From fragmentation to one care pathway
SPD patients often require long-term, complex care. However, current care structures are mainly focused on acute intervention and crisis care. As a result, clients often lose their sense of support and become fragmented across different services. Together with the Limburg network partners, Zorggroep Myna wants to break this pattern with a care model in which the patient remains central, regardless of location or setting.
The project develops a flexible care offer for SPD patients. This intervention aims to establish a fixed form of guidance that supports clients throughout their entire care trajectory, with a clear division of roles between the involved care partners. This approach not only improves the patient’s quality of life and stability, but also leads to fewer relapses, more efficient care and greater involvement of the network.
Strongly rooted in Limburg
Zorggroep Myna is active on five campuses spread across Limburg, from Sint-Truiden to Maaseik. Since the merger on 1 January 2025, Asster and Medisch Centrum St.-Jozef have joined forces under one name. Thanks to this increase in scale, Myna can better respond to the needs in the province, and it also plans a new campus in North Limburg for a more balanced distribution of care provision.
“The merger is now a year behind us. We are pleased that together with the Limburg network partners we can now write a strong substantive story for a very vulnerable, often forgotten and marginalised population,” say Bert Plessers and Greet Croenen, general directors at Zorggroep Myna. “Hopefully this project will lead to new, innovative concepts with which we can truly make a difference for this target group.”
Two years of guidance
The project will be supported for two years by a promoter from UHasselt and will have access to the THINK³ lab at Health Campus Limburg DC, where researchers, students and care professionals collaborate on care innovation. Zorggroep Myna receives 35,000 euros in support from the Care Innovation Fund.
This fund of POM Limburg and the Province of Limburg stimulates innovation in the care sector by providing financial and substantive support to innovative projects. In the third call, five trajectories were selected, with themes such as mental health care, primary care and hospital capacity.
