Vivalis
Vivalis is the Administration of the Common Community Commission (Cocom).
Vivalis and its partner Iriscare are both in charge of implementing policies in the field of health and aid to individuals in the bilingual Brussels-Capital region.
Health
- Health institutions and policy
- Hospitals (standards and accreditation)
- Mental health
- Protected housing initiatives
- Psychiatric care centres and services
- Mental health services
- Patient transport services
- E-health
- Patients' rights
- European and international relations
- Primary social care and health care providers
- General medicine (Impulseo, GP circles, etc.)
- Coordination of primary care providers (Brusano)
- Palliative care and multidisciplinary palliative care teams
- Local social and health contracts
- Local Action Relays
- Preventive medicine and health risk management
- Prevention (health education, screening, vaccination campaigns, smoking cessation, etc.)
- The fight against doping
- Environmental risks
- Infectious diseases
- Pandemic plan
- Risk management plan
Aid to individuals
- The fight against poverty and inequality
- Homelessness
- Roma families
- Public Centres for Social Welfare
- Social coordination centres
- Special Welfare Fund
- Local social and health contracts
- Food aid
- Debt mediation
- Aid to individuals
- Centres for aid to individuals (such as legal aid services)
- Youth protection
- Integration of newcomers (integration programme)
Outside these two sectors
- Houses of justice
- Film screening
Missions
Vivalis has set itself the following missions:
- managing health and social care in Brussels in collaboration with the various levels of government;
- coordinating, steering and supervising the implemented prevention and action measures;
- approving and subsidising health and social care providers and ensuring administrative and financial supervision;
- providing information and communication by producing reference publications.
Vision
Vivalis is committed to becoming the reference administration for social and health issues in Brussels, not only for citizens but also for partners and policy-makers.
