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The entities that make up Biobizkaia
Department of Health
The Basque health model is developed in two basic institutions, the Department of Health and Osakidetza. The Department of Health forms the regulatory, planning and financing body of the Basque Health System, in addition to assuming other responsibilities in terms of rights and citizen participation and guaranteeing the general protection of public health. Web access.
The Department of Health and Osakidetz carry out their main Research and Innovation activities through their three Health Research Institutes: IIS Bioaraba, IIS Biocruces-Bizkaia and IIS Biodonostia and the Chronicgune Health Services Research Center. These four R+D+b Centers, together with the Basque Foundation for Health Innovation and Research (BIOEF), which acts as their corporate head, make up the Map of R+D+b Organizations of the Basque Public Health System.
Osakidetza
The Basque Health Service was created in 1983, establishing itself as an autonomous body to provide comprehensive health care to citizens, financing itself with public budgets and with the aim of integrating within it all the devices and services that progressively was going to be responsible, with the aim of forming a single healthcare system with all existing public resources.
As a provider of Public Health Care in the Basque Country, through its dependent health organizations, it integrates 26 service organizations assigned to each of the three health areas into which the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country is divided. Basque Country (CAPV): Araba/Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa. Web access
OSI Eskerraldea Enkarterri Cruces
The Cruces University Hospital (OSI EEC), which constitutes the core of the Institute, is a public hospital of the National Health System belonging to Osakidetza, inaugurated in 1955.
The mission of the Cruces University Hospital is to be a healthcare organization in Osakidetza, with highly specialized and benchmark services. That works to improve the health of citizens and generate knowledge and innovation useful for the sustainability of the health system and society.
After several phases of expansion and remodeling, currently the Cruces University Hospital is a 900-bed hospital center, which annually receives more than 25,000 admissions with more than 250,000 stays. To carry out the activity, it has a total of 5,400 professionals, of which 1,250 are physicians. Web access
OSI Bilbao Basurto
The OSI Bilbao Basurto (OSI BB) was established in January 2014 as a result of the integration into a single Organization, of the Basurto University Hospital (HUB) and the Bilbao Primary Care Region. Its area of influence is the municipalities of Bilbao and Alonsótegui with a population of approximately 350,000 inhabitants.
For hospital care, the HUB has 620 beds, with an activity of nearly 40,000 admissions, 28,000 surgical interventions and 742,000 specialized care consultations, as well as 2,847,000 consultations carried out in the 26 Primary Care Centers and Units. Consultations for Family Medicine, Nursing, Midwives, Pediatrics, Dentistry and PAC actions.
In addition to its healthcare activity, the OSI BB carries out both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching work for students of Medicine, Nursing, Midwives and Technicians, as well as specialized training for doctors, pharmacists, biologists and psychologists. Furthermore, research activity has historically had a special role, being carried out in OSI research groups in the order of 150 active studies between Trials and Projects. Web access
OSI Barrualde-Galdakao
The OSI Barrualde-Galdakao, belonging to the Osakidetza Network, is an Organization integrated since January 2014 by the Galdakao-Usansolo Hospital, the Gernika-Lumo Hospital, 17 UAP, 4 Outpatient Clinics and 8 PAC. It covers more than 300,000 citizens of the Interior Region of Bizkaia and its mission is “to work to improve the health of our population with quality, safety and sustainability.”
The HGU is a general acute care hospital and constitutes the core of hospital activity with specialized medical-surgical services and references. It currently has 416 beds, receives more than 28,000 admissions annually with more than 111,000 stays and performs more than 25,000 surgical interventions. The structural staff of the OSI is 2,366 professionals, of which 681 are physicians. Its management model is based on the Euskalit Advanced Management Model. Web access
Biscay Mental Health Network
The Biscay Mental Health Network is a public health organization belonging to Osakidetza, which provides comprehensive care for the mental health of the population of Biscay, in collaboration with other organizations and institutions in the health and social fields, with a care model community. It integrates Outpatient Mental Health and the three psychiatric hospitals in Bizkaia: Bermeo Hospital, Zaldibar Hospital and Zamudio Hospital.
Since its creation, in 2010 they have deployed a model that involves care in the community and close to people who need care, reducing hospital stays to the essentials and intensifying coordination with other health, social and social services. -health to provide transversal and integrated care to people with mental illness. Web access
OSI Barakaldo-Sestao
OSI Uribe
Hospital Santa Marina
Hospital Gorliz
CVTTH
Osatek
University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)
The UPV/EHU acquired its current charter in 1980 and after more than four decades of development, it shows a thriving reality. Distributed in three campuses (one in each Historical Territory of the Basque Country) that group 31 faculties and schools, the UPV/EHU makes a decisive contribution to the reality of the Basque Country. Made up of more than 50,000 people, it is responsible for 70% of the research carried out in the Basque Country and has already generated a quarter of a million graduates in the most diverse areas of knowledge. Access to the web
BIOEF
It is the Basque Foundation for Health Innovation and Research, promoted by the Basque Government's Department of Health, with the founding objective of promoting innovation and research in the Euskadi Health System, as a means of developing and continuously improving intervention capacities of the same in the protection of the health of the population. Web access
BBK
It is the entity that owns 57% of Kutxabank and collaborates in promoting the region's economy through its investment activity in surrounding companies. With the income generated, it carries out the first Social Work of the State per inhabitant and the second by size. A Social Work that generates sustainable social and economic value whose beneficiaries are all Biscayans. Web access
Alliances with Biotechnological agents
Biobizkaia has established a network of alliances with biotechnological agents, highlighting the agreements with CIC bioGUNE, BCAM and Ikerbasque.
Achucarro
Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience, is a research center promoted by Ikerbasque and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), dedicated to basic and translational research in neuro-glial biology.
Achucarro's mission is to discover new therapies for brain diseases, working in cooperation with the local community and in collaboration with international institutions in the field of neuroscience, in order to contribute to the training of neuroscientists of the future. Web access
BCAM
BCAM, the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, is promoted by the Department of Education, Language Policy and Culture of the Basque Government, the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, the University of the Basque Country and Ikerbasque.
Its mission is to develop high-quality interdisciplinary research in applied mathematics for the benefit of society. Made up of highly qualified researchers and a wide network of international excellence, BCAM is becoming a center of international reference in applied mathematics, promoting scientific and technological advances. Web access
CIC bioGUNE
CIC bioGUNE, Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences, is a non-profit association whose basic purpose is the conception, production, promotion, dissemination and application of scientific and technological knowledge in the area of biosciences, by conducting systematic research and experimental development activities, as well as training, transfer and dissemination of results to social and business agents, with a multidisciplinary nature and open to third parties.
The CIC bioGUNE was created in 2002 at the initiative of the Department of Industry of the Basque Government and, since then, it has played a strategic role in the most advanced biomedical research and technological innovation in the Basque Country. Web access
Ikerbasque
It is a foundation promoted by the Basque Government to contribute to the drive, promotion and development of scientific, humanistic and technological research and knowledge for the benefit of society, universities and research centers and the scientific community in general, facilitating the progressive consolidation of the collective of researchers and scientists in the Basque Country.
Ikerbasque's mission is to attract prestigious researchers to stimulate research, in cooperation with research centers and universities, to develop research of excellence.Web access
Platforms where the Institute participates
International platforms
List of international platforms in which the Biobizkaia Institute participates.
National platforms
List of national platforms in which the Biobizkaia Institute participates.
Map of Euskadi with all Biobizkaia organizations
