Mission

The Centro Hospitalar do Oeste’s mission is to provide health care with rigor and technical, scientific and organizational excellence, with professional ethics and social justice, respecting the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and the commitment of the National Health Service (SNS).

Eyesight

To be a Center recognized as a reference at regional, national and international level, of unquestionable merit in the performance of its mission, whose role is fundamental in the affirmation and development of the country and the population it serves.

Values ​​and Principles

The Centro Hospitalar do Oeste and its professionals are governed, in the pursuit of their respective activities, by the following values ​​and principles:

Values:
1) Public service;
2) Justice and equity;
3) Affection.

Principles:
1) Primacy and centrality in the patient;
2) Respect for individual dignity;
3) Privacy of care in a clean and comfortable environment;
4) Ethics and social responsibility;
5) Quality and innovation in clinical and organizational practices;
6) Collaboration and promotion of partnerships with different Health stakeholders .

Goals

Considering the commitment of the Centro Hospitalar do Oeste on the premise of “Reinforcing Cohesion and Social Equality”, the objectives recommended for the pursuit of its activity are:

1) Promote the population’s access to the NHS – Access 

– Search for differentiation between the different health care providers to the population;

2) Reduce the burden on families – Sustainability 

– Promotion of organizational efficiency;
– Hospital organization management and modernization of internal functioning processes – Optimization of available resources;

3) Ensuring higher quality of the NHS – Quality

– Pursuit of continuous quality improvement within the scope of the clinical and hospital governance model;
– Promotion of Scientific Research & Organizational Development – integration into national and international education, training and scientific production networks as a condition for a practice of clinical and organizational excellence.