The Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, best Hospital.

Seville, 2011-October the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona was elected best Hospital by the jury of Awards Best in Class, granted last Monday in the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos de Sevilla. In the 6th Edition held this year presented candidacy more than 160 centers and hospital services of all Spain.

Special mention was the complex healthcare University of Salamanca and remained as finalists the Hospital de Basurto Hospital are Llátzer, sanitary area of Ferrol/Conplejo hospital architect marcide HC San Juan Aljarafe Dios Hospital Foundation Hospital Manacor, Galdakao Hospital-Usansolo, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra and Consortium Hospital General Universitario de Valencia.

The autonomous communities more awarded were Madrid, Valencian Community, Catalonia, Andalusia and Basque country.

The awards ceremony was held at the exhibition and Congress in Seville and between these authorities were the Deputy Minister of health of Andalusia, Enrique Cruz Giráldez; Health Advisor, Madrid, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, and the Deputy Minister of health of the Basque country, Jesús María Fernández.

All the winners / centres and services

Best Hospital
-Hospital Clínic de Barcelona

primary care
-Bilbao Comarca

Gynecology
-Hospital de la Plana

Pediatrics
-Fuenlabrada University Hospital

Oncology
-Fuenlabrada University Hospital

Urology
-Fundación Jinénez Díaz

Cardiology
-Hospital Universitario La Paz

HIV AIDS
-University Hospital Reina Sofía

infectious diseases
-University Hospital Reina Sofía

Traumatology
-Hospital Torrevieja

ER
-Hospital Donostia

medicine Intensive UCI
-Univ General Hospital. Morales Meseguer

pain unit
-Pamplona University Clinic

Psychiatry
-Hospital de Basurto

pharmacy
-complex care University of Salamanca

Hematology
-Hospital Universitario de La Princesa

Pneumology
-Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío

Neurology
-H.R.U. Carlos Haya

preventive medicine
-complex hospital Insular-materno kids

internal medicine
-Hospital General Castello

Diabetes unit
-Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío

research and innovation
-Hospital University of the Princess

schizophrenia
-Hospital Clínic (Barcelona)

Nephrology
-Galdakao Hospital-Usansolo (Osakidetza)

Rheumatology
-Consortium Hospital General Universitario de Valencia

pathology digestive
-Hospital Clínico Universitario of Santiago de Compostela

Ophthalmology
-Hospital Torrevieja

Security Clinic
-Hospital Universitario de La Ribera

respiratory infections Pediatric
-Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Salamanca

Dermatology
-Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada

special award / medicine custom
-Canary Islands health service

special award /Sustainability
-Institut Guttmann

special award / Security Clinic institutions
-Comunidad de Madrid

about the Awards Best in Class

Los Awards Best in Class are an initiative of Gaceta Médica, the weekly of leading medical information, and the Chair of health management of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. This year reaches its sixth edition and seek to publicly acknowledge the best hospital and the best services or units of the national territory, both public and private, who seek excellence in the care they provide to their patients.

The mode of call centres is based on a score by the CR index established from the multivariate analysis of the results obtained in the questionnaires sent to hospitals. In addition, this Sixth Edition the Organization of the BiC has decided to join IMS global sponsor of these awards, in the assessment of candidatures with the specific task of weighing up to hospitals according to their characteristics.

IMS provides awards a rating on general hospitals in Spain. It is an analysis that allows to establish differences and similarities between the centers in function, not only in the number of beds, but a variable determinants in the activity and the hospital operation, including levels of care offer, high complexity, complexity, transplants, teaching and technology.

Awards ceremony takes place every year in a different city. Previous editions took place in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Bilbao and Santiago de Compostela.