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Hospital beds. By type. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Hospital beds. By type. Counties and Aran, and provinces 2022
Acute admission beds Sociosanitary beds Psychiatric beds Incubators Totalbeds Beds per 1,000 inh. Acute beds per 1,000 inh.
Alt Camp 91 207 0 1 299 6.62 2.01
Alt Empordà 203 154 0 0 357 2.52 1.44
Alt Penedès 124 291 0 2 417 3.75 1.11
Alt Urgell 52 30 20 6 108 5.34 2.57
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Anoia 222 211 0 7 440 3.51 1.77
Aran 31 9 0 0 40 3.92 3.04
Bages 379 319 40 12 750 4.17 2.11
Baix Camp 311 268 992 10 1,581 7.99 1.57
Baix Ebre 286 250 0 2 538 6.78 3.60
Baix Empordà 134 100 0 2 236 1.73 0.98
Baix Llobregat 1,379 1,239 1,765 45 4,428 5.34 1.66
Baix Penedès 130 126 0 0 256 2.28 1.16
Barcelonès 8,992 3,763 1,319 198 14,272 6.29 3.96
Berguedà 91 149 0 0 240 5.96 2.26
Cerdanya 64 52 0 2 118 6.10 3.31
Conca de Barberà 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Garraf 192 211 0 3 406 2.63 1.24
Garrigues 0 0 44 0 44 2.31 0.00
Garrotxa 64 72 0 1 137 2.33 1.09
Gironès 785 488 443 23 1,739 9.02 4.07
Maresme 526 632 205 5 1,368 2.99 1.15
Moianès 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Montsià 56 130 42 2 230 3.29 0.80
Noguera 0 115 25 0 140 3.61 0.00
Osona 293 307 16 4 620 3.79 1.79
Pallars Jussà 41 20 0 2 63 4.80 3.12
Pallars Sobirà 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Pla d'Urgell 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Pla de l'Estany 35 107 0 0 142 4.34 1.07
Priorat 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Ribera d'Ebre 78 38 0 4 120 5.55 3.61
Ripollès 45 34 0 1 80 3.14 1.77
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Segrià 813 337 285 8 1,443 6.90 3.89
Selva 106 133 0 3 242 1.39 0.61
Solsonès 0 32 0 0 32 2.30 0.00
Tarragonès 597 451 0 36 1,084 4.10 2.26
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Urgell 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Vallès Occidental 1,931 769 138 58 2,896 3.08 2.05
Vallès Oriental 501 504 65 16 1,086 2.60 1.20
Catalonia 18,552 11,548 5,399 453 35,952 4.64 2.39
Barcelona 14,630 8,365 3,548 350 26,893 4.72 2.57
Girona 1,436 1,170 443 32 3,081 3.96 1.85
Lleida 937 543 374 16 1,870 4.27 2.14
Tarragona 1,549 1,470 1,034 55 4,108 4.94 1.86
Source: Ministry of Health.
Note: The data is taken from the Register of sanitary centres, services and establishments. Includes therapeutic communities for drug addiction.

Last update: May 3, 2023.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

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.
Care of acute patients hospital bed
Bed in a general or specialised hospital, such a surgical, maternity, paediatric and other specificities dedicated to nephrology, ophthalmologic, rheumatology, etc. Does not include beds in psychiatric hospitals or those for chronic or long stay patients.
Socio-sanitary care hospital bed
Residential bed that replaces one at home, used by people aged over 60 years or collectives of a younger age that are not the objects of any specific regulation but that present, in addition to social problems, non acute health problems, pathologies that require preventive treatment, permanent rehabilitation or continuous pharmacological or medical control.

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 "..".