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Centres and hospital beds. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Centres and hospital beds. Counties and Aran, and provinces 2016
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 3 273 4 417
Alt Urgell 1 88 1 20 2 108
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 1 280 2 155 3 435
Aran 1 31 0 0 1 31
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 3,156 20 4,353
Baix Penedès 1 110 1 136 2 246
Barcelonès 19 6,845 64 7,219 83 14,064
Berguedà 1 150 3 90 4 240
Cerdanya 1 66 1 52 2 118
Conca de Barberà 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garraf 2 406 1 44 3 450
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 13 747 15 1,382
Moianès 0 0 0 0 0 0
Montsià 1 88 1 127 2 215
Noguera 0 0 2 140 2 140
Osona 1 292 6 328 7 620
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 6 517 9 1,332
Selva 1 121 3 121 4 242
Solsonès 0 0 1 32 1 32
Tarragonès 2 558 10 511 12 1,069
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urgell 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vallès Occidental 4 1,962 15 857 19 2,819
Vallès Oriental 3 570 10 447 13 1,017
Catalonia 68 17,294 184 18,248 252 35,542
Barcelona 41 13,070 135 13,652 176 26,722
Girona 11 1,558 18 1,501 29 3,059
Lleida 6 997 11 753 17 1,750
Tarragona 10 1,669 20 2,342 30 4,011
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: September 18, 2017.

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 "..".