Care Activity

Luz Saúde, SA, leads one of the largest healthcare groups in expansion and provides services in all medical and surgical domains through 27 units (14 private hospitals, 11 private clinics and 2 senior residences).  In particular, Hospital da Luz Lisboa guarantees state-of-the-art medicine, with rooms prepared for all types of procedures, namely robotic surgery (Da Vinci Si HD) and minimally invasive surgery (intelligent room OR1), neurosurgery (neuronavigation system), as well as intraoperative computed tomography (CT).

The Hospital carries out a complete training plan, which is aimed at all health professionals and meets the existing certifications, with the support of Hospital da Luz Learning Health. The varied offer of specific areas for theoretical classes and practical and simulated training for students in its new hospital stands out:

• Two auditoriums with capacity for 80 and 220 seats, equipped with cutting-edge technology that allows simultaneous connection to operating theatres, procedure rooms and/or simulation centre spaces;
• Multidisciplinary consultation room with capacity for 40 seated places, which allows the viewing of images with excellent resolution, consultation and filling of electronic clinical records by the team, remote connection to specialists;
• Simulation centre with 1300m2, matching the best in the world;
• Innovation lab with 100m2.

For more than 500 years, the Misericórdias have been developing social and health support in the community, always adapted to the needs of each time. With a vast experience in healthcare, they have reference units in hospital care and throughout the territory in the area of continuous care and primary healthcare, thus ensuring the continuity of care at local level.

Besides the well-being of the people who seek their units, the Misericórdias promote a national strategy for the local and articulated organisation of healthcare.