Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona
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Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona is a teaching hospital specializing in the fields of pediatrics, gynecology and obstetrics. It is located on Passeig Sant Joan de Déu in Esplugues de Llobregat
Esplugues de Llobregat
Esplugues de Llobregat is a municipality of the Barcelona metropolitan area. It belongs to the comarca of Baix Llobregat, Barcelona province, Catalonia, Spain. It has some schools, such as the German School of Barcelona and American School of Barcelona, which attract rich families, thus increasing...

, a municipality bordering Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Catalonia
Catalonia
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 (Spain
Spain
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). It is a privately owned center concerted by the Catalan Health Service which belongs to the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, religious organization that manages nearly 300 health centers over the world.

The center has 362 beds and 12 operating rooms. It employs more than 1.200 professionals and attends every year more than 4.000 births, 130.000 emergencies, records 26.000 admissions and 13.000 surgeries are performed.

History

Hospital Sant Joan de Déu was founded in 1867. In 1973 it was a concerted by the public health service and in 1983 became part of the Public Hospital Network.
Since 2009, the hospital is associated with the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), a prestigious organization of children's hospitals working to promote health and access to healthcare for children, and has over 200 members at the U.S., Australia, Canada, Italy, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Teaching

Hospital Sant Joan de Déu has an agreement since 1994 with the University of Barcelona
University of Barcelona
The University of Barcelona is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. It is a member of the Coimbra Group, LERU, European University Association, Mediterranean Universities Union, International Research Universities Network and Vives Network...

 to promote undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. Within it is also taught continuing education for professionals, from the center and external, and training internships for professionals in various aspects of pediatric specialties and perinatology.

Research

The center promotes, in collaboration with the Foundation Sant Joan de Déu, several lines of research and has a building for research.

The main research teams focus their studies in:
  • Neurological diseases, diseases, especially in neurometabolic processes.
  • Diagnosis and new treatments for tumors of growth.
  • Infectious diseases, especially in the field of HIV
    HIV
    Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

     infection.
  • Pathology associated with pneumococcal infection
    Pneumococcal infection
    - Pathogenesis :S. pneumoniae is normally found in the nasopharynx of 5-10% of healthy adults, and 20-40% of healthy children. It can be found in higher amounts in certain environments, especially those where people are spending a great deal of time in close proximity to each other...

    .
  • Prevention and knowledge of adult diseases of fetal origin or in the early years of life.

Innovation

Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona is the first Spanish center with a specific department dedicated to promoting innovation
Innovation
Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...

among its professionals and supports them so they can go through with their ideas, patent them and build the prototype.

Solidarity schemes

Hospital Sant Joan de Déu is twinned with the Hospital of Lunsar in Sierra Leone. Nursing and pediatric professionals from the maternal-child center do health care stays in the African hospital to support local health professionals.

This partnership is complemented by the program Apadrina, which aims to finance the treatment of underprivileged children who are treated at the Hospital of Lunsar.

In 2004 the hospital launched, in collaboration with DKV Seguros and Foundation Somni dels Nens, the solidarity scheme Cuidam that treats children from third world who require highly complex treatments not available in their country.

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