Buenos Aires, Argentina
About the Hospital
Founded in 1853 by the Italian Society of Charities in Buenos Aires, the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires is a non-profit civil association dedicated to general and highly complex medicine.
The assistance, teaching and research are the institutional pillars that, with a great vision of the future, established their founders and that today, more than a century and a half of its creation, the Hospital keeps current with the same passion.
Profile of the institution
Each year, the Hospital attends 2,950,000 consultations, manages 47,000 discharges and performs 51,000 surgical procedures in its 41 operating theaters. It has a capacity of 785 beds, of which 200 are for critical care, and has 800 beds of home medicine. Its work team is made up of 9000 people: 3400 doctors, 3300 members of the health staff and 2300 people from the administrative sectors.
As for the assistance it provides, the Italian Hospital has more than 40 medical specialties, a complete diagnostic and treatment equipment, and a recognized professional staff. In addition, it has its own university that dictates careers in Nursing, Medicine, Biochemistry and Pharmacy, and the Institute of Basic Sciences and Experimental Medicine.
The Hospital achieved the accreditation in quality and safety granted by the Joint Commission International
In 2015 the Italian hospital achieved accreditation as an Academic Hospital, granted by the Joint Commission International. This prestigious organization audited more than 1,200 measuring elements with the most demanding international standards. In this way, it evaluated the quality and safety of attention, and the teaching and research activity.
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