The Quironsalud Dexeus University Hospital Barcelona, Spain is located in an exceptional point of the city of Barcelona, in the centre of the so-called "axis of knowledge", where the financial, university and research sectors come together, thus strengthening their pedagogical vocation. Also known as the "Hospital of Knowledge", it is a reference centre in many of its specialities, being one of the first private university centres in the whole of Spain.
Hospital Quironsalud Dexeus Barcelona offers medical and surgical care of the highest level in all specialties, including obstetrics and gynaecology, traumatology and paediatrics. The center has a solid team of more than 450 medical professionals and incorporates the latest functional and technological advances typical of the most advanced medical centers. It has now established itself as a profoundly humanistic hospital focused on the advancement of medicine, research, and the training of graduate students and MIR candidates. This is exemplified by the accreditation as a "Child Friendly Hospital" that the center obtained in 2002, being the first private hospital to receive this certification-a Spanish initiative promoted by UNICEF that addresses the support, protection and promotion of breastfeeding.
Dexeus University Hospital registers 49,000 hospital stays each year, handles more than 85,000 emergency cases (about 230 per day), performs more than 10,000 operations, more than 2,500 births and conducts about 50 clinical trials. In addition, the center has MIR programs in anesthesiology, obstetrics/gynecology, and trauma/orthopedics.
Facilities
The Quironsalud Dexeus Hospital has a hospital area of more than 50,000 square meters, where there are 126 individual rooms and 4 royal suites with all patient amenities. The facilities of Dexeus University Hospital are distributed according to the criteria of functionality and ease of movement. The centre has:
- 13 operating theatres equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, six of which are multi-profile
- Obstetric block with 7 delivery rooms
- 2 expansion halls
- 2 operating theatres, rooms and own emergency area
- Day hospital with 10 individual boxes
- Adult intensive care unit with 10 beds
- Neonatal intensive care unit with 21 beds (4 intensive care couches)
- 24-hour emergency department for both adults and children
- Endoscopy room
- Lithotripsy room
- Catheterization room
- Interventional Radiology Room
- Neonatal Unit
- Day Oncology Hospital
- Department of Nuclear Medicine
- Department of Diagnostic Imaging
- Radiotherapy
First-level medical and surgical care with the highest technology
Quironsalud Dexeus University Hospital Barcelona offers medical and surgical care of the highest level in all specialties. The centre has a solid team of over 450 doctors and incorporates the latest functional and technological advances typical of the most advanced medical centres.
Among all the elements that enhance medical and surgical care, the Ackerman Clinico 21 patient-nurse communication channel stands out; the image archiving and communication system that allows the integration of all imaging, CD delivery, web review and teleradiology between the group's hospitals; the state-of-the-art CT scanner the two MRI teams; PET-CT; SPECT; digital operating rooms; the cardiac surgery operating rooms as well as the catheterization room.
Quality indicators
- International accreditation of the Joint Commission
Dexeus University Hospital has received The Joint Commission's International Accreditation in 2021, the world's most demanding quality recognition in healthcare. In addition, the hospital has been recognised by the Joint International Commission as an academic hospital, the first centre in Catalonia to receive this international recognition.
- ISO quality certificate
All hospital services of Dexeus University Hospital have the international quality management certificate UNE-EN-ISO 9001:2015, certificate issued by DNV
- The first private hospital to earn the "Child Friendly Hospital" certification.
In 2002, Dexeus University Hospital was awarded the "Children's Friendly Hospital" certificate, a Spanish initiative promoted by UNICEF. This distinction recognizes the support, protection and promotion of breastfeeding.
- Environmental certification
Since 2010, the hospital has been certified for environmental management in accordance with the UNE EN ISO 14001:2015 standard.
TOP 20
In 2008, Dexeus Hospital was named as one of the "Best Hospitals and Private Clinics in Spain" for the sixth time, having won in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 in the eighth edition of the Top 20 Hospitals: Indicators of Excellence program.
Blood Transfusion Accreditation Service
The transfusion service of the general laboratory of the Dexeus University Hospital is certified by the Spanish Blood Transfusion Accreditation Committee.
The first Spanish hospital centre to be accredited by EARL
The Department of Nuclear Medicine at Dexeus Hospital has been awarded an accreditation of excellence by the European Association for Nuclear Medicine Research Ltd (EARL).
