1st Conference on Paediatric Palliative Care “Integrating the illness into the life of the child and their family”

News 21 Dec 2022

1st Conference on Paediatric Palliative Care “Integrating the illness into the life of the child and their family”

On the 15th of December, the 1st Conference on Paediatric Palliative Care "Integrating the illness into the life of the child and their family" was held at the Cudeca Foundation's Institute for Training and Re...

Mª José Portillo, vocational palliative care nurse

News 18 Oct 2022

Mª José Portillo, vocational palliative care nurse

My name is María José Portillo Peña, I have been a nurse at Cudeca for more than 13 years. I like to define myself as a nurse by vocation because, since I was very young, I have known the profession through my father, Paco Portillo, a nurse from Benalmádena, with many...

30 years adding Life to Days: Palliative Care Centre

News 11 Aug 2022

30 years adding Life to Days: Palliative Care Centre

Did you know that in 1995 the Benalmádena Town Hall gave a plot of land to the Cudeca Hospice to build our Palliative Care Centre? In 1998 we laid the first stone of the Centre and started a campaign to cover the cost of the construction thanks to the community. ...

Get to know our In-patient Unit

News 09 Aug 2022

Get to know our In-patient Unit

Patients in a more complex state, who cannot be cared for at home, receive specialized care in this unit 24 hours a day. In order to provide quality care for both patients and their families, the unit is formed by expert professionals with extensive experience; ...

30 years adding life to the days. Psychological and Social Care

News 10 Aug 2022

30 years adding life to the days. Psychological and Social Care

One of the key aspects of palliative care is to address the psycho-social needs of the person suffering from an illness such as cancer or other advanced diseases. For this reason we have psychologists and social workers who support the other care teams and ...

30 years adding Life to Days. Our care: Home Care

News 09 Aug 2022

30 years adding Life to Days. Our care: Home Care

Did you know that in 1994 we hired our first Home Care team and now we have 7 teams that provide medical care and psychological and social support to more than 1,700 people and their families every year? Our teams are made up of a nurse and a doctor specialised in palliat...

“Joy is a state of the soul and not a quality of things…”, Home Care Team Malaga 2

News 26 Jul 2022

“Joy is a state of the soul and not a quality of things…”, Home Care Team Malaga 2

Hello! Let's introduce ourselves: we are Home Care Team Malaga 2 and we are a doctor and two nurses. We are called Malaga 2 because there is another team that also visits patients in Malaga and that, therefore, is the Malaga 1 team. Both teams...

Words for a Sister, by Cristina Loring

News 17 Jan 2022

Words for a Sister, by Cristina Loring

IN MEMORIAM Every year in December, close to Christmas, Cudeca commemorates the people who have left us during the year by lighting a light in memory of their lives. There are many who leave a deep mark and with these words in memory of one of them, I would like to remember each an...

Luis Domínguez, “if our car could speak” or a heartfelt story of a nurse at Cudeca

News 17 Jan 2022

Luis Domínguez, “if our car could speak” or a heartfelt story of a nurse at Cudeca

My name is José Luís Domínguez, Luís to patients, relatives and colleagues, and I am a nurse. I landed in the heart of the CUDECA family one warm month of July to form part of the first nursing team that started out in the current Hospita...

Virginia, one of us

News 17 Jan 2022

Virginia, one of us

My name is Virginia and I trained as a doctor and as a nurse. I had heard about the Cudeca Foundation and its special kind of caring for patients. About 4 years ago I had the opportunity to directly verify everything I had heard, when several of its professionals helped in the different disease proces...