Milosrdní bratia

Milosrdní bratia is a faith-based organisation based in Bratislava, Slovakia working on health, elderly care, disability +5 more.

Milosrdní bratia (Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, Slovak branch) is a Catholic religious order providing hospital care, social services and support to people in need in Slovakia and abroad. In Bratislava it runs a university hospital with polyclinic, a pharmacy and an outpatient network, and it operates a home for people facing material hardship and homelessness in the city. The order also runs social service homes in Spišské Podhradie and Skalica, and provides care for elderly, disabled, addicted and mentally ill people, alongside food and material aid. Its work is grounded in Christian charity and the principle of hospitality, and it welcomes non-members as volunteers. The order's hospital operates in cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic. The hospital is run through a separate commercial entity, while the order's charitable activities are carried out under the religious order.