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Centres and hospital beds. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Centres and hospital beds. Counties, areas and provinces 2014
SISCAT 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 3 277 4 421
Alt Urgell 1 88 1 20 2 108
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 1 280 2 155 3 435
Bages 2 589 5 410 7 999
Baix Camp 2 363 4 1,198 6 1,561
Baix Ebre 2 288 1 250 3 538
Baix Empordà 1 136 1 100 2 236
Baix Llobregat 5 1,197 15 3,220 20 4,417
Baix Penedès 1 100 1 119 2 219
Barcelonès 19 7,029 64 7,205 83 14,234
Berguedà 1 150 3 90 4 240
Cerdanya 1 31 2 118 3 149
Conca de Barberà 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garraf 2 406 0 0 2 406
Garrigues 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garrotxa 1 137 0 0 1 137
Gironès 4 750 7 967 11 1,717
Maresme 2 635 11 747 13 1,382
Montsià 1 88 1 127 2 215
Noguera 0 0 2 140 2 140
Osona 1 292 7 403 8 695
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 7 534 10 1,349
Selva 1 121 3 121 4 242
Solsonès 0 0 1 32 1 32
Tarragonès 2 558 9 513 11 1,071
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 4 1,962 13 746 17 2,708
Vallès Oriental 3 570 11 471 14 1,041
Catalonia 68 17,433 182 18,314 250 35,747
Metropolità 33 11,393 114 12,389 147 23,782
Comarques Gironines 10 1,492 16 1,419 26 2,911
Camp de Tarragona 5 1,063 16 1,831 21 2,894
Terres de l'Ebre 4 496 2 377 6 873
Ponent 3 815 9 674 12 1,489
Comarques Centrals 4 1,031 16 935 20 1,966
Alt Pirineu i Aran 4 213 3 138 7 351
Penedès 5 930 6 551 11 1,481
Barcelona 41 13,254 133 13,694 174 26,948
Girona 11 1,523 19 1,567 30 3,090
Lleida 6 997 11 726 17 1,723
Tarragona 10 1,659 19 2,327 29 3,986
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
The data is taken from the Register of sanitary centres, services and establishments. Includes therapeutic communities for drug addiction.
SISCAT Centres forming part of the Network of Hospitals for Public Use in care of acute admissions.
(1) Centres not included in the SISCAT part of whose activity in the hospitalisation of acute admissions is contracted by the Catalan Health Service.

Last update: February 27, 2015.

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 "..".