Hospital Clínico San Carlos

The Hospital Clínico San Carlos is a hospital located at the Ciudad Universitaria neighborhood in Madrid, Spain, part of hospital network of the Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS).

Hospital Clínico San Carlos
Geography
Location	Calle del Profesor Martín Lagos, 2, 28040, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Organisation
Affiliated university	Complutense University of Madrid
Network	Servicio Madrileño de Salud
Services
Beds	861
History
Opened	20 January 1951
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Spain

It is one of the healthcare institutions associated to the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) for the purpose of clinical internship.[1]

History

It is the successor of the namesake Hospital de San Carlos located near the calle de Atocha and inaugurated on 1 October 1787.[2] The idea for the new building dates back to 1927, during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera.[3] Following a project by Manuel Sánchez Arcas (with Eduardo Torroja as structural engineer),[4] the building works started in 1932,[5] during the Second Republic. The project stood out by the beamless slabs of the cantilevered balconies and by the cover of the operating rooms (both elements unseen in Spain up to that date).[6] The hospital was still unfinished by the time of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, when the Ciudad Universitaria became part of the frontline. Reconstruction works were resumed in 1941.[7] Despite the hospital started operations on 20 January 1951, as the chair of General Pathology was transferred then from Atocha,[8] building works lasted until 1967, when the last services provided at the old hospital were finally transferred to the new building.[3]

As of 2019 it has 861 beds.[9]

References

Citations

1. "Centros Sanitarios Adscritos para las Prácticas Clínicas". Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
2. "El Hospital Clínico San Carlos conmemora sus 225 años de historia". Madridiario. 1 May 2012.
3. Pieltáin Álvarez-Arenas 2003, p. 106.
4. "Hospital Clínico de San Carlos". Guía de arquitectura de Madrid. COAM.
5. "El Hospital Clínico cumple 225 años". ABC. 7 May 2012.
6. Antuña Bernardo 2003, p. 126.
7. Pieltáin Álvarez-Arenas 2003, p. 43.
8. "La reinauguración". Comunidad de Madrid.
9. "Catálogo Nacional de Hospitales 2019" (PDF). Ministerio de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar Social. p. 325.

Bibliography

• Antuña Bernardo, Joaquín (2003). "Manuel Sánchez Arcas (1897-1970) y Eduardo Torroja Miret (1899-1961)" (PDF). Manuel Sánchez Arcas: Arquitecto. Madrid: Fundación COAM. pp. 123–131. ISBN 84-932542-5-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Pieltáin Álvarez-Arenas, Alberto (2003). Los hospitales de Franco: la versión autóctona de una arquitectura moderna (PDF). Madrid: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)