Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
L'Antiga Esquerra de l'Eixample, Spain · built 1906
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, officially Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona (Catalan pronunciation: [uspiˈtal ˈklinik i pɾuinsiˈal də ərsəˈlonə]), is a university hospital founded in 1906 and based in Barcelona. It opened its doors on December 22 1906, with a capacity of 400 patients, some of which were moved from Hospital de la Santa Creu. It is currently part of the Catalan Health Service. It has been awarded by IASIST for 10 consecutive years as a top 20 hospital in Spain. A private study conducted in 2009 ranked it as one of the top four national and regional hospitals in Spain, including all public and private facilities. In 2020 it was ranked by Newsweek as the best hospital in Spain and one of the 25 best in the world. It is located on the left side of the Eixample and serves as a university hospital for the University of Barcelona Faculty of Medicine, with which it forms a functional unit. Due to its university character, its healthcare activity is complemented by teaching and medical research. The population assigned as a community hospital, together with Hospital Plató and the Clínica Sagrat Cor, is 540,000. It also works as a complex tertiary hospital, developing lines of activity for patients in Spain and internationally.
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