The Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal is a public general hospital located in the Valverde neighborhood, in

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, 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 The University of Alcalá () is a public university located in Alcalá de Henares, a city 35 km (22 miles) northeast of Madrid in Spain and also the third-largest city of the region. It was founded in 1293 as a ''Studium Generale'' for t ...

for the purpose of clinical internship.

History

Named after the Spanish winner of Nobel Prize for Medicine

Santiago Ramón y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal (; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or M ...

, it was opened on 18 October 1977, receiving the nickname of , after Pyramidon, a analgesic administered very often at the time. It was criticised back then because of its location, cost and size. It developed the first service in Spain for pediatric cardiology (1977) and the first unit of

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(1979). Aside from the teaching and medical attention features, it is noted by its research prowess (the first in the region in scientific research production), particularly in the scope of

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and

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s. As of 2017 it has 901 beds. 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.

References

Buildings and structures in Fuencarral-El Pardo District, Madrid Ramon y Cajal {{Spain-hospital-stub