Angel Juarez

Barcelona Children's Hospital Sant Joan de Déu

Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (Barcelona) is a teaching hospital specializing in the fields of pediatrics, gynecology and obstetrics. It is located in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). It is a privately owned center, concerted by the Catalan Public Health Service, which belongs to the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, religious organization that manages more than 300 health centers over the world. In 2018, the center has 318 beds and 13 operating rooms. It employs more than 1.900 professionals and attends 3.381 births, 117.993 emergencies, records 18.071 hospitalizations, 7.649 major ambulatory surgery, and 8.229 surgeries are performed. Hospital Sant Joan de Deu is the largest children's hospital in Spain, one of the top5 in Europe, along with Great Ormond Street (London), Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades (Paris) and Ospedale Meyer (Florence), and the reference point in Health 2.0 in Spain. Since 2009 the hospital is associated with the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI), a prestigious organization of children's hospitals working to promote health and access to health care for children, and has over 200 members in the United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Mexico and Puerto Rico.