.S.A.C.), Hospital Santa Marta (H.S.Marta), Hospital Dona Estefânia (H.D.E.), Hospital Curry Cabral (H.C.C.) and Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital (M.A.C.).
Among other relevant services for Lisbon and for the country, CHULC operates three Emergency Departments: for adults, at HSJ, pediatric, at HDE and obstetric, at MAC.
More than 8000 professionals work at CHULC, where history is connected to technology and innovation. In these hospitals you find the most experienced robotic surgery teams and the most important transplantation units in the country working inside historical buildings filled with beautiful tiles. Also, you find our ECMO rescue team, that transport critically ill patients from all the country in order to treat them with this life-saving therapy.
Innovating in care through history is what you will find here.
Visit dates: 24 & 27 October
Visit times (provisional timings): 13:00 - 17:00 CET
Website: https://www.chlc.min-saude.pt/
The Champalimaud Clinical Centre (CCC) is a state-of-the-art medical, scientific and technological institution. In this centre, interdisciplinary clinical care is developed alongside applied research activities and advanced medical and technical education programmes. The CCC focuses on personalized medicine, centred on the patient, which allows for higher efficacy levels in disease control leading to longer survival and better quality of life.
Visit dates: 27 October
Visit times (provisional timings): 13:00 - 17:00 CET
Website: https://www.fchampalimaud.org/
CUF, the largest private healthcare operator in Portugal, with a network of 24 hospitals and clinics, and an example of clinical excellence and respect for the dignity and well-being of the patient, opened, in September 2020, the CUF Tejo Hospital in Lisbon. With an advanced technological profile, a differentiated clinical staff and a strong teaching and research component, the CUF Tejo Hospital was born to prevent, diagnose and treat the diseases of the future. The CUF Tejo Hospital combines the experience and competence of the CUF clinical teams with a permanent innovation in the way of caring for people.
To ensure a personalized, integrated and complete response, it relies on the dedication of leading professionals who work in a multidisciplinary way and supported by the latest medical equipment, allowing diagnosis and treatment with greater accuracy, comfort and safety.
It is the first Portuguese hospital fully organized in a patient-centred clinical model, to respond in a personalized and integrated manner to the diseases of the future. This clinical organization model by pathology, which promotes the best results for patients, is organized in Clinical Centres to respond to the pathologies of high incidence and with a tendency to grow in the population, namely in the Oncology, Neurosciences and Cardiovascular areas.
The CUF Tejo Hospital is the materialization of a differentiating project, designed for the diseases of the future, focused on patients, families and caregivers and the promoter of clinical research and university and post-graduate training in health. It integrates a Clinical Simulation Centre, created in partnership with NOVA Medical School, where it is possible to train with cutting-edge augmented reality technology and high fidelity models that mimic the real patient in various clinical situations. This commitment of CUF in differentiation and innovation in education allows to respond to the practical training needs of current and future health professionals, generate professional development and continuous scientific and personal growth.
Visit dates: 24 October
Visit times (provisional timings): 13:00 - 17:00 CET
Website: https://www.cuf.pt/hospitais-e-clinicas/hospital-cuf-tejo
Cascais Hospital is a Portuguese NHS Hospital managed with a public-private partnership (the only one in Portugal at this moment), by Ribera Salud. It serves a population of almost 300.000 inhabitants mainly from Cascais municipality. It has 277 beds, 35 out-patients offices, 6 ORs, 10 Delivery rooms, Adults ICU, Neonatal ICU and Pediatric Intermediate care, 3 ERs (General, G/O and Pediatric), Day Medical and Surgical Hospital. It is certified by the most important entities in terms of Health Accreditation (JCI), Quality and Environmental Certifications and it is an HIMSS stage 7 Hospital (being one of the most technological hospitals in Europe). Cascais Hospital received several National and International Awards being considered one of the best in Portugal. It received an honorable mention in IHF Awards 2022, acknowledging excellence or outstanding achievements in promoting and enhancing quality and patient safety.
The technological maturity combined with the excellence of care and its humanization led the Cascais Hospital to a daily culture of safety and continuous improvement, integrating and creating automatisms from the entry of the Emergency Room until clinical Fast Tracks or Closed-Loops (medicines, breast milk, blood, and clinical lab samples), avoiding thousands of near misses from the prescription until the administration.
Visit dates: 24 & 27 October
Visit times (provisional timings): 13:00 - 17:00 CET
Website: https://www.hospitaldecascais.pt/
The Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Lisbon Francisco Gentil, E.P.E. (IPO Lisboa) is a National Health Service public hospital with almost a century of experience in the study and treatment of cancer. Named after its founder, the surgeon Francisco Gentil, the Portuguese Institute was created by government decree on December 29, 1923. Since the beginning, it was connected to the Faculty of Medicine in a pioneer organizational model that concentrated the main purposes of the institution – research, teaching and assisting cancer patients – which only 60 years later would be enshrined by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).
IPO Lisboa always advocated highly specialized and high quality assistance skills that have earned it the certification in the treatment of various types of cancer by the Ministry of Health and accreditation by the Organization of European Cancer Institutes (OECI). IPO’s quality indicators match those of the World’s best reference centres.
With more than 2000 workers, IPO takes care of patients from three Health Regions in mainland - Lisbon and Tagus Valley, Alentejo and Algarve –, as well as the ones from the Autonomous Regions of Azores and Madeira. IPO also receives patients from Portuguese-speaking African countries.
Enjoying a great capital of social, medical and scientific prestige, it is an institution deeply cherished by patients and their families, who value the humanistic and patient-centred approach of providing health care.
Visit dates: 27 October
Visit times (provisional timings): 13:00 - 17:00 CET
Website: https://www.ipolisboa.min-saude.pt/
Hospital da Luz Lisboa invites you to visit the largest and best in class JCI accredited private hospital in Portugal. Do not miss this special opportunity to tour the hospital and meet key executives who support the hospital's position as a leading healthcare provider for highly specialized and complex medical care supported by multidisciplinary teams and advanced equipment which are, in some cases, the only equipment of its kind in Portugal.
This flagship hospital belongs to Luz Saúde’s Hospital da Luz network of 27 general hospitals and multispecialty clinics and is recognized as a reference for excellence and innovation through the integration of patient care, teaching and research. It is a general hospital with a 400-bed capacity and a strong focus in key areas such as cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, neurosciences, minimally invasive surgery, and gynecology and obstetrics. The hospital offers distinct adult and pediatric emergency departments, an innovation and training center with clinical simulation, digital clinical center, ICU, Intermediate care, enhanced technological infrastructure, modern inpatient wards, and outside gardens and comfortable and modern client leisure areas. It resides on the same campus as Casas de Cidade, a residence with 115 apartments for independent seniors with access to assisted living services.
Visit dates: 24 October
Visit times (provisional timings): 13:00 - 17:00 CET
The North Lisbon University Hospital Center (CHULN) was created in 2008 and resulted from the merge of Santa Maria Hospital and Pulido Valente Hospital. In 2020, 2021 and 2022 CHULN was recognized as top 5 portuguese institution in health rankings.The North Lisbon University Hospital Center has considerable abilities in human resources, applied technologies and in accumulated know-how along with the support it renders to the populations from its area of influence, and with the guarantee of a differentiated reference in multiple clinical areas, both regionally and nationwide.An exceptionally clear illustration of the promotion of quality of health care boosted by an academic medical environment is the recognition by the Ministry of Health of CHULN as a national reference center in 17 areas of medicine and by the European Union as a member of 10 European Reference Networks.
The process of integration in these networks is strongly dependent on the combined outcomes of medical education, clinical and basic research and the quality and volume of the medical care provided.
The population directly covered by CHULN is of approximately 340.000 people. Since 2002, there is record of approximately 3 million patients, 20 million appointments, 60 million exams in this Hospital Center.
Visit dates: 24 & 27 October
Visit times (provisional timings): 13:00 - 17:00 CET
Website: https://www.chln.min-saude.pt/north-lisbon-university-hospital-centre/