Santa Cruz de Tenerife, April 28, 2025. Hospiten Sur University Hospital has set up a new Care Unit (ICU). The aim of this new space is to improve the quality of physical care with greater medical presence in intensive care 24 hours a day.
The medical director of the Hospiten Sur University Hospital, Dr. Tomás Febles, explains that the completion of the modernization work "was completed last November." "It has a new access through the Outpatients ramp, located in the area next to the Endoscopy room," he points out.
The unit has 18 beds with a high level of comfort, isolation cubicles with the possibility of positive and/or negative pressure, more space and natural light. In addition, it is equipped for the care of patients with treatments and care that require special monitoring, treatment and interventions that can only be performed in this unit. This includes polytrauma, situations of critical worsening of certain diseases that are potentially recoverable and postoperative care of major interventions (code infarction, code ictus, neurosurgery ...) and high-risk patients.
As for the services and complementary tests that have been installed in the Intensive Care Unit, the head of the Service emphasizes that a modern and complete central patient monitoring system has been set up, which together with invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation and a counterpulsation balloon with left ventricular support, "will ensure the good care of the critical patient".
Dr. Tomás Febles points out that this new Intensive Care Unit at the Hospiten Sur University Hospital guarantees the highest quality healthcare services for patients. "With this facility Hospiten continues to promote its commitment to the creation of wellness ecosystems, always focusing on caring for people," he concludes.
About Hospiten
Hospiten is an international healthcare network with more than 55 years of experience committed to providing the highest quality service, with 20 private medical-hospital centers in Spain, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Jamaica and Panama, in addition to 175 outpatient medical centers, under the Clinic Assist brand. Founded by Dr. Pedro Luis Cobiella, it annually attends more than three million patients from all over the world and has a staff of more than 5,000 people, a number that will be reinforced in the Community of Madrid thanks to the construction of a general university hospital in Boadilla del Monte, which is expected to be completed in 2026.
MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid - Hospiten is a subsidiary of the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (Texas, USA). With more than 20 years of history in Spain, MD Anderson Madrid - Hospiten currently has a Phase I Clinical Trials Unit, more than 150 medical specialists trained in oncology, a total of 87 hospital beds and state-of-the-art technological equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of different types of cancer.
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