University Hospital Complex of Pontevedra

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University Hospital Complex of Pontevedra
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Pontevedra Provincial Hospital
University Hospital Complex of Pontevedra
Geography
LocationGalicia, Spain
Coordinates 42°25′43.4″N8°36′53.4″W / 42.428722°N 8.614833°W / 42.428722; -8.614833 Coordinates: 42°25′43.4″N8°36′53.4″W / 42.428722°N 8.614833°W / 42.428722; -8.614833 (Pontevedra)
Organisation
Care system Concerted public & Private & Charity
Type Specialist
Affiliated university University of Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra Campus, Galician Healthcare Service
Services
Emergency department Yes
Specialitymultiple
History
Opened2012
Links
Website www.sergas.es/A-nosa-organizacion/Estrutura-da-Area-Sanitaria-de-Pontevedra-e-O-Salnes?idioma=es
Lists Hospitals in Spain

The University Hospital Complex of Pontevedra (CHOP) is a public health institution and a teaching hospital established in 2012 that provides health services to the specialized region of the city of Pontevedra in Spain. It depends on the Galician Healthcare Service, and consists of three hospitals and one specialty center.

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Location

The Montecelo Hospital is located on the outskirts of the city, in Mourente. The Provincial Hospital of Pontevedra is located in the heart of the city, at Doctor Loureiro Crespo Street, 2.

History

In 1439, Pontevedra had three hospitals: the Hospital Santiaguiño del Burgo, for poor pilgrims, the Hospital Virgen del Camino for lepers and, in A Moureira, the Hospital Gafos, located at the mouth of the river Gafos. [1] In the middle of that year, in 1439, D.ª Teresa Pérez Fiota, made a will to found a hospital to assist the poor, which would be called Hospital do Corpo de Deus, which, with time, would be known as Hospital of Corpus Christi and, later, in 1579, as Hospital San Juan de Dios, which would be demolished in 1896 to build in another part of the city a new hospital, the Provincial Hospital of Pontevedra.

The first major hospital in the city was the Provincial Hospital of Pontevedra . The decision to create this hospital was taken by the city council in 1890. In 1897, the first patients were accepted. In 1928 it was transferred to the Provincial Council of Pontevedra. At the hospital, preferably surgical, advanced operations were performed for its time. The hospital's doctors were of great importance in the life of the city. In 1936, the hospital was mainly used as a war hospital.

The second and largest hospital in the city is the Montecelo Hospital , established in 1973. It was inaugurated in May 1974 by the then Minister of Health, Licinio de la Fuente. [2]

The Galician Healthcare Service of the Galician Government decided to integrate these two hospitals into a hospital complex called Complejo Hospitalario de Pontevedra (CHOP) in 1996. [3]

The CHOP (Complejo Hospitalario de Pontevedra) was declared a University Hospital Complex (CHU) in November 2012. [4] The declaration as a University Hospital Complex (CHU) has allowed the hospitals of Pontevedra to offer courses in the University of Santiago de Compostela Medicine degree and other health science degrees such as Nursing or Physiotherapy, which are present on the Pontevedra Campus.

The Galician Government has launched the construction of a new hospital for the city of Pontevedra and its metropolitan area in 2020 with more specialities than the current one, including radiotherapy, nuclear medicine and neonatal and paediatric intensive care, and with a capacity of 724 beds. The new 10-storey hospital will be called Gran Montecelo. [5] [6]

Hospitals

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Montecelo Hospital entrance

The CHOP has two hospitals in Pontevedra city:

There is also a hospital in the Pontevedra health area:

In addition, the specialised medical centre or specialty centre Casa del Mar in the district of Mollavao in Pontevedra is attached to it.

The CHU of Pontevedra offers public health care to the population of the centre and north of the province of Pontevedra. The focus is on the following municipalities, in addition to the capital, Pontevedra: Barro, Bueu, Caldas de Reis, Campo Lameiro, Cerdedo-Cotobade, Cuntis, Forcarei, O Grove, A Lama, Marín, Meaño, Meis, Moraña, Poio, Ponte Caldelas, Portas, Sanxenxo, Soutomaior and Vilaboa. It is also a referral hospital for patients from the Salnés hospital, which is included in the Pontevedra health area. It includes the following municipalities: Cambados, Catoira, Illa de Arousa, Ribadumia, Vilagarcía de Arousa and Vilanova de Arousa.

The University Hospital Complex of Pontevedra is a reference hospital for more than 300,000 patients. Its staff is made up of 2,608 workers. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "El Hospital de San Juan de Dios". Ponteedra Viva (in Spanish). 13 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "«Cuando abrió, Montecelo era un hospital de mucha categoría»". Ponteedra Viva (in Spanish). 22 July 2012.
  3. ↑ "De Residencia Sanitaria a Hospital de Montecelo". Faro (in Spanish). 24 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "El Complexo Hospitalario de Pontevedra (CHOP) declarado Hospital Universitario". Complejo Hospitalario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 30 November 2012.
  5. ↑ "El nuevo concurso del Gran Montecelo priorizará a quienes rebajen los plazos". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 4 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "La Xunta autoriza la segunda licitación del Gran Montecelo por 130 millones". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 27 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "La red de hospitales públicos suma 27.471 trabajadores y 7.501 camas". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 5 July 2015.
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