QS Dexeus University Hospital

About the Healthcare Provider

Dexeus University Hospital is located in an exceptional point in the city of Barcelona.

Also known as the 'Knowledge Hospital', it is the center of reference in many of its specialties, being one of the first private university centers in all of Spain.

The Dexeus University Hospital of Barcelona offers first-rate medical and surgical assistance in all specialties, highlighting among them Obstetrics and Gynecology, Traumatology and Pediatrics. The center has a solid team of more than 450 medical professionals and incorporates the latest functional and technological advances typical of the leading medical centers. Today, it has established itself as a deeply human hospital, focused on the development of medicine, research and training for postgraduates and MIR applicants.

An example is the accreditation as ‘Children's Friend Hospital’, which the center received in 2002, being the first private hospital to obtain this certificate. A Spanish initiative promoted by UNICEF, which refers to the support, protection and promotion of breastfeeding.

Every year, 49,000 hospital stays are registered at Dexeus University Hospital, more than 85,000 emergencies are treated (about 230 daily), more than 10,000 surgical interventions are performed, more than 2,500 deliveries and some 50 clinical trials are carried out. In addition, the center has a MIR Program in Anesthesiology, Obstetrics / Gynecology and Traumatology / Orthopedics.

Technology

Hospital Universitari Dexeus Barcelona offers first-rate medical and surgical assistance in all specialties.

The center has a solid team of more than 450 doctors and incorporates the latest functional and technological advances typical of the leading medical centers.

Among all the elements that improve medical and surgical care, the Ackerman Clinicom 21 patient-nurse communication channel stands out; the Picture Archiving and Communicating System, which allows the Integration of all images, delivered on CD,
web visualization and teleradiology between the group's hospitals; the 64 crown TAC Scanner; the two magnetic resonance imaging equipment; PET-CT; SPECT; digital operating rooms; the cardiac surgery operating rooms as well as the hemodynamic room.

Transfusion Accreditation Service

The Transfusion Service of the General Laboratory of the Dexeus University Hospital is certified by the Spanish Committee for Accreditation of Blood Transfusions.

The Dexeus University Hospital Nuclear Medicine department has received accreditation of excellence from the European Association of Nuclear Medicine Research Ltd (EARL)