The Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic (official Italian name: ''Azienda ospedaliero-universitaria Policlinico Sant’Orsola Malpighi'') is a public research hospital and district general hospital in Bologna. The Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic is the largest district general hospital in

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, and the first of the four public hospitals of the city of

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, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Ospedale Bellaria). 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 Hematology (American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe, spelled haematology in British English) is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to bloo ...

hepatology Hepatology is the branch of medicine that incorporates the study of liver, gallbladder, biliary tree, and pancreas as well as management of their disorders. Although traditionally considered a sub-specialty of gastroenterology, rapid expansion ...

pediatric surgery Pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of surgery involving the surgery of fetuses, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. History Pediatric surgery arose in the middle of the 1879 century as the surgical care of birth defects required ...

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

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magazine, the hospital is the 27th best in the world for

cardiology Cardiology () is the study of the heart. Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery di ...

, 28th for

endocrinology Endocrinology (from ''endocrine system, endocrine'' + ''wikt:-logy#Suffix, -ology'') is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. It is also concerned with the ...

and 37th for

gastroenterology Gastroenterology (from the Greek gastḗr- "belly", -énteron "intestine", and -logía "study of") is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract, sometime ...

Transplant

In Italy, the Polyclinic is the second biggest center for

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liver The liver is a major metabolic organ (anatomy), organ exclusively found in vertebrates, which performs many essential biological Function (biology), functions such as detoxification of the organism, and the Protein biosynthesis, synthesis of var ...

(487 in 2000-05) and

kidney In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organ (anatomy), organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation. They are located on the left and rig ...

(424) after the San Giovanni Battista Hospital of

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; and also the second for

heart The heart is a muscular Organ (biology), organ found in humans and other animals. This organ pumps blood through the blood vessels. The heart and blood vessels together make the circulatory system. The pumped blood carries oxygen and nutrie ...

(212) after the San Matteo Polyclinic of

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. 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 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.

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

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(now the patron saint). In 1978 it merged with the adjacent ''Malpighi Hospital'' built in the ‘70. The hospital was dedicated to

Marcello Malpighi Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 30 November 1694) was an Italians, Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "founder of microscopical anatomy, histology and father of physiology and embryology". Malpighi's name is borne by ...

of Bologna, one of the greatest Italian histologist, anatomic and physiologist.

Structure

The hospital has thirty two buildings, called ''padiglioni'' (pavilions), which home 84 units (specialist and support) grouped in 9 departments. It is organized as a “garden town” long 1,8 km.Policlinico S.Orsola Malpighi/Map
/ref> 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) * 31 ''Padiglione Ercolani'' * 32 ''Padiglione

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(CRI)

References

External links

official site in Englishmap of the hospital
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