School for Patients
Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Victoria
Patients
The Heart Centre at Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Victoria provides downloadable information for our patients, such as recommendations for your hospital stay, advice for patients with heart problems, care after pacemaker implantation, catheterization or ablation, etc.
PATIENTS
Learn more about patients’ rights and responsibilities, and about the Heart Failure Patient School, with sessions delivered by patients themselves, offering a new approach to traditional health education.
School for Patients
Following a project of the Andalusian School of Public Health, the Heart Clinical Management Unit launched its Heart Failure Patient School in 2010. The aim of this project is to improve the health and quality of life of people living with heart failure.
The initiative acts as a meeting point and a space for patients, families and professionals to share experiences. The Heart Failure Patient School offers knowledge and skills to:
Improve the ability to adapt to changes after diagnosis.
Increase a patient’s knowledge about their condition and the established treatment regimen.
Help with correct treatment adherence.
Managing the health situation of patients.
Professionals from the Heart Failure Unit together with expert patients deliver the educational sessions, representing a new approach to traditional health education. Patients are co-participants in their own health. The aim is to foster the exchange of knowledge about managing the condition and for patients to take a more active and responsible role in their own health.
The sessions are held in the hospital auditorium at 10:00. There are two different monthly workshops:
The first Thursday of each month, for patients who have had a device implanted, such as a pacemaker or defibrillator.
The second Thursday of each month for patients with heart failure.
If you are interested in attending, you can sign up by completing this form.
You will receive postal confirmation with the date and time of the workshop (or workshops) you have signed up for.
Patients may come to the sessions with family members.
Málaga, at the forefront of clinical care for patients with cardiovascular conditions
The Heart Centre’s Mission
The mission of the Heart Centre at Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Victoria is to improve people’s quality of life, addressing our patients’ vascular health challenges in innovative, sustainable ways, within a personalized environment that is welcoming, high-quality and safe.
OFFICIAL RESOURCES
Links to the Andalusian Health Service (SAS)
Contact the Heart Centre at Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Victoria
Campus de Teatinos, S/N, 29010 Málaga
Hospital switchboard: 951 032 000
Heart Centre phone numbers
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Heart CMU Management (5th Floor - Central Section)
Internal phone: 932 732 – External phone: 951 032 732
Heart Centre Secretary (5th Floor - Central Section)
Internal phone: 932 560 – External phone: 951 032 560
Cardiology and Heart Surgery Office (5th Floor - Central Section)
Internal phone: 932 054 – External phone: 951 032 054
Catheterization Office (Ground Floor - Tower A)
Internal phone: 932 041 – External phone: 951 032 041
Arrhythmias Office (1st Floor - Tower A)
Internal telephone: 932 674 – External phone: 951 032 674