Assistència Sanitària and FC Barcelona sign a sponsorship agreement

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13.06.2013

Assistència Sanitària and FC Barcelona sign a sponsorship agreement

The presidents of Assistència Sanitària, Ignacio Orce, and FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, have signed a sponsorship agreement, making the health insurer the club’s Official Medical Supplier for a further four years. With this agreement, Assistència Sanitària will provide the club with the medical insurance and hospital services it needs, both at the Hospital de Barcelona facilities and at the FC Barcelona-Assistència Sanitària medical centre, located at Camp Nou and which specialises in trauma emergencies.

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The agreement is valid until June 30,2013 and binds both parties in the provision of services and sponsorship. According to the agreement, Assistència Sanitària the current Official Medical Supplier of the club will continue to be so for a further four years and will provide medical insurance while hospital services; in addition, the club will use the Hospital de Barcelona facilities and Assistència Sanitària may have access to the FC Barcelona-Assistència Sanitària Medical Centre, based at the Camp Nou, which specialises in sports and trauma medicine and open to all those insured with the institution.

After the signing, Joan Laporta highlighted the importance of this contract renewal, underlining the positive balance of a collaboration that has strengthened every day since 2005, and added that he is “very happy” with the agreement between “two of Catalonia’s benchmarks which lead in their respective fields, sport and health”. Dr. Orce drew attention to the “shared values of both organisations, which stem from a commitment to improving Catalan civil society”.

Assistència Sanitària is an example of health cooperativism, a specific kind of self-management model designed by Dr. Josep Espriu fifty years ago and based on the equality of doctors and users in the decision-making and management bodies. Currently, the institution has 200,000 users and a medical team comprising almost 5,400 doctors.

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