Ribera acquires the largest private healthcare group in Murcia and consolidates its presence in the region

by S0p0rt3 | Nov 17, 2022 | Ribera | 0 comments

• The Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad group includes the hospitals of Cartagena and Caravaca, and a network of more than 30 medical centres and six specialised units.
• Elisa Tarazona, CEO of the Ribera Group, assures that the objective is to continue growing in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe.

The Ribera healthcare group has formalised the acquisition of Grupo Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad, the largest private healthcare operator in Murcia. This operation is an example of Ribera’s commitment to this region, where it already manages Ribera Hospital de Molina, in Molina de Segura, which covers a catchment area of 140,000 citizens. In Alicante, Ribera also manages the Hospital Universitario del Vinalopó in Elche and the Hospital de Denia, as well as its Primary Care networks.

Founded in 1981 and with a staff of more than 560 professionals, the Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad group has the Cartagena Hospital, built in 2018, and the Caravaca Hospital, refurbished last year, as well as a network of more than 30 medical centres and six specialised units. The Centro Médico Virgen de la Caridad group is the leader in private healthcare provision in the Region of Murcia in terms of number of centres, as well as being present in all the most populated towns in this autonomous community.

“We are making progress in the consolidation of our responsible health project”.

For Elisa Tarazona, CEO of the Ribera Group, “with this operation we are moving forward in the consolidation of our responsible health project in the Iberian peninsula and in Europe, helping the sustainability of health systems, always committed to excellence, innovation and research, and learning and collaborating with the great professionals we have, and who are the key to the success of our project”.

In addition, as Tarazona explained, “with these centres, we provide assistance to the citizens of Murcia, but also to the residents of the nearby Torrevieja Health Department in everything they may need, as well as to those of the rest of the province of Alicante”.

The consulting firms Deloitte and KPMG have been the advisors of this operation.

About the Ribera Group

Ribera is a business group that has been a provider of public and private healthcare services since 1997, managing hospital projects and specialised care services in Spain, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. It has a University School of Nursing, a purchasing centre, a laboratory division, a technology company and a foundation dedicated to research, training and health promotion. Ribera is a responsible health company, working to improve the health and well-being of citizens. Its social commitment is evident through multiple initiatives that, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda, contribute value to current and future society and contribute to the sustainability of healthcare systems.

The Ribera Group’s programme for pets accompanying patients, awarded the Corresponsables prize

by S0p0rt3 | Nov 16, 2022 | Ribera | 0 comments

• The hospitals of the healthcare group are progressively implementing this initiative, which is already a success at the Vinalopó Hospital, and which establishes a protocol and facilitates pet visits for chronic or long-stay patients.
• Two other Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, the “en blanco” campaign to raise awareness of the importance of talking about suicide and the original video and song to teach CPR to children, have been shortlisted as finalists.

The programme created and implemented by the Ribera healthcare group in several of its hospitals for the accompaniment of pets for chronic and long-stay patients has won the 13th Corresponsables award in the category of Responsible Communication and “Best Stakeholder Dialogue Process”. In addition, two other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives of the healthcare group, and their corresponding communication, were finalists in this year’s call for the best advertisement in the written press and the best corporate or audiovisual video: the group’s “en blanco” campaign to raise awareness of the importance of talking about suicide, and the video and original song to teach Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) to children.

The awards gala was held yesterday in the auditorium of the IESE Business School in Barcelona, and Ribera Health Group was represented by two members of the Communications Department, Edelweiss Villa, head of Communications at the Vinalopó University Hospital and Ribera Hospital de Molina, and the group’s brand manager, Mónica Jaén. Both highlighted the more than 200 CSR and humanisation actions carried out annually by the group in its hospitals, primary care centres and clinics, thanks to the collaboration of its more than 7,000 professionals.

In 2018, the Ribera healthcare group launched the pet companion programme for long-stay and chronic inpatients at two of its hospitals, as part of the plan to humanise care and improve the patient experience. At the time, it was the first work in this field in the Valencian Community and one of the first in Spain.

Corresponsables is the Ibero-American communication company of reference in Social Responsibility and Sustainability, which began its activity in 2005 in Spain and has progressively extended to Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru, among others, with the aim of valuing and recognising communication initiatives related to CSR in organisations. “It is as important to do things well as it is to make people aware of them”, they say.