ASPAYM Catalunya conducts its care project at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital on patients newly affected by spinal cord injuries admitted to the Spinal Cord Injury Unit. This project benefits from the experience of volunteers and spinal cord injury veterans, who support patients during their convalescence with different activities such as tutorials so that patients acquire new skills to carry out daily activities. It also supports close relatives to help them overcome the initial period of accepting the injury and group activities to foster personal independence.

The AECC involves patients, families, volunteers and professionals, who work together to prevent, inform, be with people, and fund cancer research projects to foster better diagnosis and treatment. Its mission is to fight against cancer and lead the effort of society as a whole to reduce the impact caused by the disease. At Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, it offers companionship and support to cancer patients and provides peer volunteers especially for women diagnosed with breast cancer.

Non-profit private foundation aimed at improving the quality of life for the most vulnerable people. The Petit Món Foundation offers, among other projects, temporary accommodation for families who need a place to feel at home while facing hospital or surgical treatment for their child, daughter, or a family member under the most pleasant conditions possible and without incurring a significant financial expense.

It is aimed at families residing more than 50 km from Barcelona and who have few financial resources to afford hotel accommodation during their stay, and have made the request through the social workers at the hospitals where they receive treatment. The only condition imposed on beneficiaries is that they commit to taking care of the provided accommodation, the room, and the common areas.

The request to access the accommodation is processed through the Social Work Unit of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital. You can find more information here.

Association created by a group of clowns made up specifically of hospital clowns that aims to make hospital stays more pleasant for children and adults, using the therapeutic properties of laughter and a big dose of sensitivity. The goal is to minimise the impact of hospitalisation on children and their families, and promote activities that make hospital stays more pleasant.

The Catalan Oncology Assistance League Foundation provides psychosocial care to people diagnosed with a cancerous illness and their family during the whole process of the disease, while conducting dissemination, prevention and rehabilitation activities. It aims to offer information, orientation and psychological support to patients diagnosed with cancer to help them face the consequences this illness brings with it, both to the patient and those around them. They work with our hospital through peer volunteer work and bedside support in adult hospital wards.

Non-profit organisation that aims to give children with serious medical conditions their wishes through inspiring experiences of hope, strength and joy. Make a Wish helps patients, their relatives and healthcare professionals to minimise the effects of the hospital setting, and thus contributes to improve the child’s quality of life. The foundation is committed to making children’s dreams and wishes come true, always respecting Vall d’Hebron’s values and at the request of healthcare professionals. It organises celebrity visits to children, visits to iconic places or shows, and other activities.

KREAMICS is the Association of Burns Patients of Catalonia, formed in the Vall d’Hebron Hospital Burns Unit on the initiative of patients and professionals in the Unit. Its goal is to bring together burns patients with a view to helping one another, to contribute to emotional support and provide counselling for patients who are in the acute phase of the process and in the rest of the treatment stages. 

The Theodora Foundation’s Smile Doctors are professional artists from different fields (clowns, magicians, storytellers, musicians and actors) who adapt their artistic knowledge to voluntary work in hospitals. In the case of Vall d'Hebron they collaborate with a large group of hospital clowns who make hospital stays more enjoyable for children and interrupt the monotony of hospital routine.

This foundation offers a “home away from home” for families with children suffering long-term illnesses who have had to travel a long way from their place of residence for care, through Ronald McDonald Houses. The house that the Ronald McDonald Foundation has in Barcelona is located near to Vall d'Hebron Hospital and has 15 individual rooms for relatives and different common areas where they can live in a shared environment.

Résonnance España is an organisation whose mission is “to offer classical music where there isn’t any”, make universal access to music easier and improve the quality of life of people going through difficult situations. Its collaboration with Vall d’Hebron allows concerts to be held within the clinical centre, for patients and their relatives.