Today, we met with Dr. Flor Ledeima, the Health Innovation Manager of Medife. Medife is a private prepaid medicine company that established an insurance company also named Medife and an Obras Sociales for executives called ASE. Medife insurance can be acquired in three ways: volunteers like individuals or companies through a direct payment or monthly premiums, ASE members who can pay a higher premium for bonus coverage, and individuals from another union who want a different or extra coverage. Medife is regulated by the Superintendent of Health.

After, we visited a private hospital known as the Cardiovascular Institute of Buenos Aires. Recently, ICBA was purchased by Swiss Medical. In terms of nursing, the hospital isn’t a teaching hospital. However, they offer a Cardiovascular internship program for nurses with research and physician oversight. In addition, even though there’s no specific teaching program, the hospital has specific agreements with universities for teaching specialities. I appreciated how this hospital evaluates their nurses through a Mini-cex and ODP because all nurses in Argentina aren’t required to take an exam like the NCLEX.

At the end of the day, we visited MALBA, the Museum of Latin Art in Buenos Aires. The museum was dedicated to the African population in Brazil, who suffered from slavery. Many pieces of art are rotated, while some remain in the museum. However, the main artist of the museum was Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist who experienced many trials throughout her life. When she was sixteen years old, she was on a bus ride which crashed into a streetcar. As a result, a steel pole pierced her abdomen, destroying her reproductive organs. Unfortunately, she lived part of her life in a wheel chair and when she desired to have children, she experienced two miscarriages. Hence, majority of her art exemplifies the sadness that plagued her.