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Centres and hospital beds. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Centres and hospital beds. Counties, areas and provinces 2011
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 2 300 3 444
Alt Urgell 1 88 1 20 2 108
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 1 280 2 168 3 448
Bages 2 589 5 410 7 999
Baix Camp 2 363 4 1,198 6 1,561
Baix Ebre 2 353 1 250 3 603
Baix Empordà 1 136 1 100 2 236
Baix Llobregat 5 1,197 15 3,233 20 4,430
Baix Penedès 1 100 1 119 2 219
Barcelonès 19 6,999 66 7,234 85 14,233
Berguedà 1 150 3 90 4 240
Cerdanya 1 31 1 54 2 85
Conca de Barberà 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garraf 2 426 1 77 3 503
Garrigues 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garrotxa 1 152 0 0 1 152
Gironès 4 750 7 977 11 1,727
Maresme 2 635 11 697 13 1,332
Montsià 1 60 1 127 2 187
Noguera 0 0 2 132 2 132
Osona 1 292 7 405 8 697
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 2 42 3 142
Priorat 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ribera d'Ebre 1 120 0 0 1 120
Ripollès 1 80 0 0 1 80
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0 0
Segrià 3 815 7 522 10 1,337
Selva 1 121 3 121 4 242
Solsonès 0 0 1 32 1 32
Tarragonès 2 558 8 433 10 991
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 1,746 13 870 16 2,616
Vallès Oriental 3 530 9 348 12 878
Catalonia 67 17,219 180 18,268 247 35,487
Metropolità 32 11,107 114 12,382 146 23,489
Comarques Gironines 10 1,507 16 1,429 26 2,936
Camp de Tarragona 5 1,063 15 1,751 20 2,814
Terres de l'Ebre 4 533 2 377 6 910
Ponent 3 815 9 654 12 1,469
Comarques Centrals 4 1,031 16 937 20 1,968
Alt Pirineu i Aran 4 213 2 74 6 287
Penedès 5 950 6 664 11 1,614
Barcelona 40 12,988 133 13,802 173 26,790
Girona 11 1,538 18 1,513 29 3,051
Lleida 6 997 11 706 17 1,703
Tarragona 10 1,696 18 2,247 28 3,943
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
The data is taken from the Register of sanitary centres, services and establishments. Includes therapeutic communities for drug addiction.
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.
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: October 22, 2012.

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 "..".