Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío

The construction of the hospital began in the 50s, being finally opened in 1955, meaning an important improvement on the state of health care in the province. Its initial name was Residencia Sanitaria García Morato, which was used until the 70s.

The initial design counted only with one main building (nowadays the General Hospital), and was mainly used for surgery proceedings. By the 60s, the management was restructured, dividing the hospital in departments, and a new building was inaugurated in the complex, nowadays the Rehabilitation and Traumatology Hospital, followed by the Birth and Pediatrics Hospital.

Later on, the hospital has incorporated the Regional Center for Blood Transfusions, the female school for nursering (now extinct), the Diagnosticsand Treatment Center and the Pabillion of Pathologic Anatomy. In the 80s, the hospital transferred it management to the regional government (Junta de Andalucia) and signed a collaboration with the University of Seville, obtaining from then on the denomination of "University Hospital".[3]

The complex is cataloged as a regional hospital, that is, a third level center which offers the medical specialties included in the Spanish Healthcare System.[4]

Its influence area extends through the western side of Andalusia (provinces of Seville and Huelva), which adds around 550,000 inhabitants. The hospital hosts over 8,000 different professionals, with a budget of €516,831,000. In a year, it averages, among others, 50,000 hospitalizations, 300,000 consultations of emergency medicine, 47,000 surgeries, 1,160,000 external consultations, 6,000 births and 280 transplants.[5]

• Rare Neuromuscular Diseases European Reference Network
• European Paediatric Oncology Reference Network for Diagnosticos and Treatment (EPO-r-NeT)
• Neuroblastoma
• Rare cancers: Sarcomas and other musculoskeletal tumors both in infants and adults

• Critical burns
• Infant kidney transplant
• Pelvic osteotomy in adult hip dysplasia
• Resistant osteoarticular infections' treatment
• Infant orthopedics
• Infant allogeneic hematopoietic progenitor transplant
• Reimplantation, including the catastrophic hand
• Cross kidney transplant
• Brachial plexus surgery
• Rare diseases that occur with movement disorders
• Rare Neuromuscular Diseases
• Sarcoma in childhood
• Sarcoma and other musculoskeletal tumors in adults
• Neuroblastoma
• Rare Neuromuscular Diseases
• Renal tumors with vascular involvement (pending resolution)
• Germinal tumors of high and intermediate risk and resistant to first-line chemotherapy in adults (pending resolution)
• Serious Kidney Disease and treatment with dialysis (pending audit)
• Congenital Metabolic Diseases (pending audit)

• Cross kidney transplant
• Kidney transplant from living donor and cadaver
• Liver transplant from cadaver donor
• Adult heart transplant
• Reference laboratory for the molecular study in tuberculosis
• Bladder Exstrophy and Epispadias
• Acute and chronic porphyrias
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
• Cystic fibrosis
• Endothelial lamellar keratoplasty (DSAEK)
• Laboratory of metabolopathies. Neonatal screening
• Complex fetal medicine
• Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
• Branchial plexus surgery
• Child Orthopedics
• Pelvic osteotome in adult hip dysplasias
• Treatment of resistant osteoarticular infections
• Critical burns
• Reimplantation unit including the catastrophic hand
• Transplantation of allogeneic hematopoietic progenitors infantile
• Neuroblastoma
• Rare diseases that deal with movement disorders
• Kidney transplant in underweight children

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