250 ICUs around the world that have performed the self-assessment, the baseline compliance referred is between 40 and 60%. For more than a year, the team of the ICU of Valdemoro distributed the pending good practices and distributed them into groups, and have worked in an exemplary and incessant way, with the passion and conviction that the ICUs we all deserve are written with H ahead.

A great effort towards excellence, with humility and tenacity. This work of the whole team, led by Rebeca Muñoz and María del Carmen García Torrejón, makes them the first H-ICU in the world.

But it is not only worth the commitment of the ICU: this adventure was supported by the management of the Hospital from the first moment, and without their bet nothing would have been possible. In fact, more than 70 ICUs nationally and internationally have requested information on the certification process.

Humanization has a lot to do with utopia: what has not yet been realized but that encourages us to move forward seeking excellence in health care.

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