- The health centers of the group organize Christmas decoration contests, special menus, workshops with patients, children's parties and even an intergenerational living nativity scene.
- Its professionals are involved in collecting toys, Christmas entertainment, organizing concerts and games for chronically ill and hospitalized patients and participating in corporate volunteer days for charities
Valencia, December 23, 2022 – The health group Ribera For another year, it devotes itself to its patients at Christmas, thanks to the involvement and support of its professionals, who organize Christmas decoration contests, special menus, workshops, children's parties, art exhibitions, nativity scenes and Christmas trees and even an intergenerational living Nativity scene. which, in this case, takes place in the Ribera Povisa hospital (Vigo). In addition, throughout this week and the next two weeks, the classic visits by athletes, clowns, firefighters, children's characters, Santa Claus and the Three Wise Men to the Pediatric floors will come to most of the centers, to encourage stays or consultations of the smallest. The objective, framed in the humanization plans of the Ribera hospitals, is to try to make patients live and feel the spirit of Christmas, also when they go to a consultation on these dates, are admitted or spend many hours in the health center for a treatment, such as dialysis or chemotherapy.
Most of these actions are possible thanks to the strong involvement of the group's professionals with personalized, humanized and quality health care that undoubtedly improves the patient experience. In fact, the Christmas decoration competitions between departments of the same hospital have the objective of giving special value to this action that arises spontaneously in each work area. For his part, he Vinalopó University Hospital and the Denia Hospital They have organized two children's parties and in the latter, they will also receive a visit from a school in La Xara to sing Christmas carols in the center.
In addition, this Christmas the Ribera group has once again donated basic medical supplies and is organizing a food collection for the Federation of Ukrainian Associations in Spain and the Spanish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, which helps families in this countries displaced by the war, as well as those who remain there. It has also promoted corporate volunteering in many of its work centers, involving professionals in collecting toys, as is the case of Riverside Juan Cardona with the association Dignidad Galicia, in Ribera Hospital of Molina, with the donation of food for Cáritas or the delivery of toys and food by the workers of Futures for the Red Cross, as well as voluntary assistance at the Casa Caridad facilities in Valencia or Cáritas in Elche, to help prepare batches of products for families in need.
The professionals of the Ribera group are also voluntarily involved in activities and actions to improve the stay of patients on these dates. For example, in the Torrejón Hospital a star craft workshop has been organized to decorate the Christmas tree and a Pasapalabra for dialysis patients; a professional from the Hospital del Vinalopó (Elche) plays the piano at the Dialysis and Day Hospital to liven up the passage of patients through the center and in Torrejón and Denia micro-concerts have also been organized, while in Ribera Hospital de Molina they are planned carols.
Lastly, several hospitals in the group have also held their respective patient councils on these dates to congratulate the patient associations on the holidays and the new year, take the opportunity to take stock of the year and prepare for the new financial year, in which the involvement and collaboration with these entities will once again be maximum.
