Collaboration

Sint-Trudo Hospital collaborates with numerous partners both inside and outside of healthcare to offer patients a diversified and integrated range of care in the best possible conditions.

With associations of general practitioners

Good cooperation with general practitioners is crucial because we aim to achieve coordinated transmural care. This cooperation is mainly formalized within the consultation platform composed of delegates from the general practitioners' associations in our region and from the medical corps and the management of Sint-Trudo Hospital. This collaboration translates into concrete agreements to make the delivery of patient care as seamless and optimal as possible.

The GP outpost 38, adjacent to the hospital, is a concrete example of the intense cooperation between the GPs and the hospital.
 

With residential care centers

In order to guarantee care continuity for geriatric patients, Sint-Trudo Hospital has a partnership with residential care centers in the region of Sint-Truiden. The emphasis here is on mutual agreements to optimize the quality of care for the residents of residential care centers.
 

With hospitals

Jessa Hospital, Sint-Franciscus Hospital and azVesalius

The four hospitals together form the Andreaz hospital network. 

UZ Leuven

We work closely with UZ Leuven in many areas, including fertility/fertility disorders, neonatal cooperation, tissue and cell banks, Leuven umbilical cord blood bank, hadron therapy ...

Asster

Sint-Trudo Hospital and Asster work closely together in various areas, such as patient referral and treatment, liaison psychiatry, pharmacy services, sterilization ...

Jessa Hospital (Hasselt) and ZOL (Genk)

Cooperation with both hospitals includes pain treatment (multidisciplinary algology teams and multidisciplinary treatment centers for chronic pain) and through the Limburg Oncology Center for radiotherapy, oncology and hematology.

C.H.C. Rocourt, ZOL and UZ Leuven

Cooperation agreements on the intensive and highly specialized medical care of premature babies whose lives are in danger.

PET infrastructure

For the operation of the PET infrastructure, a separate non-profit organization was established with Sint-Trudo Hospital, Jessa Hospital, Hospital Oost-Limburg, UZ Leuven, azVesalius and Sint-Franciscus Hospital.

Flemish Hospital Network KU Leuven

The Flemish Hospital Network KU Leuven is a non-profit organization of 23 Flemish hospitals. Its members commit themselves, through the development of a sustainable knowledge network and a cooperation protocol, to achieve an optimization of the quality of care and to valorize knowledge within the network.

 

With other healthcare partners

Foundation Against Cancer

With the Foundation Against Cancer, Sint-Trudo Hospital provides care by beauticians during cancer treatment, as well as workshops and lectures for cancer patients.

Present

Present is used for volunteer work within Sint-Trudo Hospital. This organization takes care of the administration for the volunteers and provides them with training.

Mediclowns

They visit the little patients on the pediatric ward every week.

 

With Listel

In order to improve the cooperation around multidisciplinary care with the involved primary care and assistance providers, Sint-Trudo Hospital has an agreement with Listel vzw. This provincial consultation platform consists of 3 main pillars:

  • SEL Collaborative First Line Healthcare Initiative
  • GDT Integrated Home Care Service
  • PALLION Specific home care for palliative patients

SEL/GDT can count on the support of the Local Consultation Platforms (POP) in which Sint-Trudo Hospital also participates.

Joint purchasing

Hospilim

Sint-Trudo Hospital is a member of the hospital network HospiLim.

This network consists of the 6 Limburg general and categorical hospitals and 4 psychiatric centers. The aim of vzw HospiLim is to promote consultation and cooperation between the Limburg hospitals and psychiatric centers through a common consultation platform and to realize synergies and economies of scale in purchasing policy for the benefit of its members. 
 

Thomas More

A cooperation agreement between UZ Leuven, AZ Diest, Heilig Hart Leuven, Heilig Hart Tienen, Sint-Trudo Hospital, the MS Center in Melsbroek and Z.org KU Leuven to realize purchases together with the following objectives: optimization of the purchasing function, realization of cost savings, efficiency and quality gains, bundling and exchange of knowledge and expertise, stimulation of innovative solutions. Unlike the operation with Hospilim, a file is coordinated each time by a purchaser from one of the hospitals involved. The meeting location also rotates.