Quality
Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital is equipped with the most advanced technology. He relies on constant improvement which allows him to carry out international stays of quality health care. It is a hospital accredited by the Spanish Ministry of Health as a reference center in Spain.
Experience
With more than 150 years of experience, Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital is a center of reference for the care of children and pregnant women. He has extensive experience in the care of foreign patients. He is highly specialized in pediatric fields such as: cardiology, maternal-fetal and neonatal, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, trauma, oncology and ophthalmology.
Guaranteed comfort
The facilities and equipment are renovated constantly. The rooms are individual and have an additional bed so that parents can spend the night with their child. In addition, the hospital has a playroom and a service that accompanies children when parents are away. Other factors contribute to patient comfort: the mild climate of Barcelona throughout the year, the excellent Mediterranean diet and the location of the facilities, right in the center of the city.
Satisfaction
The high percentage of success of the interventions carried out fosters the total customer satisfaction. Many new patients come to the clinic on the recommendation of satisfied former patients. The emergency department at Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital is chosen as the highest-rated hospital department in Catalonia. Families appreciate the information and help received with an average score of 8.6.
Sant Joan de Déu Pediatric Hospital (Barcelona, Spain) is an international benchmark in childhood cancer and rare hematological diseases.
Every year, specialists treat 2,000 children and adolescents with cancer.
The hospital with the highest success rates:
Retinoblastoma in advanced stages: 90% Eye-preservation index
Focal brain tumor: 90% survival rate
Localized Ewing’s sarcoma: 84% Cure rate
Localized osteosarcomas: 85% Cure index
One out of four children with childhood cancer treated at Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital comes from outside Spain due to the highly complex therapies offered at the center. For example, immunotherapy to treat the most aggressive cases of neuroblastoma is only offered in Sant Joan de Déu and at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
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Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Pediatric Hospital (Barcelona, Spain) has the best experts to treat all types of heart diseases. It is one of the European hospitals with the lowest surgical mortality and a very low reoperation rate.
Every year 8,000 children with heart disorders are treated and 600 successful surgeries are performed.
The hospital with the highest success rates:
Survival rate: 98.8% after cardiac surgery.
Less than 1% of patients need reoperation in the immediate postoperative period due to complications.
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Sant Joan de Déu Pediatric Hospital (Barcelona, Spain) runs the Pediatric Institute for Rare Diseases (IPER) that treats rare diseases that affect less than 5 people per 10,000 inhabitants.
The center has extensive experience in more than 1,200 types of rare diseases. Definitely, it is the European reference center for rare diseases in children and adolescents.
Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital (Barcelona, Spain) has highly specialized doctors in bone marrow transplantation.
It is the hospital with the highest success rates:
90-100% success in autologous and related donor transplants.
70-80% success in haploidentical and unrelated donor transplants.
Sant Joan de Déu pediatric hospital (Barcelona, Spain) is an international benchmark center in the treatment of children with vision problems.
Doctors are subspecialized in all eye diseases that affect the retina, the pupil, the eyelid, the eyeball, the lacrimal, the optic nerve, the musculature, among others.
The department of pediatric ophthalmology has received five RCSU (Reference Centres, Services and Units) accreditations from the Spanish Ministry of Health. Thus, Sant Joan de Déu pediatric hospital has become an international center of reference in congenital glaucoma, penetrating keratoplasty, extraocular tumors, intraocular tumors and orbital tumors.
At Sant Joan de Déu children’s pediatric hospital most children from Spain with eye problems are visited. All specialists have extensive experience in diagnosing the most complex vision problems.
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Sant Joan de Déu is a pioneer center in highly complex interventions, including scoliosis surgery, limb reconstruction and microsurgery.
Hospital Sant Joan de Déu is an international reference center for the complexity of the cases it treats, for its success rate and its volume of patients.
Some of the most specialized areas worldwide are:
Complex pathologies of the locomotor system
Scoliosis
Brachial plexus surgery
Clubfoot Treatment
Treatments with growth factor PRP.
The hospital with the highest success rates:
More than 95% of patients recover after trauma surgery.
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Inguino-genital pathology (inguinal hernia, cryptorchidism, phimosis)
Pathology of the abdominal wall (umbilical hernia, epigastric hernia)
Congenital cervicofacial cysts (thyroglossal and dermoid cyst, brachial arch fistula).
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Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Gastroschisis
Omphalocele
Fetal therapy
Extracorporeal Membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
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Pulmonary malformations
Chest deformities
Palmoaxillary hyperhidrosis
Arrhythmias
Reconstruction of esophageal atresia
Tracheoesophageal fistula
Esophageal replacement
Pathologies of the digestive tract and other organs of the abdomen and treated through a minimally invasive approach.
Gastroesophageal reflux
Hiatal hernia
Crohn’s disease
Ulcerative colitis
Hirschprung’s disease
Anorectal malformation.
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Pediatric neurology
Learning disabilities in children
Movement disorders in children
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Pediatric dermatology
Pediatric endocrinology
Refractory epilepsy
Metabolic diseases in children
Neuromuscular diseases in children
Sports medicine
Pediatric nephrology
Pediatric neurosurgery
Pediatric otolaryngology
Pediatric rheumatology
Pediatric urology
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Over 120,000 emergencies per year.
More than 25,000 surgical interventions per year.
More than 3,200 births per year.
Over 235,000 specialist consultations per year.
More than 600 specialists.
The center has the first pediatric clinical trial unit in Spain and also has a tissue and tumor bank.
DECEMBER 2019 Sant Joan de Déu again receives a TOP 20 award. The TOP20 Hospital Program evaluates more than 150 hospitals throughout the Spanish state. The hospital has received this recognition nineteen times.
SEPTEMBER 2019 Success in the first thermal laser ablation performed in Spain on a child with a brain tumor. It is a very new surgical technique that is performed in few centers due to its complexity.
SEPTEMBER 2019 A brainstem implant allows sounds to be perceived by a patient suffering from profound hearing loss. This technique allows treating congenital auditory malformations that in other countries are considered unviable.
FEBRUARY 2019 The Sant Joan de Déu Hospital successfully operates a 1,310-gram baby who suffered from unremitting ventricular tachycardia. It is the smallest baby in the world who has had a cardiac ablation.
JANUARY 2019 for the first time in the world Sant Joan de Déu treats a pediatric retinoblastoma with an oncolytic virus.
JUNE 2018 the researcher Guillem Pascual Pastó receives one of the most prestigious awards in world pediatric oncology in recognition of his research work on retinoblastoma. The Société Internationale d’Oncologie Pédiatrique (SIOP) awards the Odile Schweisguth Prize each year to the best researcher in the field of childhood cancer.
MARCH 2018 for the first time, a team of neurosurgeons operates an awake 15-year-old girl to remove the focus of her epilepsy.
MARCH 2018 for the first time in Spain, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu implants the first wireless pacemaker in a teenager.
DECEMBER 2017 Cardiologist Josep Brugada is among the 50 best doctors in Spain according to Forbes magazine. Dr. Brugada leads the Arrhythmia Unit of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital and is an expert in the prevention of sudden infant death. Dr. Brugada is rated among the top 5 Spanish cardiologists.
OCTOBER 2017 Surgeons at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital operate on an open heart for a large premature baby to correct a serious congenital malformation that would have caused death.
SEPTEMBER 2017 The Sant Joan de Déu Emergency Department is chosen as the highest rated department of hospitals in Catalonia. Families value the information and assistance received with an 8.6.
DECEMBER 2016 The Catalan government distinguishes the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital with the Josep Trueta plaque for health merit 2016 for its contribution to the advancement and improvement of healthcare.
MAY 2016 Cardiologist Georgia Sarquella receives the National Prize for Pediatric Cardiology.
AUGUST 2015 for the first time traumatologists from Sant Joan de Déu reposition the shoulder blade by endoscopy to a child born with this bone at neck height.
JANUARY 2014 The team of heart surgeons at the Sant Joan de Déu children’s hospital performs a pioneering intervention on a premature baby of one and a half kilograms with very serious heart disease. It is the first time that a premature baby with these characteristics has been successfully operated on.
JANUARY 2008 The Sant Joan de Déu Hospital places a bionic hand in a pediatric patient for the first time in Europe.
Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital
Passeig de Sant Joan de Déu, 2
08950 Esplugues del Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain)
Nearest metro station: Zona Universitària
