This study focuses on contact networks as methodological strategies for the National Humanization Policy (PNH). It reports on experience instituted at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), in which it was sought to identify humanization actions that arose through the formation of contact networks within the scope of the institution. HCPA's Humanization Work Group sought to structure a network that would encompass the largest possible number of sectors in the hospital, thus starting awareness-raising work within these sectors and seeking to promote actions convergent with the PNH proposals. It was observed that, from 2005 to today, several humanizing actions occurred in the various sectors involved, thereby demonstrating that the network device is a precious tool for the institution, since it provides indicators for PNH and favors interrelationships between the different players that seek to go beyond the difficulties of everyday hospital activity, to promote other means of healthcare practices.
Humanization of care; Healthcare policy; Community networks; Hospital care