'Consultas em dia': consultations at the day care center for the elderly.

Introduction: Gonçalo, a village with 1316 inhabitants of which 573 are 65 years old or older, presents itself as the 'Cradle of Fine Basketry'. Its population, rich in culture and stories to tell, has the support of a day care center for the elderly, where around 20 elderly people spend their days and find social connection. These patients make individual trips to access medical and nursing consultations.

EcoHealth Center: reduce, reuse, recycle!

Introduction: Climate change is a topic of growing interest and should guide our actions in society. Clinical practice must improve sustainability and ecological behavior as an opportunity. We intend to show how measures were implemented to reduce resource consumption in a health center in Gonçalo, a small village in the center of Portugal, with the support of local government spreading these practices across the community.

Extreme Makeover in a health center: LEAN methodology applied to clinical practice.

Introduction: The LEAN methodology is an integration of methods and tools developed in the 90s in the industrial sector. It aims to reduce waste (things that don't add value to the final product), add worth and work towards continuous quality improvement.

Methods: LEAN tools to improve the clinical practice of a health center include:5S methodology: helps organize, clean, develop and maintain a productive work environment;'Spaghetti' diagram: displays the movement and distance that a given element has to travel throughout the entire process; andTime and motion studies: measure the various times associated with the process and the associated motion.