The University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves in Granada has welcomed the visit of a group of health workers from the Canadian Hospital in Toronto who have come to learn about the organization of a public hospital and some areas of development typical of a reference hospital in the health system Andalusian public.
A dozen Canadian professionals, including doctors, managers and nurses, were received by the management team who, in an introductory meeting, discussed the operation and strengths of this hospital as an example of avant-garde with the medical director, the nursing director and the director of management and services. and quality of care, as the hospital explains in a press release.
This group of international experts has chosen to visit this health center because of its size, high scientific, technological and health quality. Canadian GP, Lorna D’Silva, thanked “the warm and wonderful welcome of the Granada team and the availability to show high-tech surgical areas”.
Granada Hospital Medical Director Manuel Liñán has indicated that “a visit has been designed based on the expectations of the Canadian team with an interesting subsequent dialogue discussing areas of joint development aimed at highlighting the commitment and values supported by the Andalusian public health system”.
The director of Nursing, Yolanda Mejías, has emphasized the importance of the BPSO Centers Committed to Excellence program of good care practices, implemented in the hospital in 2015, “whose main aim is to provide quality nursing care, based on the best available evidence, to achieve better clinical outcomes with the people cared for at our center”.
For Mejías, this meeting is of great importance because “it will make it easier to bridge the gap between the two health systems as this program for the incorporation of guidelines for good practice in care is led by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario in Canada .”
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For his part, the economic director, José Luis Navarro, has responded to the doubts of the foreign group about how access to the hospital is arranged, how general services are managed, reward systems or more specific concerns such as the average stay after a prosthesis of hip or knee, rehabilitation or care plans.
The University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves is a reference institution in Granada. It has hospital centers, — General Hospital, Hospital for Neurotraumatology and Rehabilitation, Hospital for Maternal and Children, Hospital Doctor Olóriz, High Resolution Hospital of Guadix and Hospital
of High Resolution of Alcalá la Real–, in which they perform their work about 7,000 professionals.
It provides accessible and quality healthcare to the population of Granada in the north – almost a million – although, due to the high specialization of its portfolio of services and dedication to research, it is a benchmark in some specialties in the provinces of Granada and Almería, in the autonomous community, and even at the national level, with the recognition of various reference units of the national health system.
This hospital has the latest technology, both in the field of robotic surgery and hybrid operating rooms, as well as in the field of diagnostic testing (CAT, MRI and state-of-the-art PET) and interventional cardiology and vascular radiology.
Its teaching tradition, in the training of specialized doctors and nurses for undergraduate and master’s students, “the constant renewal of its facilities seeking maximum comfort for the patient, or the constant innovation in care, with personalized home hospitalization care programs and humanization, a teleconsultation platform or organ and tissue transplants mark the hallmark”.
The Virgen de las Nieves devotes a total of 120,000 square meters to care and constitutes “a large hospital complex consisting of care centers, two industrial buildings and an administrative pavilion.” In total, this hospital has a thousand beds, more than 400 consultations and fifty operating rooms.
