The FCV Cardiovascular Institute became the first hospital in Santander to receive Health Accreditation with Excellence, the highest quality recognition granted by Icontec. To achieve this classification it is necessary to obtain more than 400 points, out of a total of 500, in a detailed evaluation that considers factors such as humanization of care, technology management, patient safety, social responsibility, organizational culture, and risk approach and management.
Every step Victoria García takes in her rhythmic gymnastics classes ends in smiles from her parents. It is the satisfaction of seeing their daughter grow up after discouraging prognoses due to a heart problem identified a few days after her birth.
HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) endorsed the FCV medical complex as the most advanced digital hospital in Colombia for systematizing all data, reducing to zero the use of paper, and developing innovations that allow to take the best decisions for patients based on the electronic medical record.
After a semester of studying architecture, Sara Mendoza Crespo decided that her creativity would flow better in a surgery room than in a design workshop. She was not wrong. Today, 24 years after she graduated from medicine, she is making history by being the first woman to implant an artificial heart in Latin America.
Fever and a general body ache were the first signs that alerted Francilia Thomas about her health condition. After almost four months of examinations and medical check-ups in Antigua and Barbuda, she was referred to the FCV to obtain a definitive diagnosis and start treatment.
