Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi

Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi
Geography
Location Bologna, Italy
Organisation
Affiliated university University of Bologna public
Services
Emergency department Level I
Beds 1535
History
Founded 1592
Links
Website http://www.aosp.bo.it/

The Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic (official Italian name: Azienda ospedaliero-universitaria Policlinico Sant’Orsola Malpighi) is a university and public hospital. It is the first of the four “top” hospitals of the city of Bologna, Italy (Ospedale Maggiore, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Ospedale Bellaria).

The Polyclinic has approximately 1,535 beds and 5,153 employees (857 doctors). Every year, it has 69,000 ordinary admissions, 139,000 emergency admissions, 33,000 surgeries and 3 million specialistic examinations. The Polyclinc is one of the best and largest hospital in Italy. It has international excellence in some fields (oncologic hematology, hepatology, pediatric surgery).[1]

The hospital is affiliated with the School of Medicine and Surgery of the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna 1088.

Transplant

In Italy, the Polyclinic is the second biggest center for transplants of liver (487 in 2000-05) and kidney (424) after the San Giovanni Battista Hospital of Turin; and also the second for heart (212) after the San Matteo Polyclinic of Pavia. The Polyclinic performs also intestinal and multi-organs transplants. In 2008, for the first time in Europe, a multi-organ transplant heart-liver-kidney was performed.

History

The Sant’Orsola Hospital was founded in 1592 just outside the walls of the city (now ring road). In 1860-69, finally, it became home to the clinics of the Faculty of Medicine. The hospital was dedicated to Saint Ursula (now the patron saint). In 1978 it merged with the adjacent Malpighi Hospital built in the ‘70. The hospital was dedicated to Marcello Malpighi of Bologna, one of the greatest Italian histologist, anatomic and physiologist.

Structure

The hospital has thirty buildings, called padiglioni (pavilions), which home 67 units (specialist and support) grouped in 7 departments. It is organized as a “garden town” long more than 1 km.

The padiglioni are numbered from east to west (from the furthest to the closest to the city center).

Malpighi Area

Sant’Orsola Area

The pavilion 22 and part of the 23 will be replaced soon (2014) with a new cardio-thoracic-vascular center.

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Coordinates: 44°29′27″N 11°21′53″E / 44.49083°N 11.36472°E