Agrupamento de Escolas de Porto de Mós

What Agrupamento de Escolas de Porto de Mós does

Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Porto de Mós (SCMPM) is a Portuguese Instituição Particular de Solidariedade Social (IPSS) founded in 1516, providing an integrated portfolio of social, healthcare, educational, and community-support services to the municipality of Porto de Mós in the Leiria district. Its service mix comprises residential and day care for the elderly (ERPI / Lar and Centro de Dia), home support services (SAD) delivered by a 7-professional mobile team in the São João and São Pedro parishes, a Unidade de Cuidados Continuados Integrados (UCCIPM) with 30 RNCCI public beds and 10 private beds, a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center with 2 physiatrists, early-childhood services (Creche capacity of 92 at Jardim de Infância plus 42 at the new O Rosmaninho facility in Corredoura, and Pré-Escolar for 50 children), a Social Canteen providing 17 daily meals, and the Pessoas 2030 food-assistance program co-financed by the European Social Fund Plus.

SCMPM is funded primarily through recurring cooperation agreements with Portuguese public-sector entities — Instituto da Segurança Social, Ministério da Educação, Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS), and additional health subsystems (Multicare, SAMS, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Advancecare, Medicare, and the municipal RNA health card). Supplementary revenue comes from approximately 468 paying brother members, private patient fees at the rehabilitation center and UCCI private rooms, and EU/State co-financing for food-assistance programming. Pricing for end-users is set according to internal regulations and the beneficiary's economic situation, ranging from free or symbolic fees (e.g., social canteen, SAD) to monthly participation values for residential and day care.

Operationally, the institution runs five distinct physical sites across Porto de Mós and Corredoura and employs specialized clinical staff including physiatrists and a trained physiotherapy team. Its technology footprint is limited to a digital application used by pedagogical teams to log daily child routines (sleep, feeding, hygiene); there is no disclosed use of AI/ML, proprietary models, or advanced data infrastructure. The institution is privately organized as a non-profit IPSS, governed by a Mesa Administrativa, Conselho Fiscal, and Assembleia Geral, with a Provedor as primary representative, and is not a venture-backed, PE-backed, or publicly listed entity.

Name

Agrupamento de Escolas de Porto de Mós

Legal name

Santa Casa da Misericordia de Porto de Mos

Website

https://santacasa-portodemos.pt

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Porto de Mós (SCMPM) is a 500-year-old Portuguese IPSS providing elderly residential and day care, home support, long-term care, rehabilitation, early-childhood education, and food-assistance services to vulnerable residents of Porto de Mós municipality.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Welfare and Healthcare Services

NAICS

Continuing Care Retirement Communities (623311), Community Food Services (624210), Emergency and Other Relief Services (62423)

SIC

Services-Skilled Nursing Care Facilities (8051), Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Nonprofit / Faith-Based CCRCs (HLADAEAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Single-Site CCRCs (HLADAEAE)

Keywords

• Social welfare services
• Elderly residential care
• Early childhood education
• Home care services
• Physical rehabilitation services

Headquarters

HQ city

Porto de Mós

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Social Security Cooperation Agreements: The institution operates under cooperation agreements with the Instituto da Segurança Social (Social Security), which provides funding for various social services including creche, elderly care, day care, and home support services. Fees are calculated based on the economic situation of beneficiaries.
2. Ministry of Education Funding: Funding from the Ministério da Educação for educational services including creche and pre-school education programs.
3. Health System Agreements (SNS and Subsystems): The Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center operates under agreements with SNS (National Health Service) and health subsystems including Multicare, SAMS, Caixa Geral Depósitos, Advancecare, and Medicare for physiotherapy and rehabilitation services.
4. Member Quotas: The institution has approximately 468 brothers (members) who contribute annual quotas. These membership fees support the institution's operations.
5. Private/Particular Services: The UCCIPM has 10 private beds for internment (outside RNCCI public funding). The ERPI offers optional services such as hairdresser, podology, transport and physiotherapy that may have additional costs.
6. Private Patient Payments: The rehabilitation center also treats patients on a private basis (not covered by insurance or SNS), generating revenue from out-of-pocket payments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Porto de Mós (SCMPM) is a private social solidarity institution (IPSS) founded in 1516 that delivers a comprehensive portfolio of community social services. It operates elderly residential and day care (ERPI/Lar, Centro de Dia), home support services (SAD), continuous integrated care (UCCI), a physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic, early childhood education (Creche and Pré-Escolar), a social canteen, and the Pessoas 2030 food assistance program for the municipality of Porto de Mós in Portugal.

Product overview

Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Porto de Mós (SCMPM) is a Private Social Solidarity Institution founded in 1516, providing a comprehensive portfolio of social services. The institution operates as an integrated service network comprising elderly residential care (ERPI/Lar), day care (Centro de Dia), home support services (SAD), continuing care (UCCI), physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic, childcare (Creche), pre-school education (Pré-Escolar), social cafeteria (Cantina Social), and food aid programs (Pessoas 2030). All services are coordinated under one organizational structure focused on supporting vulnerable populations in Porto de Mós municipality.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ERPI (Lar) Estrutura Residencial para Pessoas Idosas (ERPI) provides permanent accommodation for elderly persons in double rooms with private bathroom, including meals, hygiene care, medical/nursing services, laundry, and sociocultural activities.
• Centro de Dia Day care service for elderly persons providing meals, transport, hygiene care, medication administration, laundry, religious assistance, psychosocial support, and sociocultural activities from 9h00 to 17h30.
• Serviços de Apoio Domiciliário (SAD) Home support service providing meal delivery, personal hygiene care, laundry treatment, household hygiene, medication assistance, and psychosocial support to elderly or dependent persons in S. João and S. Pedro parishes, delivered by a mobile team of 7 professionals with vehicles.
• Cuidados Continuados Integrados (UCCI) Unidade de Cuidados Continuados Integrados providing Long Duration and Maintenance care (up to 180 days) for persons with chronic illness and varying dependency levels, including medical care, nursing, psychosocial support, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy.
• Centro de Medicina Física e Reabilitação Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic offering physiotherapy services with 2 physiatrist doctors and a physiotherapy team, operating Monday to Friday 9h-19h, with agreements with SNS, CGD, Multicare, SAMS, and other health subsystems.
• Creche (Jardim de Infância) Childcare service for children aged 4-36 months with capacity of 92 vacancies at the Jardim de Infância location and 42 children at the O Rosmaninho Creche in Corredoura, operating 7h30-19h00 on weekdays.
• Educação Pré-Escolar Pre-school education for 50 children aged 3-5/6 years distributed across 2 heterogeneous groups, with pedagogical and socio-educational activities including psychology services, operating 7h30-19h00, with daily routines tracked via a digital application for sleep, feeding, and hygiene.
• Cantina Social Social cafeteria providing daily meals to individuals and families in socioeconomic vulnerability, part of the Emergency Food Program (PEA) with a cooperation agreement for 17 daily meals.
• Pessoas 2030 Food distribution program for economically disadvantaged persons, providing direct food basket distribution (dry, refrigerated, frozen products) and indirect distribution via electronic social cards, with budget management and waste prevention training.
• Voluntariado Volunteer program offering opportunities in social support, healthcare assistance, animation, kitchen, sewing, maintenance, and laundry services for community members.

Quantifiable outcome

• Serves elderly and dependent populations across 30 RNCCI beds plus 10 private beds, preventing institutional gaps in Porto de Mós municipality
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Centro Distrital de Segurança Social de LeiriacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 22 July 2012Signed cooperation agreement on July 22, 2012 for the community Social Canteen program under the Solidária Network of Social Canteens and Emergency Food Program.
• Instituto da Segurança Social (Social Security)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMain governmental partner providing funding and regulatory oversight for social services. SCMPM operates under cooperation agreements with the Centro Distrital de Segurança Social de Leiria for services including creche, elderly care, and social assistance programs. The Social Security also refers clients requiring continuous care through the RNCCI system.
• Ministério da Educação (Ministry of Education)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment partner providing funding and regulatory framework for educational services including creche and pre-school education. SCMPM operates educational services under the regulatory oversight of the Ministry of Education.
• SNS (Serviço Nacional de Saúde)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational Health Service provides funding and referrals for physiotherapy and rehabilitation services. Citizens need family doctor referral (credential) for first consultation in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
• MulticareminorOthersHealth insurance provider with agreement for physiotherapy and rehabilitation services at SCMPM's Physical Medicine Center.
• SAMS (Sindicato dos Bancários)minorOthersHealth subsystem for banking sector employees with agreement for rehabilitation services.
• Caixa Geral de DepósitosminorOthersState banking group's health insurance with agreement for rehabilitation services.
• AdvancecareminorOthersHealth insurance provider with agreement for rehabilitation services.
• MedicareminorOthersHealth insurance provider with agreement for rehabilitation services.
• RNA - Cartão de Saúde do Município de Porto de MósminorOthersMunicipal health card program for Porto de Mós residents with agreement for rehabilitation services.
• Equipa de Coordenação Local (ECL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal Coordination Team that receives and evaluates proposals for admission to the RNCCI (Rede Nacional de Cuidados Continuados Integrados) from health centers and hospitals.
• Câmara Municipal de Porto de MósminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMunicipal council may participate in identifying and referring families in economic vulnerability for social canteen and other support services.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Porto: Porto's Misericórdia operating a comparable suite of social responses — elderly residential care, continuing care, crèches and community programs under the same canonical IPSS framework. Highly comparable to SCMPM because the operating model, funding mechanisms (Segurança Social agreements) and service taxonomy mirror SCMPM almost exactly.
• Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa: The flagship Lisbon Misericórdia and largest IPSS in Portugal, operating hospitals, elderly care, social services and education. Direct peer because it shares the Misericórdia canon-law governance model, IPSS status, and broad social-solidarity service portfolio that SCMPM also operates at a smaller municipal scale.
• Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Braga: Regional Misericórdia in northern Portugal providing ERPI, day care, home support, crèches and rehabilitation under the same IPSS / Segurança Social framework. Directly comparable to SCMPM as another mid-sized, multi-service municipal Misericórdia.
• Centro Social e Paroquial de Nossa Senhora da Estrela: Parish-based IPSS in Lisbon offering creche, elderly day care, home support and community support under the same Segurança Social cooperation-agreement framework as SCMPM. Comparable because it operates the same small-scale, multi-response IPSS model that SCMPM delivers in Porto de Mós.

Broad incumbents

• Cáritas Portuguesa: National Catholic social-action confederation operating emergency food, shelter, refugee and elderly-support programs across Portugal. Comparable to SCMPM's Cantina Social and Pessoas 2030 food-assistance activities and its faith-based community-welfare orientation, though Cáritas operates at national rather than municipal scale.
• Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa: Portuguese Red Cross delivering home support, elderly care, emergency social assistance and community health programs nationwide. Comparable to SCMPM's SAD home-support service and broader social-services portfolio, with similar public-funding exposure.
• Orpea Portugal: Major European private nursing-home and continuing-care operator with Portuguese facilities. Comparable to SCMPM's ERPI and UCCI offerings as a competitor in regulated elderly residential care, though Orpea serves a private-paying and higher-acuity segment at national scale.
• Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian — Acolhimento e Cuidados Continuados: Major Portuguese foundation running continuing care, palliative and elderly programs. Comparable to SCMPM's UCCI long-duration and maintenance service and broader elderly-care continuum, although Gulbenkian operates at foundation scale and across multiple regions.

Emerging players

• Grupo Ideia Social: Portuguese private operator running ERPI, day care and home-support services. Comparable to SCMPM's senior service lines as a competing operator in the same regulatory and funding environment, but with a private (rather than faith-based IPSS) governance model.

Regional players

• Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Alcobaça: Neighbouring Leiria-district Misericórdia serving Alcobaça municipality with ERPI, day care, crèches and social services. Comparable to SCMPM as a regional IPSS peer in the same district, sharing funding streams and beneficiary demographics but operating in an adjacent — not overlapping — catchment area.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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