Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo
Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo
Local Health Unit of Lower Alentejo, EPE
The Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo, EPE is a public business entity integrated into the National Health Service, created by Decree-law No. 183/2008, of September 4, which arose from a concern for the added value that effective care provision for citizens and efficient coordination between primary health care and specialized health care can bring.
The ULSBA, EPE aims to provide primary, specialized, and continuous health care to the population, specifically to beneficiaries of health subsystems or external entities that contract health care services with it, and to all citizens in general. It also ensures public health activities and the necessary means for the exercise of health authority competencies within its geographic area of coverage.
The Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo, EPE is a public business entity integrated into the National Health Service, created by Decree-law No. 183/2008, of September 4, which arose from a concern for the added value that effective care provision for citizens and efficient coordination between primary health care and specialized health care can bring.
The ULSBA, EPE aims to provide primary, specialized, and continuous health care to the population, specifically to beneficiaries of health subsystems or external entities that contract health care services with it, and to all citizens in general. It also ensures public health activities and the necessary means for the exercise of health authority competencies within its geographic area of coverage.
MISSION, VISION, AND VALUES
The Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo, EPE seeks to be recognized for clinical excellence, ensuring equity and effective integration of various levels of care, positioning itself as a reference institution with a commitment to quality, efficiency, and efficacy, both technical and social.
The mission of ULSBA is to provide integrated care with quality and in a timely manner, at socially sustainable costs, within a framework of efficiency and efficacy, in close coordination with other health services and social institutions in the community.
Alongside care activities, training, education, and research functions are developed, deemed necessary for the technical-professional development of ULSBA workers and collaborators.
In carrying out its activities, ULSBA and its collaborators adopt a user/patient-centered attitude, with profound respect for human life's dignity, focusing on the prevention and promotion of individual and community health, accessibility, and equity in care provision, as well as achieving health gains, aiming for the progressive improvement of all health indicators for the population of Baixo Alentejo.
ULSBA operates in three levels of care provision:
Primary Health Care | Grouping of Health Centers in Baixo Alentejo, comprising the functional units of the Health Centers of Aljustrel, Almodôvar, Alvito, Barrancos, Beja, Castro Verde, Cuba, Ferreira do Alentejo, Mértola, Moura, Ourique, Serpa, and Vidigueira, as well as the Shared Assistance Resources Unit (URAP), Public Health Unit (USP), Pneumological Diagnosis Center (CDP) and the Diagnostic Counseling Center (CAD).
Hospital Health Care | José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital, Beja
Palliative Care | Community Palliative Care Support Team Beja+ (supporting all municipalities except Moura, Barrancos, and Mértola), Community Palliative Care Support Team of Moura and Barrancos, and Community Palliative Care Support Team of Mértola