BEM-VINDA ………..Welcome to our new Brazilian Partner

Recently we celebrated the signing of the contract with our new partner in Brazil, Laços Saúde.

December 16, 2020

BEM-VINDA ………..Welcome to our new Brazilian Partner

Recently we celebrated the signing of the contract with our new partner in Brazil, Laços Saúde.

Due to Covid-19 we replaced our ceremony to an online event but this didn’t mean we couldn’t raise the glasses and enjoy a lovely cake.

Since a few months a small team of nurses has started providing integrated care to cliënts in Copacabana. It reminded us of the first group of brave nurses that started our first Buurtzorg team here in the Netherlands in the winter of 2006.

Buurtzorg, Home health Care, is in Brazil a complete new way of providing care, unknown for this country.

Also the principles of self-management and coaching, very specific to Buurtzorg, are new in Brazil, not only for these first nurses in the team, but also for the founders of Laços Saúde and all the stakeholders in their context.

Martha Oliveira, physician, who initiated the first contact with Buurtzorg, came over to the Netherlands in 2017 and during that trip also visited one of the Buurtzorg teams in The Hague. There, during that visit, the first seed was planted which grew out to launch Laços Saúde in spring of this year.

Together with Iohana Salla, nurse, Michelle Melo, MBA in Healthcare & master in Public Health and coach, and Paulo Marcos Senra Souza,physician, Martha reached out to Buurtzorg in February of this year to express their interest in a collaboration with us.

From March till now, the founders of Laços have been working enormously hard to get this new initiative started in Rio de Janeiro.

We are very happy to have our new Brazilian partner with us and we are looking forward to collaborating with them, for the time being online but hopefully in the near future we will be able to welcome them in person and raise the glasses again, here in the Netherlands.