• It defines healthcare processes and circuits for breast pathologies, breast cancer in particular, applicable in all of the healthcare group’s centers, present in four Spanish regions, thanks to the synergies between hospitals for more well-rounded, professional care.
  • Under the management of Doctor Julia Camps, a multidisciplinary team has been put in place, which brings together professionals with over 20 years of experience to give patients “personalized and excellent” care. We show five of our patients and their will to overcome their disease in the videos of their Life stories.

Valencia, 18th, June, 2021  The Ribera healthcare group has integrated all of its Breast Units of the group’s hospitals into the Breast department and, since a few months ago, has been coordinating the healthcare and scientific activity of more than 50 specialists in breast pathologies, in order to evaluate each case of breast cancer, regardless of which of the group’s hospitals is that of the patient, from a holistic viewpoint.

Under the management of Doctor Julia Camps, a muti-disciplinary team has been put in place in the university hospitals of Torrejón, Torrevieja and Vinalopó and in Ribera Povisa Hospital, managed by Ribera. It unites professionals with more than 20 years experience in breast pathologies, especially breast cancer, and provides the patients with a shared and transversal program, with personalized attention and the best specialists in Spain to evaluate each case jointly and transversally. The breast department is already working on the imminent incorporation of  Ribera Polusa hospital, in the first phase, and Ribera Santa Justa and Ribera Almendralejo shortly.

Together with the surgical co-ordinator, Doctor Lorenzo Rabadán, and the pathologist co-ordinator, Doctor Laia Bernet, Doctor Camps has driven the unification of healthcare processes and circuits, applicable in all of the group’s centers, as well as the network of all of the professionals that deal with breast pathologies from their own specialty, but with the same criteria. “A case of breast cancer in Vinalopó will be evaluated by specialists at its hospital but also by those at Torrejón, Torrevieja, Vigo y Lugo”, she explains. The objective is to ensure that every patient has the best team of professionals in all areas, in addition to the specialists that will provide permanent and personalized care within the center to which they attend in the group.

Inter-hospital collaboration is, according to those in charge of the Breast Department, “added value unheard of in terms of the comprehensive approach to breast cancer in Spain”. With the best specialists in each area involved in the process connected, regardless of their referral hospital, “they compare ideas, share clinical knowledge and experience and unify criteria in terms of the approach according to the latest developments in breast cancer”, they affirm. For Doctor Laia Bernet it is about “providing different points of view to be discussed together, which will always lead to personalized and more well-rounded treatment for the patient”. Doctor Rabadán assures that “the opinions that are compared and the reflections and solutions that are shared and evaluated amongst the different professionals guarantee the best treatment for patients, regardless of which of the group’s hospitals they find themselves in”.

Doctor Camps highlights the experience, humanity, immediacy, involvement and innovation of the Ribera group’s Breast Department and explains that patients have “a quick diagnosis with the latest radiodiagnostic techniques and best pathological anatomy, a comprehensive approach to breast cancer, including breast reconstruction emotional support that all women need at the different stages, from the diagnosis to the treatment and/or surgery” at their disposal. She affirms that it is key “to identify pathologists and radiologists and their contributions, because they are crucial in order to propose the best clincial and surgical approach for each patient”.

And as each story and each patient is unique, we have captured our patients’ strength, courage and will to overcome their disease, patients who, with the help of the Ribera group’s professionals and in spite of the pandemic, have overcome or are fighting hard against breast cancer (see the trailer here).