Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal

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Hospital in Community of Madrid, Spain

40°29′14″N 3°41′38″W / 40.487208°N 3.693883°W / 40.487208; -3.693883OrganisationAffiliated universityUniversity of AlcaláNetworkServicio Madrileño de SaludServicesBeds901HistoryOpened18 October 1977LinksListsHospitals in Spain

The Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal is a public general hospital located in the Valverde neighborhood, in Madrid, Spain, part of the hospital network of the Servicio Madrileño de Salud.

It is one of the healthcare institutions associated to the University of Alcalá for the purpose of clinical internship.^[1]

History

Named after the Spanish winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine Santiago Ramón y Cajal,^[2] it was opened on 18 October 1977, receiving the nickname of el piramidón,^[2] after Pyramidon, a analgesic administered very often at the time.^[3] It was criticised back then because of its location, cost and size.^[2]

It developed the first service in Spain for pediatric cardiology (1977) and the first unit of cardiac rehabilitation (1979).^[4] Aside from the teaching and medical attention features, it is noted by its research prowess^[2]^[5] (the first in the region in scientific research production),^[4] particularly in the scope of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.^[2] As of 2017 it has 901 beds.^[6] At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemia in Madrid, in March and April 2020, the hospital had 994 beds occupied by patients of COVID-19.^[7]

References

^ "La Universidad de Alcalá y el Hospital de Alcalá forman parte de Biomad". La Luna de Alcalá. 25 February 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Escandón, Pelayo (23 October 2017). "40 años del 'Piramidón'". El País.
^ Bellver, Carlos (27 January 1980). "La ubicacion de los hospitales, un ejemplo perfecto de mala planificación sanitaria". El País (in European Spanish). De acuerdo con todo ello, el Ramón y Cajal comenzó a ser esperado como la gran panacea que tenía que resolver gran parte de los problemas hospitalarios madrileños. Por ello, alguien pensó que, siguiendo con los términos médicos, el citado centro venía a ser a la sanidad madrileña como el Piramidón -un antipirético muy utilizado para eliminar los síntomas de la enfermedad, aunque no la enfermedad en sí- a cualquier enfermo. De ahí a que el Centro Ramón y Cajal pasara ser conocido por todos como el Piramidón no medió ni un paso.
^ ^a ^b "El Ramón y Cajal es el primer hospital de la región de Madrid en producción científica". El Correo. 18 October 2017. Archived from the original on 24 March 2020. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
^ Tovar, Javier (19 October 2017). "Hospital Ramón y Cajal: 40 años "Haciendo historia"". efesalud.com. Agencia EFE.
^ González, Marco (20 December 2018). "El Hospital Gregorio Marañón pierde en seis años un 20% de sus camas". El Boletín.
^ Alfageme, Ana (6 June 2020). "Crisis del coronavuris: Agonía y resurreción del doctor Moreno". El Pais.