Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra – CHUC, Coimbra, Portugal

CHUC's mission is to provide high quality and differentiated health care in a context of training, teaching, research, scientific knowledge and innovation, constituting itself as a national and international reference in areas considered as poles of excellence.

CHUC is an open organization formed by a network of hospitals, services and technologies structured and integrated to provide a humanized, complete, close, reliable and transparent service to society. It is a center distinguished by the quality of care, research capacity, innovation and teaching and by the positive impact on the community, ensuring efficiency and global sustainability in the medium and long term.

Values ​​and Principles
a) Public service with primacy in the patient.
b) Respect for human dignity, cultural and religious diversity and the rights of the sick;
c) Universality of access to health care and treatment equity;
d) Rigor, integrity and responsibility;
e) High standards of humanization, quality and technical and scientific competence of the services provided;
f) team spirit;
g) Respect for the values ​​of a just, solidary, humanistic and personalistic society;
h) Respect for the culture and founding traditions of the pioneering hospitals, assuming the duty to add something to the inherited culture capital, with a view to developing the collective culture of the new institution;
i) Social responsibility

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