Qualisalva

What Qualisalva does

Qualisalva (legal name: QualiSalva - Serviços Médicos) is a privately held Brazilian emergency medical services company founded in 2002 by Herbert Quaresma de Azevedo and headquartered in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul. The company pioneered private mobile emergency care in Brazil prior to the establishment of the federal SAMU service, building a fleet of ambulances and motorcycle response units (motolâncias) supported by a 24-hour emergency call center, and is the only operator in Mato Grosso do Sul approved by SIBEM and SIEM regulatory systems. Its core product is the Plano de Proteção à Vida, a monthly subscription health protection plan bundled with structured telemedicine, clinic services (QualiClínica - family medicine, pediatrics), dental care (QualiSalva Odontologia), and extended travel protection, billed via recurring credit card.

The company monetizes through four primary revenue streams: individual and family subscriptions (Plano de Proteção à Vida), corporate plans (Área Protegida for on-premise emergency coverage and Funcionário Protegido for employee benefit programs), pay-as-you-go patient transport services including inter-municipal, interstate, and neonatal removals, and event medical staffing with mobile ICUs. Customer acquisition is sales-led and direct-to-consumer via WhatsApp, phone, and a website storefront, with the company operating exclusively within the Campo Grande urban perimeter. The company reports over 800,000 cumulative attendances, a 90%+ on-site resolution rate, and a core team tenure exceeding 25 years, with leadership held by founder Herbert Quaresma de Azevedo, Administrative and Financial Director Karla Ferreira Vieira, and Medical Director Augusto Rezende de Azevedo (CRM 13646). No external funding, M&A activity, or institutional ownership is disclosed, and the company remains founder-controlled with 51-100 employees.

Name

Qualisalva

Legal name

QualiSalva - Serviços Médicos

Website

https://qualisalva.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Emergency Medical Services

NAICS

Ambulatory Health Care Services (621), Nursing and Residential Care Facilities (623)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Paramedicine & Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH/CP) Programs (HLAFANAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Nurse Triage & Clinical Call-Center Teletriage Platforms (HLALAJAC), Medical Assistance & Telemedicine for Travelers (THACANAE)

Keywords

• Emergency medical services
• Mobile healthcare services
• Medical protection plans
• Patient transport services
• Corporate health benefits

Headquarters

HQ city

Campo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Plano de Proteção à Vida (Health Protection Plan): Monthly subscription-based health protection plan offering emergency care, clinical consultations, telemedicine, and dental services. Payment processed via recurring credit card.
2. Patient Removals/Transport Services: Programmable patient transport services including inter-hospital, intramunicipal, intermunicipal, and interstate transfers. Available to both plan members and non-members.
3. Event Protection Services: Medical staffing and emergency coverage for events of all types and sizes, configured according to client needs
4. Corporate Plans (Área Protegida and Funcionário Protegido): Business-focused health protection plans providing emergency coverage for employees, clients, and third parties at company premises or city-wide

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Qualisalva provides subscription-based emergency and urgent medical protection plans (Plano de Proteção à Vida) for individuals, families and corporate clients in Campo Grande, Brazil. The core offering combines mobile emergency response via equipped ambulances and motorcycle paramedic units (motolâncias), a 24-hour emergency call center, structured telemedicine, clinic services (family medicine, pediatrics, dentistry), patient transport (inter-municipal, interstate, neonatal), and corporate employee and area protection programs.

Product overview

QualiSalva is a Brazilian emergency and urgent medical assistance company operating as a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core product is the Plano de Proteção à Vida (Life Protection Plan), a subscription-based healthcare plan that provides emergency response, telemedicine, clinic services (QualiClínica with family doctor and specialists including pediatrics and dentistry), and travel protection. The company also offers standalone services including patient transport/removals (inter-municipal and interstate), event medical protection with mobile ICUs, and corporate solutions (Área Protegida and Funcionário Protegido). Supporting infrastructure includes ambulance services, motorcycle paramedic units (motolâncias), and the QualiFicar professional training program. The company operates exclusively for its 'PROTEGIDOS' (protected members) in Campo Grande, MS.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• QualiClínica: Clinic providing family medicine, pediatrics, and dentistry services included in the Life Protection Plan
• QualiSalva Odontologia
• QualiFicar
• Área Protegida
• Funcionário Protegido

Products and services

• Plano de Proteção à Vida (Life Protection Plan) Subscription-based comprehensive emergency medical protection plan for individuals and families, combining rapid ambulance and motolância (motorcycle paramedic) response, a 24-hour emergency call center, telemedicine, clinic and dental services, and travel protection, billed monthly via recurring credit card.
• QualiClínica In-clinic medical care services including family medicine and various medical specialties such as pediatrics, available to Plano de Proteção à Vida members, providing scheduled outpatient consultations within the QualiSalva ecosystem.
• QualiSalva Odontologia Dental care services bundled into the Plano de Proteção à Vida, including cleaning and evaluation appointments with no additional cost to subscription members.
• Telemedicina Estruturada (Structured Telemedicine) Structured telephone-based telemedicine service providing complete medical consultations directly between protected members and QualiSalva doctors, beyond simple dialogue triage, available 24/7 as part of the Plano de Proteção à Vida.
• Remoções (Patient Transport Service) Scheduled medical patient transport service covering inter-municipal and interstate travel, including specialized neonatal transport with incubators and life support equipment. Available to Plano de Proteção à Vida members at differentiated rates and to non-members on a pay-as-you-go basis with a minimum 3-hour advance booking requirement.
• Proteção em Eventos (Event Medical Protection) Event medical coverage service providing qualified healthcare professionals and mobile ICU units for events of all types and sizes, configured per client needs to ensure on-site emergency response and patient transport at events.
• Área Protegida (Protected Area - Corporate) Corporate subscription plan ensuring immediate specialized clinical and traumatic emergency care for clients, employees, and third parties on company premises, designed for businesses seeking rapid on-site medical intervention and reduced liability exposure.
• Funcionário Protegido (Protected Employee) Corporate employee benefit program providing 24-hour emergency medical protection within Campo Grande's urban perimeter, aggregating Plano de Proteção à Vida benefits for each enrolled employee as part of an employer-sponsored package.
• Ambulâncias (Ambulance Service) Mobile emergency ambulance response service using equipped ambulances compliant with CFM Resolution 1.671/03 and staffed by qualified medical professionals, delivering on-site emergency care to protected members and corporate clients across Campo Grande.
• Motolâncias (Motorcycle Paramedic Service) Motorcycle paramedic rapid-response service for agile assistance in urban environments, providing discreet and quick emergency response while enabling detection of premonitory signs of emergencies in apparently low-complexity situations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90%+ of emergency attendances resolved on-site without need for hospital transfer
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SIBEM (Sistema Integrado Brasileiro de Emergências Médicas)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerQualisalva is the only company in Mato Grosso do Sul approved in SIBEM, the Brazilian Integrated Medical Emergency System, which attests to excellence in emergency care service standards.
• SIEM (Sistema Internacional de Emergência Médica)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerQualisalva is the only company in Mato Grosso do Sul approved in SIEM, the International Medical Emergency System, demonstrating international quality standards in emergency medical services.
• IPED/APAE Campo GrandeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative relationship with hospitals and health centers for patient transfers, working specifically with IPED/APAE for newborn screening referrals and pediatric care coordination.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Doctoralia (Docplanner): Doctoralia is a leading Brazilian and LatAm online doctor-booking and telehealth platform. It overlaps with QualiSalva's QualiClínica and Telemedicina Estruturada on the digital consultation front, and represents the kind of digital-native competitor QualiSalva faces as consumer healthcare moves online.
• Beep Saúde: Beep Saúde is a Brazilian digital health platform offering on-demand home nursing, vaccinations, exams, and telemedicine. As an emerging player in on-demand, app-based in-home care, it is a relevant adjacent competitor to QualiSalva's mobile response and home-visit positioning, especially in the B2C subscription segment.
• Memed: Memed is a Brazilian digital health platform offering e-prescriptions, telehealth, and clinical decision support used by tens of thousands of doctors. It is an emerging player whose telemedicine and clinical workflow capabilities intersect with QualiSalva's structured telemedicine and clinic modules.

Broad incumbents

• International SOS: International SOS is a global provider of medical assistance, travel risk management, and duty-of-care services, including emergency medical response and telemedicine for travelers. QualiSalva's extended travel protection and interstate patient transport features overlap with International SOS's medical-assistance and traveler telemedicine lines.
• Unimed: Unimed is Brazil's largest healthcare cooperative system, offering health plans, hospital networks, and 24-hour emergency channels nationwide. It is a broad incumbent with overlapping emergency response and ambulatory capabilities, though at much greater scale and without QualiSalva's mobile-only subscription focus.
• Hapvida NotreDame Intermédica: Hapvida is one of Brazil's largest health plan and hospital operators with an integrated network model. As a broad incumbent, it competes with QualiSalva for corporate health-benefit budgets and ambulatory care relationships, but is many times the size and operates on a payer-provider model.
• Amil (UnitedHealth Group Brazil): Amil is a major Brazilian health plan operator owned by UnitedHealth Group, with broad ambulatory, hospital, and emergency services across Brazil. It overlaps with QualiSalva on the corporate health-benefit side and on emergency/urgent care channels, but at vastly greater scale.
• Falck (Denmark): Falck is a global ambulance, emergency medical services, and occupational health operator with a long-established subscription and contract model in Europe and the Americas. It is a broad incumbent reference point for QualiSalva's mobile EMS and corporate protection offerings, though at far greater geographic and capital scale.
• SulAmérica Saúde: SulAmérica is a large Brazilian health plan operator with corporate group-health products and 24-hour service channels. It competes with QualiSalva for corporate health-benefit and emergency response budgets, though it is a payer-first incumbent rather than a mobile-EMS specialist.

Direct peers

• Acudir (Emergencias SA): Acudir is a private emergency medical and home-care subscription service operating across Argentina with a model very similar to QualiSalva's: recurring monthly plans, ambulance and motorcycle response units, telemedicine, and event coverage. It is the closest international analog to QualiSalva's Plano de Proteção à Vida.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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