Today, 30 November, Monsignor Salvador Cristau Coll, the Bishop of Terrassa blessed the chapel at the Cuides UIC Barcelona clinic, Spain’s first university clinic in palliative care, which was presented last February. Accompanied by the rector, Alfonso Méndiz; the president of the university board, Miguel Ángel Cazcarra; the manager of the UIC Barcelona clinics, Jose M. Garcia-Navas; the managing director of the Clinic, M. José Casas, and members of the Governing Board, the bishop blessed the space intended for all people who need a place to gather in privacy.
Cuides UIC Barcelona - University Clinic of Support for Advanced Diseases and Palliative Care, the UIC Barcelona new clinic that was created with the aim of providing comprehensive, active and personalised care and support to anyone suffering from advanced diseases, as well as their families. Located on the 2nd floor of the Hospital Universitari General de Catalunya, UIC Barcelona’s third university clinic has innovative facilities designed to create a comfortable environment provide comprehensive, active and personalised support to the patient and their family.
Based on a person-centred care model, UIC Barcelona’s third university clinic is home to a multidisciplinary team of professionals from a variety of speciality fields such as medicine, nursing, psychology, physiotherapy and social work. As such, the clinic offers not only support and monitoring of patients' symptoms, but also of their emotional and psychological well-being. This care also encompasses patients’ families, who support them throughout the process of the disease.
And with all these people who may need a space to gather in privacy in mind, the clinic has a chapel, which has been blessed today by the Bishop of Terrassa, Monsignor Salvador Cristau Coll.
Besides the medical care offered in the clinic’s facilities, Cuides UIC Barcelona also has other support services available in other medical specialties, outpatient services with outpatient care for discharged patients or first visits, home care and grief care.
In addition, as a university clinic, Cuides UIC Barcelona not only offers students from medicine, nursing and other degree programmes in the field of health sciences a space where they can carry out their tutored clinical practicums, it also becomes a space that generates and transfers knowledge in the field of palliative care, thanks to the research carried out by the WeCare Chair at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the content taught on the Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine and the Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
Cuides UIC Barcelona has also been made possible thanks to the collaboration efforts of individuals and organisations. As a token of appreciation for their commitment and support, Cuides UIC Barcelona also features a donor wall, created by designer Andreu Carulla for the clinic’s entrance hall, representing everyone who has contributed to the project.
