We at the Hestia Chair seek to promote research focused on improving the provision of social healthcare and mental health services and the care of complex chronic patients with significant social needs. To do so, we have organised the 2nd call for Hestia Research Grants. This call includes 4 grants, each of which is worth…
The Hestia Chair organises the first Expert Meeting on Integrated Health and Social Care This is the first time that the UIC Barcelona chair, sponsored by the Hestia Foundation, has gathered this many professionals to discuss society’s biggest health concerns On Wednesday 7 November, representatives from five Autonomous Communities met at UIC Barcelona to…
The Auditorium on the Sant Cugat Health Campus played host to the ceremony of the 2018 Hestia Awards for Excellence in Social Healthcare and Mental Health Research, organised by the Hestia Chair in Integrated Health and Social Care. Altogether, the first edition recorded 68 submitted projects from various autonomous communities, such as Aragon, Andalusia,…
Through these endowments, the Hestia Chair in Integrated Health and Social Care seeks to support research projects led by professionals, teams and institutions that care for vulnerable people with high health and social care needs. The event, held in the Auditorium on the Sant Cugat Health Campus, was presided by Dr Xavier Corbella, director of…
On the 15th November 2017, the Scientific committee for the 1st call for Hestia Research Grants made up of Dr Xavier Corbella and Dr Miquel Fernandez from the Hestia Chair and Dr Angels Canas and Dr Susana Subira from the Fundació Hestia. Of the 38 projects presented, the committee selected 12 projects for funding from…
2 June 2017 On 2 June 2017, Dr Corbella took part in the 1st meeting of the Working Group on Professional Issues and Quality of Care of the European Federation of Internal Medicine, which is directed by Professor Luis Campos, president of the Portuguese Society of Internal Medicine. Dr Corbella took part as director of…
31 May – 1 June 2017- Madrid On 31 May and 1 June of this year, Dr Xavier Corbella led the 14th Workshop in Healthcare Management for Healthcare Executives titled “Integrated Care: Community Cardiac Failure, a Success Story”. Over 40 healthcare executives from all over Spain took part in an event that featured renowned speakers…
May 2017 – Dublin (Ireland) During the congress, Dr Xavier Corbella participated as director of the Hestia Chair in an international workshop entitled “How to design and implement integrated care: Lessons from early adopters in Europe”. Over 1,200 people from 54 countries attended the congress and close to 3,500 followed the congress online via the…
June 2016 Fundación Hestia, a non-profit organisation linked to the Hestia Alliance group, signed a collaboration agreement with the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya to promote teaching, research and knowledge transfer and changes in the organisational model and, by doing so, promote more comprehensive and supportive care for the ever growing number of people with prolonged…