by S0p0rt3 | Sep 29, 2023 | Ribera |
- It is ranked 67th in the analysis carried out every year by Actualidad Económica, which measures the actions of companies to attract talent, promote a good environment, CSR actions and training.
- Ribera is the first hospital group on the list, which highlights its significant commitment to internal promotion and career development for its employees.
The Ribera healthcare group is one of the 100 best companies in Spain to work for, according to the ranking prepared each year by Actualidad Económica, which analyses and scores the actions of hundreds of companies to attract talent, foster a good atmosphere and teamwork, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) actions and training. Ribera is in 67th place this year and is the first hospital group in the ranking, in which its commitment to internal promotion and career development of its employees is especially valued. Specifically, the group offers continuous training and growth opportunities, as well as internal offers for job changes, so that professionals can design and adapt their professional career as they wish.
Ribera, which already has twelve hospitals, 64 Primary Care centres, 38 polyclinics and a University School of Nursing, among other projects, is the highest rated hospital group in this ranking due to its People management policy and a comprehensive vision of the needs of its professionals, which also includes an “emotional salary”, personalised and adapted to the needs of each one, including facilities for flexibility, training and conciliation with the aim of ensuring their physical and emotional well-being.
“Attracting and retaining talent is one of our main objectives as a company and the most important challenge we face every day, given the current shortage of professionals in the healthcare sector; hence our efforts to improve the employee experience, putting ourselves in their shoes and placing them at the heart of the company’s strategies, in order to guarantee their satisfaction and commitment”, Ribera assures.
by S0p0rt3 | Sep 18, 2023 | Ribera |
- The president of the health group stresses the importance of involving all stakeholders in tackling health challenges and the invaluable contribution of the media in this task.
- The awards are created to consolidate the legacy of the renowned health communicator, founder of Salut i Força.
The president of the Ribera Health Group, Alberto de Rosa, has been awarded in the first edition of the Joan Calafat Health Awards with an Honourable Mention for health management. These awards were created to consolidate the legacy of Joan Calafat, a renowned health communicator who passed away in 2022, founder and first director of the television programme Salut i Força, and of the paper publication of the same name, as well as to promote health care and research.
The awards ceremony, organised by the magazine Salut i Força last Friday in Mallorca, was attended by numerous political authorities and personalities from the world of health, professional associations and representatives of private healthcare, as well as academics and researchers, such as the president of the Balearic Government, Margalida Prohens; the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés; the councillor for Health, Manuela García; the manager of IBSalut, Javier Ureña, and the director of Salut i Força, Carlos Hernández, among others.
During the presentation of the award, Alberto de Rosa stressed the need for all agents to collaborate in order to face the global health challenges in this post-pandemic stage. “The contribution of the media is invaluable as an agent of influence in society, which can contribute to improving the quality of life of citizens through its informative and informative work”. The president of the Ribera Group also had words of recognition for the founder of the publishing house. “Joan Calafat was a pioneer, a teacher for many communicators and health professionals,” he said.
In addition to the health management award received by Alberto de Rosa, other awards were presented at the same ceremony, such as the prize for the best final degree project (TFG) in Medicine at the UIB, the best TFG in Related Health Sciences, and three honorary prizes awarded respectively to the best nurse of the year, the best doctor of the year and the best pharmacist of the year.
by S0p0rt3 | Aug 3, 2023 | Ribera |
- The healthcare group highlights its humanisation plans for healthcare and its actions in health promotion and prevention, as well as its innovative and flexible People Management policy, in which effort and dedication are rewarded.
- It is also making progress in its environmental policy, with new measures to save energy and water and 84% of renewable energy.
The Ribera Health Group has presented its Sustainability Report 2022, which highlights the creation of the Ribera Salud Foundation, the high levels of job stability and well-being of its professionals, the renewal and approval of new environmental certifications that contribute to the sustainable development of its activity, new measures for saving energy and water and its action plan with the community, in terms of health promotion and prevention.
Sustainability has become a cross-cutting element of the Ribera Group’s strategy. In addition, the new corporate sustainability reports have a forward-looking approach with time scenarios, are being adapted to the new European sustainability standards (ESRS) and always link financial and non-financial information.
Specifically, the Ribera Salud Foundation was registered in the Register of Foundations of the Generalitat Valenciana in March 2022, and aims to “promote innovation and contribute to creating a better future, giving people the necessary tools to improve their quality of life, through health management and education”. It is also committed to cutting-edge research.
With regard to the People Management policy, the Ribera healthcare group considers it one of the main contributions to its management model, being one of the strategic pillars in the success of its healthcare projects. “The key to the group’s success is its professionals”, they state in the Annual Report. For this reason, they state that they are committed to “an innovative and more flexible People Management policy, in which effort and dedication are compensated”, in addition to the generation of stable, quality employment through continuous training and internal promotion “as a way of retaining talent and optimising the working environment”. The Ribera Group also explains in its report that it establishes and develops initiatives “that integrate equal treatment and opportunities”. Not surprisingly, 70% of its professionals are women and nearly 90% of its staff have permanent contracts.
Ribera also assures that continuous training “is the key to success, the main objective of the group being to facilitate the process of updating and developing the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the correct performance of the job, while at the same time it is a tool for improvement in order to achieve corporate objectives”.
Among the environmental values analysed, the Ribera Group highlights the fact that 84% of the energy consumed in its twelve hospitals, 64 primary care centres and 35 polyclinics is of renewable origin. In addition, the healthcare group has numerous environmental certifications and a corporate Environmental Policy that is applied to the activity of all its work centres. The management of energy, waste and development, as well as the constant monitoring of the results of the climate strategy are some of the cornerstones of its environmental policy. Not surprisingly, it allocates almost one million euros to the prevention of environmental risks.
It also highlights in its report the certifications obtained in previous years and which are renewed annually, adding in 2022 the ISO 14001 certification of Environmental Management Systems of the Hospital Universitario del Vinalopó and the Carbon Footprint certification in the hospitals of Denia, Ribera Hospital de Molina (Murcia) and Ribera Juan Cardona (Ferrol). And during 2022, the Ribera Group has developed action plans focused on expanding the number of hospitals with its certified carbon footprint; registering the carbon footprint with the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge; continuing to reduce the use of plastic; training professionals in good environmental practices, with special emphasis on the correct segregation of waste; and raising awareness of the sustainable use of resources.
In its 2022 Sustainability Report, the Ribera Group highlights that the Vinalopó Hospital has four Joint Commission International accreditations (Enterprise, Coronary Bypass Surgery Programme, Vinalopó Health Department and Hospital) and that the Ribera Povisa hospital has also been accredited by the Joint Commission International. This is the most prestigious health accreditation that allows these hospitals of the group to be among the best centres in the world. In fact, one of the key aspects to obtain it is to accredit good risk management, specifically the environmental part of management.
The group’s Humanisation programme has also made progress in 2022. Dénia Hospital has launched a Care Plan for patients with severe functional diversity, which is already in operation at Vinalopó Hospital; Ribera Hospital de Molina has implemented a protocol to allow pets to visit patients; and all Ribera hospitals have committed to music therapy with workshops and live performances and the group’s new Spotify channel, with playlists adapted to patients, families and professionals and a health podcast. In addition, corporate volunteering has been strengthened and collaboration has increased with the Discamino Association, which accompanies people with functional diversity on the Camino de Santiago.
The commitment to society in terms of health promotion and prevention has been reflected in 2022 through all the workshops, conferences, exhibitions and activities organised for patients, in the healthcare centres themselves or in schools and associations. In addition, patient councils in all hospitals have once again become face-to-face, and Ribera Juan Cardona (Ferrol) and Denia hospital have launched this advisory body in 2022, made up of the main patient associations, which meets regularly with the management of the respective hospitals. Professionals from the group have taught thousands of children the Ribera song to learn how to perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), the Torrejón Hospital has recovered the Camino de Cervantes and the group has published the first children’s story to help children control sugar consumption.
Summary of the Ribera Group Sustainability Report
by S0p0rt3 | Jul 25, 2023 | Ribera |
- With data verified by AENOR) and taking into account the Hospital Production Units, emissions of gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are reduced.
The Ribera healthcare group has reduced its carbon footprint by 40% from 2020, based on emissions data per hospital production unit (uph), verified by the independent entity Aenor.
The carbon footprint is the “trail” of human activities that lead us to use fossil fuels. In doing so, we emit greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide and ozone, and their concentration, increasing since the Industrial Revolution, is directly related to the increase in the Earth’s average temperature. The UN this year made an urgent call to “keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius this century by halving annual emissions of greenhouse gases by 2030”.
The Ribera Group hospitals implement measures and actions every year to reduce their impact on the environment, including the installation of solar window films, the closing of balconies, the installation of LED lighting, the readjustment of air conditioning set points, campaigns for responsible use of lighting and water, aimed at professionals and patients, such as “Turn off and let’s go” and “Press me when you leave”, or the weekly and monthly review of electricity, natural gas and medical gas meters to analyse consumption.
The Ribera Group is committed to protecting the environment and preventing pollution, aware that this commitment has a positive impact on the health and well-being of the citizens of the areas in which it has hospitals, clinics and primary care centres.
by S0p0rt3 | Jun 22, 2023 | Ribera |
- These awards, leaders in the health sector and with 27 years of experience, reward the creativity of health products and services as well as the communication that companies make of these products and services.
- The Ribera health group has already received several awards that recognise its commitment to design and imagination to highlight the importance of disease prevention and present formats and actions that are more attractive to citizens.
This year’s Aspid awards have recognised the originality and great acceptance among patients of Lola, the virtual caregiver of the Ribera healthcare group, as well as the creativity of the cardiovascular disease prevention campaign, Ritmos de Vida, with gold and silver awards respectively. These awards, leaders in the health sector and with 27 years of experience, reward the creativity of both health products and services and the communication that companies make of them.
Lola, the virtual caregiver of the Ribera healthcare group, developed in collaboration with the startup Tucuvi, is a voice and artificial intelligence technology that already allows several of the group’s hospitals to remotely monitor and control thousands of patients with various pathologies related to respiratory problems, such as COPD, as well as palliative patients, whether oncological or not. Lola is a platform capable of making multiple calls in a short interval of time without the patient needing advanced technology beyond a telephone. This virtual caregiver collects and processes all the information provided by the patient, to whom she asks the appropriate questions. In the event of decompensation of the patient’s vital signs or any sign of worsening health, she issues the corresponding alert for a healthcare professional to contact the patient.
Ritmos de Vida, on the other hand, is one of the most recent health campaigns of the Ribera health group that has already been awarded and recognised by organisations and events in the health sector, but also in the creative field, for its originality and impact. Ritmos de Vida unites health and music to raise awareness of cardiovascular diseases and the associated risk factors, with a singular and unique element, the first ever arrhythmic metronome, which sways to the “rhythm” of Adrian’s sick heart, a patient with arrhythmia. This purpose-built metronome is the centrepiece of a series of initiatives organised by the healthcare group in its hospitals and clinics, all linked to cardiovascular health awareness and education for its patients. These include, among others, a travelling exhibition in the group’s hospitals, musical compositions recorded to the rhythm of this metronome, awareness-raising sessions with patients and a website with healthy advice on how to take care of the heart. Ribera has worked on this initiative with Maart Agency, responsible for the creative idea, and with Estudio Espadaysantacruz, manufacturer of the personalised arrhythmic metronome.
The Aspid awards ceremony took place on Tuesday afternoon at the World Trade Center in Barcelona, and those in charge of collecting the awards were Ribera’s Digital Transformation Officer, Tania Menéndez, and the group’s Brand Manager, Mónica Jaén, together with doctors Maikel Ayo, Hospital Medical Services Lead of the Ribera healthcare group, and Guillermo Losa, head of the Home Hospitalisation service of the Hospital Universitario del Vinalopó, and Mireia Martínez, Project Manager of Tucuvi.
by S0p0rt3 | Jun 21, 2023 | Ribera |
- The Murcian group has clinics specialising in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases and with professionals in Cardiology, Sports Medicine, Physiotherapy and Traumatology, Endocrinology and Nutrition, among others.
The Ribera healthcare group has invested in Cardiosalus, a group of clinics specialising in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart disease, with professionals specialising in Cardiology, Sports Medicine, Traumatology, Physiotherapy, Digestive System, Urology, Endocrinology, Dermatology and Cosmetic Medicine, Clinical and Sports Nutrition, and which is a benchmark in the Region of Murcia.
Ribera, which enters the project with a majority stake, aims to help Cardiosalus’ professionals to give a new boost to its activity and growth, while the group continues its expansion in this autonomous community, where it already manages the Virgen de la Caridad medical group, with hospitals in Cartagena and Caravaca and 32 polyclinics in the region, as well as Ribera Hospital de Molina, in Molina de Segura.
Ribera’s entry into Cardiosalus confirms its commitment to the Region of Murcia and the growth of its services and specialised areas, for the personalised approach of patients seeking a comprehensive improvement for the treatment of a pathology or for the prevention of illnesses and to improve their state of health. The Ribera Group has, among others, a Heart Area, a Breast Area, the Radiological Ring, or the Ribera Lab laboratories, among others.
The Cardiosalus clinics in Murcia have professionals specialised in cardiology, cardiac rehabilitation, medical check-ups, physiotherapy and sports rehabilitation, clinical and sports nutrition. It also offers its patients a global approach with the latest diagnostic technology, for example, in the performance of echocardiography, stress tests with ergospirometry and 3D biomechanics, the measurement of blood and genetic biomarkers, as well as the latest techniques for the treatment of muscle and joint injuries with echodirected echocardiography.
For the CEO of the Ribera healthcare group, the Cardiosalus project “is a very valuable addition to the group’s expansion in the Iberian Peninsula, but especially in the Region of Murcia”. She also assures that “personalised and precision medicine in specialised areas allows us to have the best professionals in Spain to improve these services, in a transversal way, in all our hospitals and clinics”.
For the directors and professionals of the Cardiosalus group, the entry of the Ribera health group represents “a very important boost from a national and international reference group, to a pioneering project in our Region that wants to continue growing: “We have always believed in our health and prevention project, and our slogan – we care for your health – reflects our objective from day one, and the Ribera group has this same philosophy, so by joining their health experience we can care for and give health to many more people”.
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