Intermutual Hospitals of Levante and Euskadi: example of integration

The path to recovery for patients and workers protected by Fraternidad-Muprespa who require hospital care does not pass exclusively through the Fraternidad-Muprespa Havana Hospital. It also does so through two intermutual centers, jointly owned by several Collaborating Mutual Funds with Social Security, among them, Fraternidad-Muprespa.

The Intermutual Hospitals of Levante and Euskadi are an example of collaboration and management integration, with the focus always on what constitutes the very essence of a mutual hospital center: providing medical, surgical and rehabilitative assistance to protected workers.

The Levante Intermutual Hospital was born in 1972 at the initiative of 22 mutual employers' associations. Currently, Fraternidad-Muprespa, Asepeyo, Fremap, Ibermutua, MAZ, MC Mutual, For its part, the Hospital Intermutual de Euskadi was created at the initiative of Fraternidad-Muprespa, Asepeyo, Fremap, 1996.

While the first is located in San Antonio de Benagéber, a town near Valencia, the second is in the center of Bilbao, but preparing for a move.

But why is the intermutual model so important? To answer this question we have gone to two directors of Fraternidad-Muprespa who are part of the Governing Boards of these hospitals.

“The Intermutual Hospital of Levante encourages the optimization of resources, since it provides health services that, in isolation, we mutual societies could not possibly find with our own resources” explains José Ignacio Mora, vice president of the Governing Board of HI Levante and director of the Medical Management Center of Fraternidad-Muprespa.

In similar terms is expressed José Ignacio Díaz Lucas, deputy secretary of the Governing Board of the HI of Euskadi and Northern Territorial director of Fraternidad-Muprespa. "The intermutual hospital model allows us to take advantage of the use of our own hospital environment, centralized in trauma pathology, which significantly reduces spending on healthcare with external resources, delays in interventions and the minimization of post-surgical sequelae in the form of disabilities."  

Both also agree on the importance of these centers going hand in hand, in various aspects, with the Mutual Funds that comprise them. According to José Ignacio Mora, “these are centers aligned with the philosophy of the Mutuals, based on the recovery of our patients with the highest quality of care in the precise time.”

For his part, José Ignacio Díaz Lucas adds that “the intermutual hospital knows the idiosyncrasy of the Mutuals, their needs, their resources, their procedures and allows us to provide comprehensive treatment to the patient, of the highest quality, close and efficient, in full connection with the computer systems of our mutual.”

Since José Francisco Domenech (HI Levante) and Asier Agote (HI Euskadi) are the professionals in charge of the complex mechanism of hospital management and who in interviews in the coming weeks will bring us closer to the reality of these hospitals.