Health Units

Santa Casa Health Units provide primary health care, in outpatient clinics and at home, in the areas of Adult and Elderly Health, Child and Youth Health, Maternal Health and Family Planning.

Some of these Units also receive, periodically, specialties in Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Stomatology + Oral Hygiene, Nutrition and Mental Health for Adults and Elderly, by visit of doctors from the Dr. José Domingos Barreiro Unit (UCS JDB).

In addition to health care within the scope of General Practice and Family Medicine (FGM), the USSC JDB also provides differentiated health care to all users of Santa Casa, as long as they are referred by the USSC to which they belong, guaranteeing accessibility, globality, quality, continuity and integration care provided to users, through the following interventions and areas of action of the Health Team:

To access the health care that is provided, it is necessary to hold a Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa Health Card, which can be requested at the Emergency Social Service and at the Development and Intervention Units in the area.

There are 6 levels of reimbursement, based on the assessment of the socio-economic situation. The 1st and 2nd tier allow free access to health services.

Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa has extended access to five Santa Casa Health Units to all citizens, so that any person, Portuguese or foreign, who resides, works or is passing through Lisbon, can access the health services available in outpatient clinics, in five USSC (Bairro Armador, Bairro Padre Cruz, Castelo, Dr. José Domingos Barreiro and Vale de Alcântara), simply by making an appointment, by telephone or in person.

Those interested can go to one of these Health Units and thus benefit from the desired clinical care, without having to hold a Santa Casa Health Card.