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Hospital beds. By type. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Hospital beds. By type. Counties, areas and provinces 2003
Acute admission beds Sociosanitary beds Psychiatric beds Incubators Totalbeds Beds per 1,000 inh. Acute beds per 1,000 inh.
Alt Camp 91 135 0 1 227 6.11 2.45
Alt Empordà 203 154 0 0 357 3.39 1.93
Alt Penedès 124 214 0 2 340 3.94 1.44
Alt Urgell 52 30 20 6 108 5.57 2.68
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Anoia 210 208 0 0 418 4.27 2.15
Bages 611 308 24 6 949 5.93 3.82
Baix Camp 315 234 1,145 9 1,703 11.22 2.07
Baix Ebre 342 250 0 0 592 8.62 4.98
Baix Empordà 101 50 0 0 151 1.39 0.93
Baix Llobregat 746 794 1,712 4 3,256 4.53 1.04
Baix Penedès 11 65 0 0 76 1.11 0.16
Barcelonès 9,055 2,874 752 208 12,889 6.09 4.28
Berguedà 91 146 0 0 237 6.14 2.36
Cerdanya 29 60 0 2 91 6.08 1.94
Conca de Barberà 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Garraf 185 245 0 3 433 3.75 1.60
Garrigues 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Garrotxa 82 70 0 0 152 3.11 1.68
Gironès 769 204 579 23 1,575 10.68 5.21
Maresme 618 612 57 5 1,292 3.46 1.66
Montsià 12 0 0 0 12 0.20 0.20
Noguera 0 106 0 0 106 3.02 0.00
Osona 354 232 0 10 596 4.43 2.63
Pallars Jussà 41 20 0 2 63 5.10 3.32
Pallars Sobirà 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Pla d'Urgell 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Pla de l'Estany 35 65 0 0 100 3.82 1.34
Priorat 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Ribera d'Ebre 78 38 0 4 120 5.53 3.59
Ripollès 64 28 0 0 92 3.57 2.48
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Segrià 787 293 126 5 1,211 7.11 4.62
Selva 120 111 0 3 234 1.87 0.96
Solsonès 0 24 0 0 24 2.00 0.00
Tarragonès 575 187 0 36 798 4.16 3.00
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Urgell 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Val d'Aran 31 0 0 0 31 3.80 3.80
Vallès Occidental 1,615 570 97 53 2,335 3.05 2.11
Vallès Oriental 534 332 30 15 911 2.70 1.58
Catalonia 17,881 8,659 4,542 397 31,479 4.80 2.73
Metropolità 12,877 5,641 2,648 290 21,456 4.75 2.85
Comarques Gironines 1,374 682 579 26 2,661 4.53 2.34
Camp de Tarragona 992 621 1,145 46 2,804 5.87 2.08
Terres de l'Ebre 432 288 0 4 724 4.47 2.67
Ponent 787 399 126 5 1,317 4.29 2.57
Comarques Centrals 1,266 918 24 16 2,224 5.02 2.86
Alt Pirineu i Aran 153 110 20 10 293 4.52 2.36
Barcelona 14,143 6,535 2,672 306 23,656 4.78 2.86
Girona 1,403 742 579 28 2,752 4.59 2.34
Lleida 911 473 146 13 1,543 4.15 2.45
Tarragona 1,424 909 1,145 50 3,528 5.52 2.23
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: The data is taken from the Register of sanitary centres, services and establishments. Includes therapeutic communities for drug addiction.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hospital bed
Bed that is regularly attended to by medical and nursing staff, located in an area of a hospital centre and that offers ongoing care to the admitted patients. Includes incubators and only operative beds. Excluded from this category are beds for births, for healthy neonates, for anaesthesia and reanimation, for unit observation or casualty services, for external consultancy and for people accompanying patients. They can be classified as two different types: care of acute patients and socio-sanitary care.
Care of acute patients hospital bed
Bed in a general or specialised hospital, such a surgical, maternity, paediatric and other specificities dedicated to nephrology, ophthalmologic, rheumatology, etc. Does not include beds in psychiatric hospitals or those for chronic or long stay patients.
Socio-sanitary care hospital bed
Residential bed that replaces one at home, used by people aged over 60 years or collectives of a younger age that are not the objects of any specific regulation but that present, in addition to social problems, non acute health problems, pathologies that require preventive treatment, permanent rehabilitation or continuous pharmacological or medical control.

Methodological aspects

For the data on hospital equipment there are two sources, both from the Department of Health. First, there is the Register of Health Centres, Services and Establishments, which basically provides information related to the location in the territory of centres that have received the corresponding administrative authorisation (health and county map). A second source of data are the Statistics on Health Establishment with Internment Schemes (EESRI), which provide annual information on the structure, resources, care and economies of hospital centres located in Catalonia. The EESRI statistics have been generated since 1980 by the Department of Health and are coordinated on a state level in association with the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.

Recently, Law 23/2010, of July 22, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas with the incorporation of the Penedès region. This new territorial area includes the counties of Alt Penedès, l'Anoia, el Baix Penedès and el Garraf. In consequence, the territorial boundaries of the area of Metropolità, Comarques centrals and Camp de Tarragona are modified, and their data is therefore not directly comparable with previous years.

Data on December 31.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".