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Centres and hospital beds. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Centres and hospital beds. Counties, areas and provinces 2003
XHUP Other centres (1) Total
Centres Beds Centres Beds Centres Beds
Alt Camp 1 142 2 85 3 227
Alt Empordà 1 168 3 189 4 357
Alt Penedès 1 126 2 214 3 340
Alt Urgell 1 88 1 20 2 108
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 1 250 2 168 3 418
Bages 2 546 5 403 7 949
Baix Camp 1 318 4 1,385 5 1,703
Baix Ebre 1 237 2 355 3 592
Baix Empordà 1 151 0 0 1 151
Baix Llobregat 4 738 11 2,518 15 3,256
Baix Penedès 0 0 1 76 1 76
Barcelonès 20 6,980 56 5,909 76 12,889
Berguedà 1 150 2 87 3 237
Cerdanya 1 31 1 60 2 91
Conca de Barberà 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garraf 2 433 0 0 2 433
Garrigues 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garrotxa 1 152 0 0 1 152
Gironès 3 701 7 874 10 1,575
Maresme 2 546 9 746 11 1,292
Montsià 0 0 1 12 1 12
Noguera 0 0 2 106 2 106
Osona 1 266 5 330 6 596
Pallars Jussà 1 63 0 0 1 63
Pallars Sobirà 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pla d'Urgell 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pla de l'Estany 0 0 1 100 1 100
Priorat 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ribera d'Ebre 1 120 0 0 1 120
Ripollès 1 92 0 0 1 92
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0 0
Segrià 3 745 6 466 9 1,211
Selva 1 123 3 111 4 234
Solsonès 0 0 1 24 1 24
Tarragonès 2 520 6 278 8 798
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urgell 0 0 0 0 0 0
Val d'Aran 1 31 0 0 1 31
Vallès Occidental 3 1,599 10 736 13 2,335
Vallès Oriental 4 629 7 282 11 911
Catalonia 62 15,945 150 15,534 212 31,479
Metropolità 36 11,051 95 10,405 131 21,456
Comarques Gironines 8 1,387 14 1,274 22 2,661
Camp de Tarragona 4 980 13 1,824 17 2,804
Terres de l'Ebre 2 357 3 367 5 724
Ponent 3 745 8 572 11 1,317
Comarques Centrals 5 1,212 15 1,012 20 2,224
Alt Pirineu i Aran 4 213 2 80 6 293
Barcelona 41 12,263 109 11,393 150 23,656
Girona 9 1,418 15 1,334 24 2,752
Lleida 6 927 10 616 16 1,543
Tarragona 6 1,337 16 2,191 22 3,528
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
Les dades provenen del Registre de centres, serveis i establiments sanitaris. S'hi inclouen les comunitats terapèutiques de drogode-pendències.
XHUP Centres forming part of the Network of Hospitals for Public Use in care of acute admissions.
(1) Centres not included in the XHUP part of whose activity in the hospitalisation of acute admissions is contracted by the Catalan Health Service.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Hospital centre
Centre that provides a permanent service, including admission, with medical and nursing care, and that provides beds for continuous attention. Hospital centres are classified according to the type of hospital care given: acute admission, socio-sanitary and psychiatric to which they dedicate 80% or more of their operative beds. If a centre provides more than one type of care, without any of them reaching 80%, then they are classed as mixed hospitals.
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.

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 "..".