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

Hospital beds. By type. Counties, areas and provinces 2007
Acute admission beds Sociosanitary beds Psychiatric beds Incubators Totalbeds Beds per 1,000 inh. Acute beds per 1,000 inh.
Alt Camp 91 170 0 1 262 6.15 2.14
Alt Empordà 203 154 0 0 357 2.81 1.60
Alt Penedès 124 303 0 2 429 4.27 1.24
Alt Urgell 52 30 20 6 108 5.19 2.50
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Anoia 212 224 0 7 443 3.95 1.89
Bages 611 307 24 12 954 5.41 3.46
Baix Camp 315 270 972 9 1,566 8.76 1.76
Baix Ebre 342 250 0 0 592 7.54 4.35
Baix Empordà 101 150 0 0 251 2.01 0.81
Baix Llobregat 797 1,186 1,802 4 3,789 4.96 1.04
Baix Penedès 111 89 0 0 200 2.19 1.21
Barcelonès 9,052 3,563 837 220 13,672 6.21 4.11
Berguedà 91 149 0 0 240 5.92 2.24
Cerdanya 29 60 0 2 91 5.18 1.65
Conca de Barberà 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Garraf 185 251 0 3 439 3.22 1.36
Garrigues 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Garrotxa 82 70 0 0 152 2.85 1.54
Gironès 769 354 443 23 1,589 9.35 4.53
Maresme 618 594 92 5 1,309 3.17 1.50
Montsià 41 85 42 0 168 2.51 0.61
Noguera 0 106 26 0 132 3.51 0.00
Osona 354 276 16 10 656 4.44 2.40
Pallars Jussà 41 20 0 2 63 4.91 3.19
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 65 0 0 100 3.49 1.22
Priorat 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Ribera d'Ebre 78 38 0 4 120 5.32 3.46
Ripollès 58 34 0 0 92 3.48 2.19
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Segrià 759 322 201 8 1,290 6.75 3.97
Selva 120 121 0 3 244 1.58 0.77
Solsonès 0 24 0 0 24 1.77 0.00
Tarragonès 581 411 0 36 1,028 4.46 2.52
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Urgell 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00
Val d'Aran 31 0 0 0 31 3.21 3.21
Vallès Occidental 1,615 695 122 53 2,485 2.96 1.93
Vallès Oriental 486 337 30 14 867 2.30 1.29
Catalonia 17,984 10,708 4,627 424 33,743 4.71 2.51
Metropolità 12,877 6,929 2,883 301 22,990 4.76 2.67
Comarques Gironines 1,368 948 443 26 2,785 4.07 2.00
Camp de Tarragona 1,098 940 972 46 3,056 5.33 1.92
Terres de l'Ebre 461 373 42 4 880 4.87 2.55
Ponent 759 428 227 8 1,422 4.19 2.23
Comarques Centrals 1,268 980 40 29 2,317 4.72 2.59
Alt Pirineu i Aran 153 110 20 10 293 4.06 2.12
Barcelona 14,145 7,885 2,923 330 25,283 4.76 2.67
Girona 1,397 1,008 443 28 2,876 4.12 2.00
Lleida 883 502 247 16 1,648 4.00 2.14
Tarragona 1,559 1,313 1,014 50 3,936 5.22 2.07
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: July 15, 2009.

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.