BuurtzorgT in the media
The psychiatrist, working in the new mental health service
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How the ambulantization in the mental health sector is stagnating, while money is left on the shelf
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Labels? Treatment rooms? This
neighborhood psychiatrist would rather go to the
park to eat ice cream with you
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Buurtzorgt begins pilot with Virtual reality treatment
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/buurtzorgt_buurtzorgt-blikopener-therapieland-activity-6866072758602743808-Z8lR Recently, #BuurtzorgT started a Virtual Reality (VR) pilot of #Blikopener #Therapieland. Hereby 17 teams, including 17 attention...
Psychiatrist and BuurtzorgT founder Nico Moleman advocates home-based mental health care
The fact that the mental health sector is shifting towards treating milder problems is a thorn in his side. He calls specialization 'grandstanding' and does not believe in the current 'circus of control'. With BuurtzorgT, co-founder and...
Pallas Café: Steward Ownership
The Pallas Cafés of Movimento started again on Thursday September 16th. In the beautiful ambiance of Castle Montfoort, Bas van Riet Paap, director at BuurtzorgT, enthusiastically took professionals from care and welfare into the subject of Steward...
Mental health care without waiting time
During the corona crisis, waiting lists for mental health care have risen high. At BuurtzorgT in Leeuwarden, they are amazed by this. "We hardly have any waiting times." Read the full article (in Dutch)
BuurtzorgT wants to reduce waiting time in mental health care with this method
An untreated burnout that degenerates into depression, anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia, or an addiction problem. Care agency BuurtzorgT prefers to treat patients with these kinds of complaints in people's homes. "Because if you only visit the...
BuurtzorgT and Ecare build new electronic patient file for mental health care
Administrative ballast out and trust in professionals in. Under that motto, mental health organization BuurtzorgT and ICT-supplier Ecare will develop a new electronic patient file (EPD). The first sketches have been put on paper. In the summer of...
Bas van Riet Paap new director of BuurtzorgT
Bas van Riet Paap has joined BuurtzorgT as director. He was Head of Finance and Control at Dimence Groep and before that Manager of Health Care Procurement at Menzis. Read the full text article (in Dutch) here
Farewell to the classic shareholder: ‘Money must have a mission’
Vultures or body snatchers: shareholders are often accused of giving in to profit maximization. With steward ownership, however, they voluntarily relinquish their voting rights so that the mission remains central. How does that work exactly? Read...
‘BuurtzorgT takes ownership of itself’
BuurtzorgT has come up with a clever form of investment with investor Purpose Evergreen Capital. Not the newowner but BuurtzorgT itself ultimately runs off with the proceeds. Nico Moleman, managing director: "In addition toApart from an interest...
How BuurtzorgT partnered with an idealistic investor
The deal with idealistic German-Swiss investor Purpose Evergreen Capital and BuurtzorgT on Steward Ownership was preceded by months of intensive talks. Read the full article (in Dutch)
Steward Ownership as an Alternative to Private Equity
As an entrepreneur, it does not always feel good to sell your shares to a private equity party. Doubt arises at the thought that the social soul of the company is being transferred to a party whose basic objective is profit maximization. More and...
How To Rapidly Scale A Mission-Driven Company Without Selling Out
"What if we don’t want return-hungry investors as shareholders in our company?" This is a question we often get asked, especially at flourishing start-ups. They are afraid that money motivated investors will harm their progressive, mission-driven...
BuurtzorgT uses Steward Ownership as a smart form of investment
BuurtzorgT is the first care organization in the world to use the ownership structure Steward Ownership as a smart form of investment. The idealistic German-Swiss investor Purpose Evergreen Capital pays millions of euros for new ownership shares,...
Steward ownership: a meaningful organizational structure
BuurtzorgT has taken ownership of itself. In doing so, BuurtzorgT, together with Purpose Evergeen Capital, has developed a unique structure in which the organization is not only self-managing, but also owns itself. Read the full article (in Dutch)
BuurtzorgT sells itself, but gets its own shares
Rapid growth and success is what every entrepreneur wants. But it also comes with worries. At mental health care provider BuurtzorgT, founded in 2013 by Jos de Blok and Nico Moleman, rapid growth led to a chronic shortage of working capital. They...
Interested mental health institutions in tackling waiting lists in Rotterdam
Many institutions are interested in the "Rotterdam approach" of health insurer VGZ to (almost) solve the waiting lists in the mental health sector in one fell swoop. Mental health-suppliers in North Brabant and Limburg are considering adopting the...
On a home visit by bicycle
After his education, Chris de Bruijn was looking for a workplace where there was room for the most important values in his work: innovation and adventure. He found it at BuurtzorgT. Since I no longer work behind a desk, I have started to see...
BuurtzorgT and health insurer VGZ join forces to tackle mental health waiting lists
Health insurer VGZ and BuurtzorgT are going to tackle the waiting lists in the mental health sector together. They let us know this as a result of the broadcast of TV show Radar Monday night about these waiting lists. BuurtzorgT is the mental...
Jos de Blok lyrical about contract health insurance VGZ with BuurtzorgT
For the first time, BuurtzorgT has a contract with a health insurer for providing specialized mental health care to patients living in the district. VGZ and BuurtzorgT have, on the basis of equality and trust, concluded a partnership. This is the...
Nico Moleman turns mental health care on its head
BuurtzorgT offers second-line mental health care in a radically different way. Not in clinics, but in people's homes. For75% of the rate we can offer high-quality care'. This says director and co-founder Nico Moleman of BuurtzorgT in the July issue...
BuurtzorgT wil familieleden als toezichthouder
BuurtzorgT werkt met familieorganisatie Ypsilon aan een nieuwe vorm van toezicht. Tot nu toe is het ongebruikelijk dat patiënten en hun naasten een positie hebben in het toezicht van ggz-instellingen. Nico Moleman van BuurtzorgT en Jan Zandijk van...
BuurtzorgT en De Nieuwe GGZ rekenen af met bureaucratie
BuurtzorgT sluit zich als elfde instelling aan bij de beweging De Nieuwe GGZ, die zich sterk maakt voor ontmantelingvan de bureaucratie in de ggz. Bestuurder Nico Moleman van BuurtzorgT: ‘De Nieuwe GGZ predikt wat BuurtzorgTuitvoert. We werken...