“We will achieve improvements in services for people and move towards the medicine of the future, with short hospital stays and more efficient diagnostics,” states the manager, Carles Espígol.
Construction work has begun on the new Clínica Girona, and it is progressing well. These works will triple the current space of the clinic and dignify the southern entrance to the city. “We will gain in services for people and move towards the medicine of the future, with short stays in the clinic and more efficient diagnostics,» states Carles Espígol, manager of Clínica Girona. The work will last 26 months, until the end of 2020. Furthermore, the clinic will complete all the urbanisation of the sector. The global cost of the project – construction of the building and urbanisation of the surrounding area – will amount to between 60 and 62 million euros.
If in 1934 Clínica Girona opened its doors to the Girona society of the time and left everyone marvelling at its modernity (with an elevator and en-suite bathrooms, highly innovative things in those days), soon, when the new headquarters opens its doors in 2020, Girona will relive that image, with a very modern hospital centre, equipped with the latest medical technology, with smart operating theatres and the use of innovative materials specifically designed to offer a healthy space.
In February 2018, during the visit to mark the start of the preliminary demolition work on the industrial units on the site, the manager of Clínica Girona, Carles Espígol, accompanied by the Mayor Marta Madrenas, the Councillor for Urban Planning Joan Josep Alcalà, and the Councillor for Territory Development, Equality and Social Rights Eva Palau. Eva provided a broad overview of what the new Clínica Girona will be like: “we are very pleased to finally be able to begin the works for the new Clinic, a very modern hospital centre, which will feature eight high-definition operating theatres, three delivery rooms, and three for endoscopies.”.
In parallel, the day hospital, oncology, and pain medicine area will also be promoted. Here there will be 20 individual cubicles and an outpatient minor surgery room. It will have 180 underground parking spaces, an assembly hall (with a capacity for 100 people), a bar, a cafeteria, and offices for staff, among others.
Major day case surgery will be enhanced.
According to the manager, although the number of rooms will not increase much – it will go from 114 to 120 – they will all be single and larger than the current ones. “The objective,” said Carles Espígol, "is to be able to particularly boost major day surgery and the surgical area, as well as the cardiology, oncology, and diagnostic imaging departments.".
The new clinic will have emergency services, dialysis, an exemplary diagnostic imaging service with 16 imaging rooms, outpatient clinics for all specialities, assisted reproduction, pathological anatomy, rehabilitation, laboratories, operating theatres, an obstetrics unit, a day hospital, angiography, endoscopy, an ICU, inpatient units, and all the general services necessary for the clinic's operation, such as pharmacy, kitchen, cleaning, sterilisation, and storage, etc.
The team of PMMT Architecture, specialising in hospitals, has signed the project for the new Girona Clinic. The clinic will occupy the plot located at numbers 204-206 on Carretera Barcelona. It will have seven floors above ground facing the Barcelona road and 5 facing the train tracks, plus three underground floors.
The actual construction of the new Girona Clinic will begin after the demolition of the abandoned industrial sheds in the area, and after carrying out the cleaning and urbanisation of the site. Transports Mateu SL is the company responsible for this first phase of demolition.
