The Catalan Society for Healthcare management awards 11 organisations for their projects in clinical and organisational management

A total of 11 organisations, centres, hospitals and entities have been recognised in the 2nd Awards for Excellence in Healthcare Projects in Catalonia, organised by the Catalan Society for Healthcare Management (SCGS). This year, 103 submissions were presented.

The aim of these awards, created in collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Healthcare Technology Companies in Catalonia, is to promote the sharing of real, already implemented experiences that are helping drive effectiveness, efficiency, quality and innovation in the management of healthcare organisations and clinical services.

The awards were presented on Friday, 28 November, during the conference “The SISCAT: evolution or transformation? Challenges and opportunities for the healthcare system”, organised by the SCGS with the support of Fenin Catalunya, the Catalan Union of Hospitals, the Health and Social Care Consortium of Catalonia, the Catalan Association of Health Entities (ACES) and the Catalan Health Institute (ICS).

Below are the award winners and finalists in the categories of Excellence in Innovative Clinical Management and Excellence in Organisational Management. Prize winners received 5,000€.

Award for Excellence in Innovative Clinical Management

• Integrated care model for people with chronic and complex wounds in Primary Care Metropolitan South and Penedès.
  Complex Wounds Unit of Primary Care Metropolitan South and Penedès; Baix Llobregat Primary and Community Care Management; Delta Primary and Community Care Management; Penedès Primary and Community Care Management. Catalan Health Institute (ICS).

Award for Excellence in Organisational Management

• Aspace Neurona Care: A strategic platform for the social, healthcare and educational integration of people with complex neurodevelopmental disorders, cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities, improving equity, safety and continuity of care.
  Fundació Aspace Catalunya

Finalists – Innovative Clinical Management

• Digital Network for Social and Healthcare Home Support. Sardenya Primary Care Team.
• GEA – New digital blood management model: transforming the donation-to-transfusion process (“vein to vein”). Blood and Tissue Bank.
• Value-based management model for a paediatric type 1 diabetes programme. Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital, Barcelona.
• Comprehensive management of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) for the reference population of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (ACS Programme). Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.
• From frailty, assessed with the 3D/3D+ tool, to clinical decision-making: a care model to transform services. Althaia Foundation · University Care Network of Manresa.

Finalists – Organisational Management

• Intermediate Care Hospital-at-Home (HAD-AI): an integrated, safe, person-centred model to improve care continuity in Catalonia. Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili.
• From insufficient scale to clinical excellence in the pathology service of Mataró University Hospital: a scalable networked management model. Dibi Biomedical Diagnostic Network, Mataró Hospital and Hospital del Mar.
• Integrated management of hospital care and alternatives to hospitalisation in Osona and Lluçanès. Vic University Hospital; Hospital de la Santa Creu de Vic; Sant Jaume de Manlleu Hospital.
• Horizontal integration of acute and intermediate care medical and surgical services between two centres in different healthcare regions. Vic Hospital Consortium and the Campdevànol Hospital Foundation.