Sirio Libanes

Overview

The Sírio-Libanês Hospital is one of the most important hospitals in Brazil and South America. It is one of the most well-known health facilities in Brazil due to the high quality of care.

Syrian-Lebanese is an international reference center on health. Through its service units, and also through its efforts of social responsibility, teaching and research, it helps an increasing number of Brazilians to have a better and healthier life. This includes more than 120,000 patients treated annually in its facilities and also citizens who benefit from public-p cooperation Rivada , projects in support of the Unified Health System (SUS) and the widespread medical knowledge in their programs formation.

The humanization of service, pioneering and excellence are the bases of the work of the Syrian-Lebanese and are part of its origin. The institution emerged in 1921 when a group of immigrants from the Syrian-Lebanese community in Brazil met to create a project that would reciprocate the warm welcome they received in the country. The Beneficent Society of Ladies was created, a philanthropic entity that still maintains the institution.

Structure and services

With a constructed area of approximately 100,000 m² in the neighborhood of Bela Vista, in São Paulo, it serves more than 40 specialties and has 466 beds (data from May 2016), of which 47 in the Intensive Care Unit. A large ongoing expansion program will bring this capacity to 710 beds by the end of 2016. The investment in social responsibility will also have an exponential increase, rising from R $ 80 million per year to R $ 150 million in the same period.

The institution combines a multi - disciplinary clinical team the latest technology. Over the years, it has achieved pioneering achievements, such as the inauguration of the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Brazil in 1971 and participation in the first robot-guided tele-surgery performed in the Southern Hemisphere in 2000.

Its area of activity covers preventive medicine programs, emergency and emergency medical care, highly complex therapeutic internments and rehabilitation, among other services. A work recognized with the seal of the Joint Commission International (JCI), the world's most important body of hospital quality control.

The Sírio-Libanês Hospital makes every effort to get to know everything about you and to offer each patient individual care. Every day Sírio-Libanês Hospital welcomes people from many different countries, and have set up a specialist team for this purpose. They will find out what you need and give you all the help they can.