Fundación Espriu

The organisations that make up the Espriu Foundation constitute one of the largest networks of healthcare cooperatives in the world

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Assistència Sanitària campaign

Assistència Sanitària

Assistència Sanitària launches a campaign that claims the essence of its values

The insurer presented in February its new communication campaign with an approach that surprises for its originality and moves away from the usual formulas of the sector. Faced with promotions centered on discounts or the enumeration of coverage, the organization puts the focus on its values and its uniqueness as a model born from healthcare cooperativism and formed by doctors.
International Day of Cooperatives

International Year of Cooperatives

The UN establishes the International Year of Cooperatives every ten years

With this move, cooperativism achieves unparalleled recognition within the international economic context
ASISA targets 2025

ASISA

ASISA Group Met Its Growth Targets in 2025: A Decisive Boost to Insurance and Healthcare Activity

The ASISA Group held its annual Consultative Board meeting, where it presented its results for the 2025 financial year, a year marked by the fulfillment of its strategic objectives and a notable boost across all its business areas. During the meeting, the company confirmed the solidity of its cooperative model, achieving a total premium volume of 1,890.52 million euros in the Iberian Peninsula. This 21.1% increase compared to the previous year was complemented by a 7.3% growth in its healthcare turnover, which reached 725.5 million euros, thus consolidating the entity's best historical record to date.
Carlos Zarco at Vitoria

Biomedical engineering

I+Med, a cooperative of scientists at the service of health

Last February 20th, Carlos Zarco, general director of the Espriu Foundation, made an institutional visit to the facilities of i+Med, the biomedical engineering cooperative located in the Vitoria-Gasteiz Campus of the Euskadi Technology Park.

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The Espriu Foundation, cooperation and self-governance since 1989

The Espriu Foundation brings together the Spanish institutions which implement the co-operative healthcare model created by Dr Josep Espriu. The main objective of the Espriu Foundation is to oversee the development, promotion and defence of the cooperative healthcare model, centralising the efforts and commitment of Grup Assistència and Grupo Asisa with the dissemination and promotion of the co-operative model as a tool for improving healthcare systems.

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La Fundación Espriu

/Our values

1

Not-for-profit

Surplus balances are reinvested for the benefit of members, users, improving the quality of care and technological innovation, thus ensuring sustainability.

2

Direct involvement in management

All stakeholders are involved in management, engaging the full range of participants in the care process in a spirit of solidarity.

3

Open organizations

The Foundation is made up of organisations that are private but also open and very willing to collaborate with the public healthcare system.

4

Social commitment

All the entities that participate in the Foundation are committed to society and maintain a real commitment to the people and the environment that surrounds them.

Cooperativismo sanitario

The Institutions

The Espriu Foundation brings together the leading institutions of healthcare cooperativism in Spain: SCIAS, Autogestió Sanitària, ASISA and Lavinia.

Together, they form a network that provides high-quality medical care based on collaboration, solidarity and democratic management, placing the patient at the centre.

With 3.2 million insured people, 19 hospitals and 40 own medical centres, 181,303 cooperative members and 7,500 employees, the Foundation represents an efficient, human and socially committed healthcare model.

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Autogestió Sanitaria Lavinia SCIAS asisa
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COMPARTIR magazine is a print and digital publication which reflects current medical, social economy and health co-operative issues brought to you by the professionals who participate in the co-operatives of the Espriu Foundation. 
COMPARTIR is published in three languages (Spanish, Catalan and English) and combines health and wellbeing features, promoting a healthy lifestyle and offering recommendations for cultural and leisure activities. Quality information backed by health professionals and experts who work with Assistència Sanitària and Asisa.

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