Spain has developed an apparently isolated from the process of "equalizing" a Health Cooperative Ownership Providers, whose services were initially the basic oral health, and which has been closely linked to the Cooperative Movement associated work in this country. Clinical S. Coop. Ltd - CES S. COOP:
in Madrid in 1980, 27 dental technicians who worked in a private company dedicated to dentistry - Prodencol Clinics, SA-, were surprised when Fernando Villa Landa, an idealist and even then the owner, proposed to all they worked, without excluding anyone, to transform this society into a cooperative associated work. Came the revolution! What did it mean to be cooperative?, They wondered, meant that everyone would be the owners of the company and also self-managed. workers received a settlement based on the time taken in that company, which provided for compulsory social capital as capital fixed and even volunteer. In the month of November 1980 when it was the first General Assembly in establishing the Cooperative Clinics S.Coop.Ltda CES - CES S. COOP ., Although not everybody were willing to devote time and assume the responsibilities of company management, the most motivated formed the Governing Council and the offices of auditors, and was elected as president Mr. Fernando Villa, former owner of the company.
boot Period (1980-1985)
workers have now become leaders found themselves in a new role with great responsibility, and a company that managed, with no knowledge and no apparent concerning cooperative, had three clinics, skilled professionals in dentistry, prosthetics, hygienists and also a good customer base so in this aspect, they had little concern. Aware of the need to acquire business management skills and cooperative, they found that by that time there were no cooperative training centers and the cooperative worker was almost unknown in Madrid, but in Andalusia was very active and cooperative so and undertook a series of courses conducted in Fuentevaqueros (Granada), together with other cooperatives in Andalusia. Loaded / ace illusion and eager to learn, on Friday night the miles traveled to reach point separated them on Saturday morning the course, returning on Sunday evening at Madrid. is how the Founders were discovering the possibilities offered the cooperative, to acquire management skills that enabled them to analyze the present and future lines of business, so they can make appropriate decisions in each case made the chart what they wanted as a company and created the areas of Human Resources, Financial Officer, Production and Marketing. In this way envisioned the provision of dental services through a cooperative-type business, particularly for low-income communities by providing dental services at affordable prices, betting on the installation of facilities in neighborhoods within Region of Madrid since, to date, the public health service paid only inadequate services, while private dental services of a commercial nature, were too expensive for a large proportion of the population. Undertook the work of forming a given image quality, safe care style, confidence and retention is very important in a sector such as dental characterized by the opposite at the time, this was achieved and reinforced internally with teamwork actions that result in good customer service.
Growth period (1985-1990)
After 1985 was an increase in demand caused by economic expansion, declining to control issued by the Professional Associations and submitted a revision to the cooperative law, which allowed a larger and more diverse business cooperative. Between 1985 and 1990 soared cooperative, two clinics were opened, existing ones were modernized and diversified supply of services offered dental care to gynecology, family planning and provision of clinical examinations. The CES becomes effective business model, generating new cooperative projects in the sector dental, which have followed a parallel evolution, and in some cases encouraged by the CES and created, along with these, a cooperative of Second Grade, SANICOOP , to serve the primary cooperatives. By 1992 it had a portfolio of 96,000 customers and partners S.Coop.Ltda CES Clinics and passed the 90 workers health, so they had to make large investments in training to all partners.
In the same period the CES Clinics participated in the creation of the English Confederation of Associated Work Cooperatives (COCETA) 
and have been very active in Union of Cooperatives Working Madrid-UCMTA " the Director General of CES Clinics is currently the president of the Union through UCMTA , cooperate closely with the training and research activities of Cooperative Research Centre of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the international cooperative movement, where the Director General of CES Clinics served as a Program Coordinator the International Cooperative Alliance for Latin America : Program CICOPA-ICA. Commitment social
Through a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) engaged in assisting developing countries ( Association for Cooperation with South-Las Segovias (ACSUR)) , CES clinics has started a "Campaign of Solidarity with the South", by which its customers are invited to contribute an amount equal to 1% of your account with the Cooperative, which immediately generates a contribution identical to the Cooperative for the same background. Thus there has been support for a Comprehensive Development Program in a Rural Community in Nicaragua, a program literacy and job training for rural women in El Salvador and a program of support to refugees in Guatemala.
The Role of Women in the Process.
Mrs. Maria del Carmen Garcia, president of the Governing Board, presented a report Cooperative management over 20 years of existence (from 1980 to 1999), and a beautiful story recounts the process lived by it since its beginnings as a simple worker in a particular company until his promotion to President of the Cooperative which is associated founder, click on the links below and on the bottom of the window that appears, click again where it says Download.
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