Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi

The Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic (official Italian name: Azienda ospedaliero-universitaria Policlinico Sant’Orsola Malpighi) is a university and public hospital. The Polyclinc is the largest hospital (beds) in Italy, and the first of the four public hospitals of the city of Bologna (Ospedale Maggiore, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Ospedale Bellaria).

Sant’Orsola-Malpighi
Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1974.
Geography
LocationBologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Organisation
TypeSpeciality
Affiliated universityUniversity of Bologna
Services
Emergency departmentI
Beds1,535
History
Opened1592
Links
Websitewww.aosp.bo.it
ListsHospitals in Italy

The Polyclinic has approximately 1,535 beds and 5,153 employees (857 doctors). Every year, it has 69,000 ordinary admissions, 139,000 emergency admissions, 33,000 surgeries and 3 million specialistic examinations. It has international excellence in some fields (oncologic hematology, hepatology, pediatric surgery).[1]

The hospital is affiliated with the School of Medicine and Surgery of the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna 1088.

According to Newsweek magazine, the hospital is the 27th best in the world for cardiology,[2] 28th for endocrinology[3] and 37th for gastroenterology.[4]

Transplant

In Italy, the Polyclinic is the second biggest center for transplants of liver (487 in 2000-05) and kidney (424) after the San Giovanni Battista Hospital of Turin; and also the second for heart (212) after the San Matteo Polyclinic of Pavia. The Polyclinic performs also intestinal and multi-organs transplants. In 2008, for the first time in Europe, a multi-organ transplant heart-liver-kidney was performed.

In 2016, 243 transplants were performed [5]

In ten years (2006-16), 427 heart transplant were performed, with a survival rate of more than 90% at one year, and 80,5% at five year. Both outcomes are the highest nationwide. [6]

History

The Sant’Orsola Hospital was founded in 1592 just outside the walls of the city (now ring road). In 1860-69, finally, it became home to the clinics of the Faculty of Medicine. The hospital was dedicated to Saint Ursula (now the patron saint). In 1978 it merged with the adjacent Malpighi Hospital built in the ‘70. The hospital was dedicated to Marcello Malpighi of Bologna, one of the greatest Italian histologist, anatomic and physiologist.

Structure

The hospital has thirty buildings, called padiglioni (pavilions), which home 67 units (specialist and support) grouped in 7 departments. It is organized as a “garden town” long more than 1 km.

The padiglioni are numbered from east to west (from the furthest to the closest to the city center).

Malpighi Area

  • 1 Pelagi (urology, ophthalmology, cardiology)
  • 2 Albertoni (internal medicine, geriatrics, neurology)
  • 3 Sede Amministrativa (administration)

Sant’Orsola Area

  • 4 Ginecologia e Ostetricia (gynaecology and obstetrics, g. & o. emergency department)
  • 5 Nuove Patologie (general, plastic, oral and maxillofacial, thoracic, vascular surgeries; diabetology, internal medicine, otolaryngology, gastroenterology and others)
  • 5 Nuova ala Pronto Soccorso generale e ortopedico (general and orthopedic emergency department)
  • 6 Malattie Infettive (infectious diseases)
  • 7 Malattie del Metabolismo (metabolic diseases)
  • 8 Ematologia “L. e A. Seragnoli” (hematology)
  • 9 Centro Mammografico (mammography)
  • 10 Pediatria “G. Gozzadini” (pediatrics)
  • 11 Clinica Medica (diabetology, endocrinology, medical genetics, internal medicine, radiology, radiotherapy)
  • 12 Magazzino Generale (support units)
  • 13 Pediatria (pediatric surgery, pediatric neuropsychiatry, pediatrics, p. emergency department)
  • 14 Ambulatori di Cardiologia (cardiology)
  • 15 Pneumo-nefrologia (pulmonology, nephrology)
  • 17 Palazzina Centro Unico di Prenotazione (administration)
  • 18 Anatomia e Istologia Patologica (anatomical and hystological pathology)
  • 19 Direzione Ospedaliera (administrative direction)
  • 20 Laboratorio Centralizzato (central laboratory)
  • 21 Cardiologia (cardiology)
  • 23 Polo Cardio-Toraco-Vascolare (cardiothoracic and vascular surgeries)
  • 24 Angiologia (angiology)
  • 25 Chirurgie (general surgery)
  • 26 Istituto Oncologico"F. Addarii" (oncology)
  • 27 Chirurgie (general surgery)
  • 28 Chirurgie (general surgery)
  • 29 Dermatologia (dermatology, hymmunoematology and transfusion medicine)
  • 30 Polo Tecnologico (nuclear medicine, radiotherapy)

References
  2. Newsweek (2020-09-07). "World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2021". Newsweek. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  3. Newsweek (2020-09-23). "Endocrinology". Newsweek. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  4. Newsweek (2020-11-06). "gastroenterology". Newsweek. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  5. |official numbers for transplants 2016 (italian)
  6. "Sant'Orsola: 700 heart transplant in 26 years" from Il Resto del Carlino newspaper (italian)

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