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Centres and hospital beds. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Centres and hospital beds. Counties, areas and provinces 2005
XHUP Other centres (1) Total
Centres Beds Centres Beds Centres Beds
Alt Camp 1 142 3 120 4 262
Alt Empordà 1 168 3 189 4 357
Alt Penedès 1 144 2 285 3 429
Alt Urgell 1 88 1 20 2 108
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 1 250 2 168 3 418
Bages 2 552 4 372 6 924
Baix Camp 1 318 5 1,452 6 1,770
Baix Ebre 1 237 2 355 3 592
Baix Empordà 1 151 1 100 2 251
Baix Llobregat 4 738 12 2,881 16 3,619
Baix Penedès 0 0 2 176 2 176
Barcelonès 20 6,970 60 6,507 80 13,477
Berguedà 1 150 3 127 4 277
Cerdanya 1 31 1 60 2 91
Conca de Barberà 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garraf 2 439 0 0 2 439
Garrigues 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garrotxa 1 152 0 0 1 152
Gironès 3 701 7 888 10 1,589
Maresme 2 546 9 758 11 1,304
Montsià 0 0 2 83 2 83
Noguera 0 0 2 132 2 132
Osona 1 282 6 374 7 656
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 0 0 1 100 1 100
Priorat 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ribera d'Ebre 1 120 0 0 1 120
Ripollès 1 92 0 0 1 92
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0 0
Segrià 3 745 7 516 10 1,261
Selva 1 123 3 111 4 234
Solsonès 0 0 1 24 1 24
Tarragonès 2 520 6 367 8 887
Terra Alta 0 0 0 0 0 0
Urgell 0 0 0 0 0 0
Val d'Aran 1 31 0 0 1 31
Vallès Occidental 3 1,645 11 776 14 2,421
Vallès Oriental 4 629 8 301 12 930
Catalonia 62 16,027 164 17,242 226 33,269
Metropolità 36 11,111 102 11,508 138 22,619
Comarques Gironines 8 1,387 15 1,388 23 2,775
Camp de Tarragona 4 980 16 2,115 20 3,095
Terres de l'Ebre 2 357 4 438 6 795
Ponent 3 745 9 648 12 1,393
Comarques Centrals 5 1,234 16 1,065 21 2,299
Alt Pirineu i Aran 4 213 2 80 6 293
Barcelona 41 12,345 117 12,549 158 24,894
Girona 9 1,418 16 1,448 25 2,866
Lleida 6 927 11 692 17 1,619
Tarragona 6 1,337 20 2,553 26 3,890
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
Les dades provenen del Registre de centres, serveis i establiments sanitaris. S'hi inclouen les comunitats terapèutiques de drogode-pendències.
XHUP Centres forming part of the Network of Hospitals for Public Use in care of acute admissions.
(1) Centres not included in the XHUP part of whose activity in the hospitalisation of acute admissions is contracted by the Catalan Health Service.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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.