Integrated continuing care
Santa Casa provides 218 continuing care beds and has three units forming part of the National Network for Integrated Continuing Care.
Units
The integrated management of Santa Casa's Integrated Continuing Care Units (UCCI) allows us to ensure the provision of integrated continuing care across the whole institution, supporting autonomy and improving the living conditions of people in situations of dependency, through their rehabilitation, readaptation and family and social reintegration. In this way, we also ensure compliance with the commitments made under the National Network for Integrated Continuing Care (RNCCI), contributing to improved access to, and quality of, healthcare and social support.
Beds
The shortage of beds in this area has been a particular focus for the institution, which aims through these responses to help address this need in the city of Lisbon.
Santa Casa currently has a total of 218 in-patient beds, 196 of which are contracted with the RNCCI.
in Convalescence Unit
in Medium-Stay and Rehabilitation Unit
in Long-Stay and Maintenance Unit
It also has 22 beds that are not part of this Network:
in private regime
Integrated Continuing Care Unit
Maria José Nogueira Pinto
Inaugurated in 2012, this was Santa Casa's first Integrated Continuing Care Unit. It provides long-term healthcare across the different stages of disease progression, with the support of a multidisciplinary team. It offers three types of admission: medium-stay and rehabilitation; long-stay and maintenance; private regime.
It currently has a total of 83 beds, 61 of which are part of the National Network for Integrated Continuing Care:
in Long-Stay and Maintenance Unit
in Medium-Stay and Rehabilitation Unit
It also provides:
beds in Continuing Care under private regime
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Contacts
Rua Chesol, 25, Aldeia de Juso
2750-024 Cascais
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Integrated Continuing Care Unit
São Roque
Since July 2019, Parque de Saúde Pulido Valente has hosted a continuing care wing managed by Santa Casa, with a total of 44 in-patient beds, all contracted exclusively with the National Network for Integrated Continuing Care.
It currently has a total of 44 in-patient beds, all contracted exclusively with the National Network for Integrated Continuing Care:
in Long-Stay and Maintenance Unit
in Medium-Stay and Rehabilitation Unit
in Convalescence Unit
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Contacts
Parque de Saúde Púlido Valente – Alameda das Linhas de Torres
1750-147 Lisbon
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Integrated Continuing Care Unit
Rainha Dona Leonor
The Rainha Dona Leonor Integrated Continuing Care Unit – the former Hospital Militar da Estrela complex in Lisbon – has been in operation since September 2021.
It currently has a total of 91 in-patient beds, all contracted exclusively with the National Network for Integrated Continuing Care:
in Convalescence Unit
in Medium-Stay Unit
in Rehabilitation and Long-Stay and Maintenance Unit
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Contacts
Rua Santo António à Estrela
1350-291 Lisbon
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Related projects
Hold my Hand
The Hold My Hand project is the result of a consortium between institutions from four countries: Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (Portugal), Unessa (Belgium), Anziani e non solo (Italy) and Elderberry (Sweden). Funded under the Erasmus+ programme, Hold My Hand aims to foster and develop a culture that addresses end-of-life support with full awareness. The project started in November 2022 and runs for 24 months.
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By developing a culture that addresses end-of-life care with full awareness;
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By equipping people to deal with the end-of-life question, within the family and with healthcare professionals;
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By raising awareness of the need to ensure the transmission of information set out in a document with end-of-life choices and advance care planning, between the person and family members, residential facilities and hospitals, among others;
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By helping institutions to promote the autonomy of their residents;
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By supporting institutions in rethinking ageing and considering their residents’ wishes.
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Adult population/civil society;
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Family members/carers (formal and informal).
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Anziani e non solo is an Italian social cooperative created in 2004 that promotes lifelong learning and seeks to advance knowledge and strengthen communities. Its areas of focus/expertise are: adult education and vocational education in the health and social care sectors.
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Elderberry is a Swedish SME that delivers digital training for teachers and the development, writing, testing, editing and publication of digital training programmes.
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UNESSA is an association of more than 1,100 reception, support and care services for people in French-speaking Belgium, working across different areas: young people, older adults, children, hospitals, social inclusion and the social economy, disability, prevention and frontline care, and mental health.
Funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the position of the European Union or of the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the EACEA can be held responsible for those views.
Contacts
Direção de Cuidados Continuados Integrados | DICCI
Rua Santo António à Estrela, 9E
1350-291 Lisbon
+351 213 921 117 *
+351 213 921 108 *
geral.dicci@scml.pt
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