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Presentation of Josep Maria Via, the Chairman of the Board of Governors

In these complicated and uncertain times, the public health care organizations have a responsibility that we cannot evade and which extends to different areas. For a start, we must maintain a commitment to ensuring the continuity of the organization and of the centres that constitute the organization, with the maximum safeguards for professional capital. Furthermore, we must guarantee a service for our citizens that maintains quality standards and, to do this, we must encourage attitudes that lead to more efficiency and more shared responsibility. And we must also get take part by becoming involved in their own health and by making appropriate use of the public health care services, which can only be truly universal and equal if they are sustainable.

All of us who make up the MAR Health Park (PSMAR, Parc de Salut MAR) know that we are part of an organization of great value because of the social and professional work that we do and because of the assets in terms of knowledge and innovation that we contribute. The facts contained in this 2010 report, while set in this difficult context, show the corporate lines that are becoming consolidated. We are advancing with a comprehensive health care organization that has a community aspect but that also acts as a high-level specialist centre. We are adding projects that reinforce essential synergies with other centres in Barcelona and the metropolitan area. We work together with county hospitals, where we can contribute specialist care than these hospitals cannot provide on their own due to population size. We are taking steps on a path that is increasingly shared with the Litoral Mar health area, which links us to centres that connect us to the care of more than 300,000 people. We are incorporating new technologies, both in terms of care (rehabilitation support, for example) and in terms of training and knowledge development (@pren virtual school, Knowledge Forum). We remain open to society, not just as the health care centres we are, but also by bringing together the solidarity of the professionals and of the public in health care and other, more social, aspects.

These examples show us that the major milestones that mark our path as a care organization are clearly set out and do not allow us to deviate from them, although the general circumstances mean that we move forward more slowly.

 
Josep Maria Via
PSMAR Chairman