The ''Hospital Provincial del Centenario'' (Spanish, Centennial Provincial Hospital) is a general
hospital
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in
Rosario
Rosario () is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most p ...
,
Argentina
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, which depends on the Health Ministry of the
provincial state of
Santa Fe. It is a
public hospital
A public hospital, or government hospital, is a hospital which is government owned and is fully funded by the government and operates solely off the money that is collected from taxpayers to fund healthcare initiatives. In some countries, this typ ...
, managed partly by an elected council.
The HPC is located about ten blocks from the center of the city, on Urquiza St. and Francia Avenue. The hospital and the Faculty of Medicine of the
Universidad Nacional de Rosario
The National University of Rosario ( es, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, UNR) is a research public university located in the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina.
Overview
Rosario National University (UNR) was created in 1968 by ...
share a large area of 2-by-2 blocks and are communicated by inner passages.
The hospital has 183 beds and services the north and north-west part of Rosario as well as neighboring towns in the west of the
Greater Rosario
Greater Rosario is the metropolitan area of the city of Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. This metropolis has a population of about 1.3 million (1,276,000 million inhabitants) thus being Argentina's third most populated urban ...
metropolitan area. It is the base hospital for 9
primary care
Primary care is the day-to-day healthcare given by a health care provider. Typically this provider acts as the first contact and principal point of continuing care for patients within a healthcare system, and coordinates other specialist care ...
centers (in administrative terms, Programmatic Area II of Zone VIII of the Santa Fe Ministry of Health).
The name of the hospital derives from its initial planning as part of the commemoration for the 100th anniversary of the
May Revolution
The May Revolution ( es, Revolución de Mayo) was a week-long series of events that took place from May 18 to 25, 1810, in Buenos Aires, capital of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. This Spanish colony included roughly the terri ...
of 1810. In fact the hospital was built in several stages, and did not acquire its present form until much later than 1910.
References
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Santa Fe Province, Ministry of Health- List of health centers.
Centenario
Buildings and structures in Rosario, Santa Fe
Hospitals with year of establishment missing
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