Bellvitge University Hospital

Summary

Bellvitge University Hospital is the top-class and largest healthcare facility in Spain- located in Barcelona. They provide patient-centric care to patients and research or teaching activities to healthcare professionals and students. They are a part of the Catalan Health Institute, offering a wide range of diagnoses, interventions, and treatments in Spain. Moreover, they are complemented by state-of-the-art technologies, modern infrastructure, and innovative equipment. This multispecialty hospital is recognized as one of the four best hospitals in Spain by an independent agency. Lastly, they received a distinction by European Reference Network.

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Details

General Outlook

• The Bellvitge University Hospital is the largest and leading medicare facility located in the Southwest of Barcelona-L'Hospitalet del Llobregat City.
• The high-complexity medical center provides excellent care, research, and teaching activity to the people of Spain.
• The third-level healthcare center belongs to the Catalan Health Institute as they perform a high volume of diagnosis, intervention, and treatment in Spain.
• The tertiary referral hospital offers a wide range of medical specialties like neurology, cardiology, orthopedics, transplant, and much more except pediatrics or obstetrics.
• They are also considered one of the best hospitals in the world ranked by the Newsweek 2020-2021 Survey.
• Moreover, they are recognized as one of the four best hospitals in Spain by an independent agency.

Fundaments

• The great healthcare facility of Bellvitge University Hospital has a total bed capacity of more than 1000.
• They are complemented with state-of-the-art technologies, modern infrastructure, and innovative equipment that give roughly annual figures of;
• 20,000 major surgeries
• 37,000 discharged
• Covers 2 million inhabitants
• They have several areas of expertise that perform complex yet innovative procedures every day both internationally and nationally that include;
• Robotic Surgery (First hospital in Spain to have Robotic Surgery Room)
• Cancer Care (Recognized for Highly complex oncological surgeries)
• Heart Area (Applies innovative approaches for successful treatment)
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Transplants and Coordination (Pioneer in Liver transplant)
• Infectious, autoimmune, endocrine, and other minority diseases (National benchmark for treatment)
• Femtosecond Laser Eye Surgery
• Complex Endoscopy and intervention in diagnostic imaging (Considered as European benchmark )
• This complex medical center performs different diagnostic tests for various conditions. Some of them include cardiac catheterization, MRI,  computed tomography, electrocardiogram, mammography, echobronchoscopy (EBUS), and many others

Specialty Medical Services for Foreigners

The top-botch quality Bellvitge University Hospital provides various medical services for the prevention and treatment of domestic and foreign patients. They are as follows;

• Accident and Emergency
• Allergology
• Cardiology
• Endocrinology and Nutrition
• General Surgery
• Gynecology
• Internal Medicine
• Nephrology
• Nuclear Medicine
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology
• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
• Preventive Medicine
• Rehabilitation
• Thoracic Surgery
• Urology

Language Spoken

• Catalan
• English
• Spanish

Approachability for Foreigners

• The nearest airport for Bellvitge University Hospital is Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport. The total distance is about 8.8 km that takes 10-15 minutes to reach the hospital via road in a car, taxi, and town car.
• Moreover, there are many international standard hotels are present around the hospital that provides a wide range of services and facilities for foreigners.

Recognitions and Acknowledgments

• The Spanish National Health System of the Spanish Ministry of Health accredited CSUR accreditation to Rare neuromuscular diseases, Cross-kidney transplantation, Multiple sclerosis, Orbital tumors, and many others.
• The Clinical Expertise Units (UEC) Accreditation recognized group of rare diseases that include Lysosomal diseases, Systemic autoimmune diseases, Immune diseases, and Neuromuscular diseases.
• Other Excellence of Accreditation, Recognition, and Acknowledgment includes;
• European accreditation as a center of excellence in PET/CT diagnosis
• The ESOC (European Stroke Organization) as a Comprehensive Stroke Care Cente
• European Centre of Expertise in Gynaecological Surgery by the ESGO

Accreditations

European Reference Network ERN

European Reference Networks (ERN) are virtual networks of researchers and professionals with a high degree of specialization in low-prevalence diseases, specific areas, and complex pathologies. The main goal is to find the diagnosis and treatment for patients with rare diseases throughout Europe, thus contributing to the study of these pathologies and offering the highest quality of care.