Results of a Brazilian national program focused on qualifying the national public health system. A case study.

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Bezerra V1, Ricardo Martins A1, Riera R2, Batista Pereira J3
1Hospital Sírio Libanês, Sao Paulo/Bela Vista/Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2Hospital Sírio Libanês, Sao Paulo/Bela Vista/Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo/Vila Clementino/Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
3Hospital Sírio Libanês, Sao Paulo/Bela Vista/Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Universidade de Sao Caetano do Sul, Sao Paulo/Bela Vista/Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Abstract
Background: the Brazilian Ministry of Health has maintained strategies to guarantee the sustainability of its public health system (Sistema Único de Saúde, SUS), which provides universal and equitable healthcare to 150 million users. One of these strategies is the SUS Institutional Development Support Program (PROADI-SUS), a federal program, created in 2009. The program enables non-profit excellence private hospitals to use tax immunity resources for conducting projects requested by the Ministry of Health that aims to strengthen and qualify the SUS.
Objective: to report the projects of the Hospital-Sirio Libanes conducted in the scope of PROADI-SUS in the last triennium (2021-2023).
Methods: case study carried out at Hospital Sirio-Libanes, São Paulo, Brazil.
Results: During the period, 21 projects were conducted, totaling a budget of USD 100.990.020,00.
• Healthcare management: 8 projects, impacting 21725 SUS users;
• Healthcare assistance: 4 projects, impacting 40035 individuals, including on digital health and 120 pediatric liver transplants.
• Health technology assessment; 2 projects, impacting 878 individuals;
• Health-related capacity building / education on: 3 projects, impacting 14723 individuals.
• Health research: 4 projects, impacting 16845 individuals.
Conclusions: Over 15 years, PROADI-SUS has shown to be a valuable government program for contributing with the sustainability of the Brazilian public health system, and incorporating advances in key areas of this system.
Patient, public and/or healthcare consumer involvement 2021-2024: 94206 people.