The Health Area of Lanzarote has launched a new Family and Community Medicine unit at the Valterra Health Center, in Arrecife. The new consultation involves the incorporation of two professionals: one in Medicine and another in Family and Community Nursing with the aim of serving the growing population of the capital area, which currently has nearly 26,000 health cards.
The creation of this unit at the Valterra Health Center is part of the strategic line of promoting Primary Care and responding adequately to current challenges, such as population growth and the progressive aging of citizens. With the new consultation, the health center now has a total of eighteen Family and Community Medicine units, and as many specialists and Nursing professionals. This has allowed a reassignment of patients, managing to reduce population ratios.
The Valterra Health Center covers a total of 25,891 health cards for adults. In 2023, it carried out 132,602 consultations, and up to May of this year it has already carried out 62,207 consultations.
A wide portfolio of services
The capital center of Valterra has a large health care team. In addition to the eighteen Family and Community Medicine units, it has four pediatric care units, a Radiology service, a Psychology consultation, two case management nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, a speech therapist, and three social workers that it shares with other Primary Care centers, along with a large team of administration and orderlies.
The building also houses the Oral Health Unit of the Lanzarote Health Area, which has three dentists and three dental hygienists, as well as an area dedicated to mental health.
On the other hand, Valterra has an out-of-hospital Emergency service staffed with its own personnel that provides assistance twenty-four hours a day. Up to May of this year, this service has attended 49,841 urgent medical consultations and 49,943 Nursing consultations. In 2023, a total of 109,953 medical consultations and 112,113 Nursing consultations were carried out in the emergency service.
The director of Primary Care, María Eugenia Perdomo, positively values the launch of the new unit and the improvement in services, which responds to the objective of providing patients with quality primary care and the continuous improvement of public health.
