The Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús is a

children's hospital A children's hospital is a hospital that offers its services exclusively to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In certain special cases, they may also treat adults. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th ...

located at the

Niño Jesús Niño Jesús is an administrative neighborhood (''barrio'') of Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 ...

neighborhood in

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

, Spain, part of the hospital network of the

Servicio Madrileño de Salud The Madrilenian Health Service ( es, Servicio Madrileño de Salud, SERMAS) is the body responsible for the system of Universal health care, public health services in the Community of Madrid. The SERMAS was created in 2001, as the functions and ser ...

(SERMAS). The building was declared ''

Bien de Interés Cultural A Bien de Interés Cultural is a category of the heritage register in Spain. The term is also used in Venezuela and other Spanish-speaking countries. The term literally means a "good of cultural interest" ("goods" in the economic sense) and inclu ...

'' in 1995.:

History

The building project was drafted by

Francisco Jareño Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...

. Works lasted from 1879 to circa 1885, although the building was reportedly inaugurated in 1881. As of 2019 it has 160 beds. It is associated to the

Autonomous University of Madrid The Autonomous University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as simply la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 alongside the Autonomous Universi ...

(UAM) for the purpose of medical internship and to the

Alfonso X El Sabio University Alfonso X el Sabio University (''Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio'' in Spanish language, ''UAX'') is a private university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. The number of enrolled students amounts to 8,500 The UAX offers its students the option of ...

, the

Universidad Pontificia Comillas Comillas Pontifical University ( es, Universidad Pontificia Comillas) is a private Catholic higher education institution run by the Spanish Province of the Society of Jesus in Madrid Spain. The university is involved in a number of academic exch ...

, the Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería y Fisioterapia San Juan de Dios, the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca the Facultad de Enfermería y Fisioterapia Salus Infirmorum and the Centro Universitario San Rafael-Nebrija for the purpose of nursery internship.

References

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