COOPERATION IN SOUTHEAST NETHERLANDS Maastricht UMC+ cooperates with secondary care centres in Limburg and Southeast Brabant to strengthen tertiary referral care in this area, in order to make this available long-term for the patient and contribute to the health of the region. These aims necessitate strategic cooperation and a sustainable organisation of the care landscape is indispensable. For example, there is cooperation with Zuyderland Medical Centre, with the aim of guaranteeing the quality and accessibility of specialist care in Central and South Limburg. Both partners develop care pathways that are linked to joint research and education. The Intensive Care Units of hospitals in the Southeast Netherlands have also been working together closely for years under the name ICUZON. In the same region, Maastricht UMC+ has created an oncology network (OncoZON). This is a collaboration between nine hospitals and a radiotherapy centre. Within this network, care providers exchange knowledge and harmonise procedures and working methods. The result is optimal oncological care and a more efficiently aligned treatment plan for the patient. COOPERATION IN LIVING LABS Maastricht UMC+ initiates and participates in five living labs for: Public Health, Ageing and Long-Term Care, Sustainable Care, General Practice, and Rehabilitation. These living labs have been arranged in order to deal properly with issues arising from the environment. In an academic workplace, practice, policy, research and education go hand-in-hand. Ideas are raised and plans and policy are formed in close cooperation between researchers, students, municipal officials and policy officers. Projects focusing on specific solutions for specific problems are started in cooperation with – and in the context of – the environment. Non-medical data, for example data available at organisations such as Statistics Netherlands on the Brightlands Smart Services Campus in Heerlen, is combined with medical data to enable new research on optimal care and monitoring. COOPERATION AT TERTIARY CARE CENTRES Maastricht UMC+ also fulfils its role and position as an academic institute in cooperation with tertiary centres of expertise. For example, the Academic Centre for Epileptology (ACE) brings together knowledge and skills relating to epilepsy, from the Kempenhaeghe tertiary referral centre of expertise and Maastricht UMC+. The catchment area of the ACE covers the whole of the Southern Netherlands. Cooperation between institute for mental healthcare Mondriaan and Maastricht UMC+ focuses on academic care development, scientific research and education and training in the area of mental health. CIRO+ is a partnership between Maastricht UMC+ and the Proteion Thuis Foundation. This centre specialises in treating people with chronic lung diseases such as COPD and asthma, cardiac insufficiency or sleep-related respiratory disorders (see also 1.1 on page 16). 44 LIVING LAB IN AGEING AND LONG-TERM CARE The Living Lab in Ageing and Long-Term Care is a structural partnership between care organisations and knowledge institutions ( vocational education (mbo), higher professional education (hbo) and university education (wo)). The goal is to contribute, through multidisciplinary scientific research, to the improvement of 1) quality of life of the elderly, 2) quality of care and 3) quality of work in long-term care for the elderly. This is done through job sharing and projects in which researchers and teachers work together with elderly people, their families and care professionals, among others. They exchange information and experiences, and test and evaluate innovations in the daily care. Healthy Living 2025
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