Healthcare compliance: pioneer experience in a public hospital

The compliance's role in the mitigation of judicial demands

“…Since 2018, the HCFMUSP has a Compliance Board, having been the first public hospital in Brazil to have this type of care. Its purpose was to serve as an information disseminator in order to raise awareness of all professionals through training, educational guidance, and support related to issues involving the behavior within ethical and bioethical principles, conflicts of interest, and possible legal and administrative consequences derived from actions in the performance of its voluntary functions, thus for the maintenance of quality in the attendance to the users, fair application of the medical resources, and, at the same time, the observance of the principles of public administration 8 .…”