Barcelona will open the first emergency clinic for the elderly and frail people

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The Hospital de Sant Pau, in Barcelona, ​​will have a high-resolution emergency clinic for people over 65 years of age and frail people. This ambitious project of growth, modernization and digitalization will avoid the "hypermedication" of this type of patients and will provide a rapid surgical response to problems such as broken bones, among others. It will be called QCare, will be ready before 2025 and will be similar to the covid buildings that many hospitals built during the pandemic. It will be approximately 5,000 meters long and will cost between 12 and 14 million euros.

The Sant Pau Hospital will launch a device before 2025 to care for people in fragile situations , most of them older people , with an emergency room and an operating room, among other services  .

The idea is that the current Frailty Care Device of Special Data the Emergency Service ( DAFSU ) becomes a “ small hospital ,” highlighted yesterday the managing director of this hospital, Adrià Comella, who presented the strategy for the coming years. Also before 2025, Sant Pau will plan a second phase of expansion, with a new building that will add 35,000 m2 to the current 110,000 m2.

In innovation , they are committed to investing above all in areas that they have defined as excellence: neurosciences, cardiovascular, gene therapies and hematology, and complex surgeries. One of the strategic objectives set by the Sant Pau Hospital, according to Comella, is “ to obtain the best results for the reference population .” And this is the reference hospital center for a population of 400,000 at the community level and 700,000 for highly specialized services.



Comella has stated that they aspire to expand the hospital with some 35,000 more square meters with this strategic plan, which will allow them to grow " a lot " in surgical capacity , in mental health care and in maternal and child care , he highlighted.

One in four patients is over 65 years old. For this reason, one of the main projects for the coming years will be the High Resolution Emergency Clinic for Aging, with the provisional name of Qcare.