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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New Zeland

Cooperatives of the world

The New Zealand river that achieved human rights thanks to Māori cooperativism

There is an ancestral maxim that the iwi tribes of the Whanganui River basin in New Zealand have repeated for generations: “Ko au te Awa, ko te Awa ko au” (I am the river and the river is me). To Western thinking, this sentence might sound like a beautiful poetic metaphor. However, for the local indigenous community, it describes a legal, spiritual, and daily reality: the health of the people and that of the water form the same inseparable organism.
AI Hospital Universitario Moncloa

ASISA

HLA Universitario Moncloa and Universidad Europea develop an AI-powered smart ICU

HLA Universitario Moncloa Hospital (Madrid), in collaboration with Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM), is launching an innovative project focused on artificial intelligence applied to intensive care medicine. The initiative aims to transform the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) into a hyper-connected, safe, and predictive environment, allowing healthcare professionals to anticipate potential adverse events in critical patients.

Gudbrod

History of cooperatives

The 1930s German Cooperative That Built a Futuristic Car Funded by Hours of Labor

A group of workers and engineers joined forces to build a front-wheel-drive car with aluminum bodywork that local residents could pay off by tightening bolts on the factory floor.
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Assistència Sanitària

FC Barcelona and Assistència Sanitària renew strategic alliance until 2031

FC Barcelona and Assistència Sanitària have reached an agreement to renew their strategic sponsorship for the next five seasons, extending their partnership until June 2031. With this agreement, both entities reaffirm a collaboration model that began in 2005 and will continue past the quarter-century mark of shared history.

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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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