Overview

• The Servizo Galego de Saúde announced on September 1 that José Manuel Olivares replaces Esther Casal Rodríguez, who resigned and requested a return to her post in Admissions and Documentation.
• As director asistencial, Olivares will organize care across the Área Sanitaria de Vigo, overseeing Hospital Care, Primary Care, Nursing and Support Processes.
• Olivares has led Psychiatry in Vigo since 2014, advancing early psychosis programs, a suicide prevention unit and the 2023 opening of a new psychiatric hospitalization unit at Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro.
• Faro de Vigo reports that psychiatrist Marta López García will assume the Psychiatry service in an acting capacity following Olivares’s promotion.
• Covering 26 municipalities, the role is considered the number-two medical position for the region’s hospitals and health centers, with Sergas framing the move as part of a broader push for quality and system transformation.