CUF Mission and Values

Since it was formed, CUF has made a serious, responsible commitment to its patients, partners, suppliers, the state, and society as a whole. This is because CUF is a 100% Portuguese company and a leading provider of health care.

CUF’s goal is to keep looking for the best way to provide health services with the highest levels of quality and knowledge, while respecting the primacy of life and the environment. This is done by developing the intellectual capital of organizations and always looking for the best.

CUF’s activities are based on three platforms of excellence: excellence in human talent, excellence in service, and excellence in operations and systems.

The culture and principles of CUF are the rules of behavior that we follow and show in the way we run our activities every day.

Employees of CUF have more responsibilities to help keep this identity strong by reaffirming and spreading these ideals.

Quality, Innovation and Research

CUF sees quality as an important part of health care and has a clinical management model based on the monitoring and assessment of a wide range of indicators in its units.

As a healthcare provider, CUF stays committed to long-term growth through its unique clinical project, which is one of the organization’s strategy pillars.

The main goals of this strategic position, which applies to all hospital units, are to create value for the patient. This is shown by the uniqueness of our offer in the way we organize health care, the excellence of our clinical staff, and the clinical quality of our care, which is shown by our quality management systems and national and international certification and accreditation programs.

Learn about CUF’s strategy on quality, its quality certifications, and its quality reports here.

At CUF, to innovate means to look for solutions that make the organization stand out and add value. This is done through unique thinking and action that helps the organization plan for the future and make sure it will last.

Research, development, and innovation are important parts of keeping a competitive offer and looking for new ways to help CUF patients and workers stand out.

We offer a plan for delivering health care that is based on a constant search for ways to meet patients’ needs, based on best practices, technological excellence, and the latest scientific breakthroughs that have been proven to work. Whether it’s preventing the disease, diagnosing it, or treating it in a clinical setting, we work steadily to get clinical results, which are then regularly checked and re-evaluated in light of the goals and targets we’ve set.

At CUF, teaching, training, and clinical study are the most important things.

CUF thinks that spending money on education and working with universities is important for the growth of health care operations.

Because of this, it has tried to make cooperation agreements with the most important Portuguese universities. These agreements are made up of conferences that benefit everyone.

CUF sees its partnerships with academic institutions and the scientific community as an important way to create and share information. It also has a number of partnerships with organizations that do research and development.

The CUF Academic Center, which was made to value and improve the knowledge and skills of health workers, is where all of CUF’s training takes place. The CUF Academic Centre is a center of reference in the health sector and works with national and foreign players. It is based on the principles of rigor and ethics and has the highest standards for quality and knowledge.