these centres constitute an extended network for the primary care system offering maternity services intermediate care beds to avoid hospital admission or expedite early discharge ambulatory surgery rehabilitation speciality clinics such as pain management and diagnostics such as xrays the cais also hold workshops in order to support typical local ebais by comparing and discuss their performance indicators offering telemedicine and homevisits and by keeping a focus on preventive care in one of the cais established a local commission on domestic violence and most of its home visits were for health promotion and preventive care