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Centres and hospital beds. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Centres and hospital beds. Counties, areas and provinces 2008
XHUP Other centres (1) Total
Centres Beds Centres Beds Centres Beds
Alt Camp 1 142 3 120 4 262
Alt Empordà 1 168 3 189 4 357
Alt Penedès 1 144 2 285 3 429
Alt Urgell 1 88 1 20 2 108
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 1 275 2 168 3 443
Bages 2 552 4 409 6 961
Baix Camp 2 368 4 1,198 6 1,566
Baix Ebre 2 342 1 250 3 592
Baix Empordà 1 151 1 100 2 251
Baix Llobregat 4 710 14 3,123 17 3,833
Baix Penedès 1 100 2 128 3 228
Barcelonès 21 6,956 64 7,064 83 14,020
Berguedà 1 150 3 90 4 240
Cerdanya 1 31 1 60 2 91
Conca de Barberà 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garraf 2 439 1 77 3 516
Garrigues 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garrotxa 1 152 0 0 1 152
Gironès 4 727 6 862 10 1,589
Maresme 2 566 9 653 11 1,219
Montsià 1 41 1 127 2 168
Noguera 0 0 2 132 2 132
Osona 1 282 6 400 7 682
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 1 100 1 8 2 108
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 8 545 11 1,290
Selva 1 123 3 121 4 244
Solsonès 0 0 1 24 1 24
Tarragonès 2 550 7 418 9 968
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 1,714 11 763 14 2,477
Vallès Oriental 3 580 9 356 10 936
Catalonia 68 16,502 170 17,690 238 34,192
Metropolità 36 11,109 110 12,321 141 23,430
Comarques Gironines 10 1,513 14 1,280 24 2,793
Camp de Tarragona 6 1,160 16 1,864 22 3,024
Terres de l'Ebre 4 503 2 377 6 880
Ponent 3 745 10 677 13 1,422
Comarques Centrals 5 1,259 16 1,091 21 2,350
Alt Pirineu i Aran 4 213 2 80 6 293
Barcelona 41 12,368 125 13,388 166 25,756
Girona 11 1,544 15 1,340 26 2,884
Lleida 6 927 12 721 18 1,648
Tarragona 10 1,663 18 2,241 28 3,904
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
The data is taken from the Register of sanitary centres, services and establishments. Includes therapeutic communities for drug addiction.
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 "..".