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In a statement, the Mello Saúde group affirms that the opening of the hospital will take place in a staggered manner with the availability of outpatient areas – consultations and examinations, including clinical and imaging tests, as well as the oncology day hospital – starting today.
In a second phase, which will last until the end of the year, the remaining care areas will be opened, namely hospitalization, operating room, intensive care unit, special examinations and permanent adult care.
According to the note, the hospital unit will have more than 1,700 professionals, 10 operating rooms, including a hybrid room and a robotic surgery room, 213 general hospital beds, 14 intensive care beds and 178 doctor’s offices. and exams.
The hospital will also have permanent care for adults and unscheduled pediatric care, an imaging service with three MRIs, two CT scans, six ultrasound scans, three X-rays, a mammogram, among other equipment, as well as an oncology day hospital. and medical day hospital.
The unit estimates that it will carry out 465 thousand specialty consultations per year, 80 thousand episodes of permanent care / year, 80 thousand daily (hospitalization) / year and 23 thousand surgeries / year.
The hospital represents an investment of more than 170 million euros and “was designed to prevent, diagnose and treat the diseases of the future and is focused on creating value for patients, families and caregivers and for health professionals (promoter research clinical training and undergraduate and graduate health).
According to the note, the CUF Tejo Hospital is “the first Portuguese hospital totally focused on the patient, organizing itself around 14 Clinical Centers to guarantee a personalized, integrated and complete response.”
Each Clinical Center consists of several functional units of pathology, with a multispecialty approach, it is explained in the note.
The hospital has a Heart and Vessel Center, a Center for Surgery and Digestive Pathology, a Center for Children and Adolescents, Dermatology, Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Endocrinology and Nutrition, Medicine, Prevention and Aging, a Center for Women, Neurosciences, Ophthalmology, Oncology , Orthopedics and Musculoskeletal, Otorhinolaryngology, Lung and Urology.
The note also highlights that CUF Oncology has a Breast Unit and an inpatient wing reserved for the Palliative Care Unit.
“With the new CUF Tejo hospital, CUF’s Oncology teams have access to state-of-the-art technology, either in the context of diagnosis or in the monitoring of the evolution of treatments, specifically in the areas of Neurosurgery, Robotic Surgery and Radiology of Intervention ”, referring to.
The CUF Tejo Hospital is assumed to be a teaching hospital designed to integrate undergraduate and graduate university training activities and translational research in the daily life of clinical teams.
With more than 600 m2 dedicated exclusively to teaching, the teaching hospital includes a Simulation Center, simulation technology and augmented reality, surgical amphitheater, auditorium with 108 seats, Foyer prepared for clinical events, multipurpose rooms that can be converted into an auditorium, digital library with spaces for individual study and multiple meeting rooms.
The hospital has an area of more than 75,000m² distributed in six floors above ground and four underground and parking for approximately 800 places.
“The opening of the CUF Tejo Hospital is the realization of a coherent, solid and differentiating clinical project that materializes, once again, CUF’s culture of innovation and reinforces its leadership in the provision of benchmark healthcare in Portugal”, says Salvador de Mello, Chairman of the CUF Board of Directors.
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