Miguel de Cervantes Health Care Centre

• From Alcalá de Henares:

- Public local bus Line L3, from Plaza de Cervantes to Espartales.[2]

- Public local bus Line L10, from Vía Complutense to Espartales.[3]

• From Madrid: Intercity bus line 227, at the interchanger from America Avenue (Madrid) to Espartales – University (Alcalá de Henares).[4]

The centre offers Primary Care health attention of Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Midwifery and Odontology; as well as social services with a Social Worker. The professional staff is integrated by 11 Family doctors, 5 Pediatricians, 10 Nurses, 2 Physiotherapist, 2 Matron, 1 Odontologist, 1 Social Worker, 6 Administrative Assistants, 1 Nursery assistant and 1 Odontologist assistant. The attention is from Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 21:00 hours of opening The Centre refers specialist consultations to the Diagnosis and Treatment Integrated Centre Fancisco Diaz and also to the Principe de Asturias University Hospital.

The centre is a teaching centre for practicing and it is connected to:

• The Multiprofessional Teaching Unit of the EAST Familiar and Community Attention to provide education to residents of Family Doctors Specialists [6]
• The University of Alcalá to provide tutelary training to students of Medicine or Nursery
• To the Illustrious Official College of Physicians of Madrid to retrain Family Doctors
• moreover, the centre performs practices of sanitary administrative assistant.

Miguel de Cervantes.

Its name is in memorial of Miguel de Cervantes, a distinguished native and universal writer. Some Cervantes's sentences related with health are listed below:

• “To eat a bit and dinner less, because the whole body health is made in the office of the stomach.”
• “Sorrows were not made for beasts but for men; unless men suffered them a lot and they become beasts.”
• “It is better the pain in the face rather than a spot in the heart.”
• “I will die of old age but I will not fully understand the biped animal called man, because every man is a variety of his species.”
• “Don't walk, Sancho, ungirded and untwisted, because decomposed dress is suggested of a sad mood.”
• “Oh, memory, mortal enemy of my rest!”
• “You would better have a moderate rest, because who does not wake up with the sun does not enjoy the day.”
• “If jealousy are love sings, it is like the cold sore in the sick man, to get it is a sign of being alive but that is a sick live and not willing.”
• “A good contrition is the best medicine for the illness of the soul.”