| Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic | |
| Location: | Bologna |
| Region: | Emilia-Romagna |
| Country: | Italy |
| Beds: | 1,535 |
| Type: | District General, Teaching |
| Affiliation: | University of Bologna |
| Emergency: | I |
| Speciality: | Teaching hospital |
| Opened: | 1592 |
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. Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinc is the largest district general hospital in Italy, and the first of the four public hospitals of the city of Bologna (Ospedale Maggiore, 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, 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]
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]
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.[7]
The hospital has thirty two buildings, called padiglioni (pavilions), which home 84 units (specialist and support)[8] grouped in 9 departments. It is organized as a “garden town” long 1,8 km.[9]
The padiglioni are numbered from east to west (from the furthest to the closest to the city center).
Malpighi Area
Sant’Orsola Area