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Centres and hospital beds. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Centres and hospital beds. Counties and Aran, and provinces 2023
SISCAT Other centres Total
Centres Beds Centres Beds Centres Beds
Alt Camp 1 142 3 157 4 299
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 1 285 2 155 3 440
Aran 1 40 0 0 1 40
Bages 1 288 6 470 7 758
Baix Camp 2 363 5 1,218 7 1,581
Baix Ebre 2 288 1 250 3 538
Baix Empordà 1 136 1 100 2 236
Baix Llobregat 5 2,053 15 2,412 20 4,465
Baix Penedès 1 120 1 136 2 256
Barcelonès 19 7,100 62 7,342 81 14,442
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 0 0 2 406
Garrigues 0 0 1 44 1 44
Garrotxa 1 137 0 0 1 137
Gironès 4 761 7 981 11 1,742
Maresme 2 635 13 775 15 1,410
Moianès 0 0 0 0 0 0
Montsià 1 103 1 127 2 230
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 3 856 8 606 11 1,462
Selva 1 121 3 121 4 242
Solsonès 0 0 1 32 1 32
Tarragonès 2 558 10 530 12 1,088
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urgell 0 0 0 0 0 0
Vallès Occidental 4 1,962 14 930 18 2,892
Vallès Oriental 3 590 10 496 13 1,086
Catalonia 67 18,215 185 18,016 252 36,231
Barcelona 40 13,905 133 13,241 173 27,146
Girona 11 1,569 18 1,515 29 3,084
Lleida 6 1,047 13 842 19 1,889
Tarragona 10 1,694 21 2,418 31 4,112
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.
Other centres; 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: July 18, 2024.

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.