The new Clínica Girona has been operational since last April. With the transfer of the last ten or so inpatients on 18th April 2022, 88 years of uninterrupted healthcare assistance at Carrer Joan Maragall has come to an end. A new chapter now begins at the South entrance of the city.
The new clinic, located at 206 Carrer de Barcelona, on the southern entrance of the city, triples the space of the old building on Carrer Joan Maragall: Clínica Girona is expanding from a surface area of approximately 13,000 m² to 41,000 m².
It expanded all the services it had up to then, becoming a reference clinic in Catalonia, and the most modern hospital centre to incorporate total accessibility, allowing all people to be treated equally, from their arrival at the centre, during their stay, and upon their departure, regardless of their motor or sensory abilities.,
The new Clinic has 120 hospital beds, eight high-definition smart operating theatres, three delivery rooms and three for endoscopies, eight intensive care unit (ICU) bays and ten emergency bays, a day hospital area, an oncology unit and a pain medicine unit, with 20 individual bays, an outpatient minor surgery room and also more haemodialysis rooms.
All this supported by permanent diagnostic imaging, clinical analysis, and pathological anatomy services. The new Clinic also has 180 parking spaces underground.
An efficient, healthy, accessible and sustainable clinic
The construction work, which lasted three and a half years, was carried out by a temporary business combination led by Construccions Rubau, along with Agefred, from an architectural project by PMMT architects, specialists in hospitals. The site management, quality control, and health and safety management were carried out by the technical architecture company. AT2.
The new Clínica Girona is a modern, innovative, and functional healthcare centre, dedicated to providing efficient, healthy, accessible, and sustainable healthcare, committed to people's health. A healthy building to host the medicine of the future.
Innovative in the design of versatile spaces and aseptic, health-generating materials. Efficient in patient and staff mobility and healthy, with natural light and interior courtyards to improve comfort. Universally accessible: anyone will be able to access anywhere without barriers. And sustainable because it has been designed to guarantee energy and economic savings.
The New Clinic, floor by floor
The new Clínica Girona is equipped with the latest medical advancements and incorporates state-of-the-art technology, with smart operating theatres, more emergency and ICU bays, and more efficient and comfortable rooms. Outpatient clinics are being expanded and the cardiology and day hospital services are being enhanced, as is all diagnostic imaging. In this section, the Magnetic Resonance Service stands out, the only service of its kind in Catalonia and Spain that combines three pieces of equipment in the same department (one of them 3 tesla, claustrophobia-friendly, and another vertical MRI) that allow for the three types of resonance that patients can have today: low, medium or high intensity.
The new building is spread across eleven levels: three basement levels, the ground floor, and seven upper floors (at two levels: 7 floors on the Barcelona street side and 5 floors on the train tracks side). Basement level -3 is entirely public parking, and there is also a section of public parking on level -2, which also houses the Warehouse and Archives. On basement level -1 are the Nephrology and Dialysis Service, the Nuclear Medicine Service (with the PET-CT scanner), and the Hospital Pharmacy.
From the Ground Floor to the Seventh Floor
On the ground floor are located the Accident and Emergency Department and the Diagnostic Imaging Department. This, in addition to Reception, the Cafeteria, and the Admissions offices. Going up to the first floor, there are two blocks of Outpatients' Clinics, the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department, and the Laboratory. On the second floor, two more blocks of Outpatients' Clinics have been located, the Anatomopathology Department, the Ophthalmology Institute, and the Assisted Reproduction Unit.
On the third floor is the Surgical Block (8 operating theatres and 16 recovery beds). There is also the Digestive Endoscopy area, three delivery rooms, a minor surgery operating theatre and the Day Hospital, to enhance major day surgery and procedures that do not require an overnight stay. Angiology and cardiac surgery will also be enhanced on this floor.
The fourth floor has the ICU, a conventional hospitalisation area, as well as the Management and Administration services and the IT service. The fifth floor has two hospitalisation units, Maternity and Paediatrics. The sixth and seventh floors are for hospitalisation. The latter is prepared for isolation, and was redesigned after the covid-19 pandemic, like other spaces and cubicles which are also prepared for future pandemics.
