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Centres and hospital beds. Counties and Aran, and provinces

Centres and hospital beds. Counties, areas and provinces 2010
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 2 300 3 444
Alt Urgell 1 88 1 20 2 108
Alta Ribagorça 0 0 0 0 0 0
Anoia 1 275 2 168 3 443
Bages 2 552 5 465 7 1,017
Baix Camp 2 363 4 1,198 6 1,561
Baix Ebre 2 342 1 250 3 592
Baix Empordà 1 136 1 100 2 236
Baix Llobregat 4 837 15 3,465 19 4,302
Baix Penedès 1 100 1 100 2 200
Barcelonès 19 6,813 67 7,033 86 13,846
Berguedà 1 150 3 90 4 240
Cerdanya 1 31 1 60 2 91
Conca de Barberà 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garraf 2 419 1 77 3 496
Garrigues 0 0 0 0 0 0
Garrotxa 1 152 0 0 1 152
Gironès 4 728 6 862 10 1,590
Maresme 2 622 11 683 13 1,305
Montsià 1 41 1 127 2 168
Noguera 0 0 2 132 2 132
Osona 1 282 7 430 8 712
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 1 100 1 8 2 108
Priorat 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ribera d'Ebre 1 120 0 0 1 120
Ripollès 1 80 0 0 1 80
Segarra 0 0 0 0 0 0
Segrià 3 745 8 545 11 1,290
Selva 1 121 3 121 4 242
Solsonès 0 0 1 32 1 32
Tarragonès 2 550 8 438 10 988
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 1,677 13 926 16 2,603
Vallès Oriental 3 570 10 390 13 960
Catalonia 66 16,442 181 18,329 247 34,771
Metropolità 34 11,082 119 12,874 153 23,956
Comarques Gironines 10 1,485 14 1,280 24 2,765
Camp de Tarragona 6 1,155 16 1,856 22 3,011
Terres de l'Ebre 4 503 2 377 6 880
Ponent 3 745 10 677 13 1,422
Comarques Centrals 5 1,259 18 1,185 23 2,444
Alt Pirineu i Aran 4 213 2 80 6 293
Barcelona 39 12,341 135 13,997 174 26,338
Girona 11 1,516 16 1,370 27 2,886
Lleida 6 927 12 729 18 1,656
Tarragona 10 1,658 18 2,233 28 3,891
Source: Ministry of Health.
Notes:
The data is taken from the Register of sanitary centres, services and establishments. Includes therapeutic communities for drug addiction.
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: July 19, 2011.

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.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".