Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi

Sant’Orsola-Malpighi
Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi. Photo by Paolo Monti, 1974.
Geography
Location	Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Organisation
Affiliated university	University of Bologna
Services
Emergency department	Level I trauma center
Beds	1535
History
Founded	1592
Links
Website	http://www.aosp.bo.it/
Lists	Hospitals in Italy

The Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic (official Italian name: Azienda ospedaliero-universitaria Policlinico Sant’Orsola Malpighi) is a university and public hospital. It is the first of the four “top” hospitals of the city of Bologna, Italy (Ospedale Maggiore, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Ospedale Bellaria).

The Polyclinic has approximately 1,535 beds and 5,153 employees (857 doctors). Every year, it has 69,000 ordinary admissions, 139,000 emergency admissions, 33,000 surgeries and 3 million specialistic examinations. The Polyclinc is one of the best and largest hospital in Italy. It has international excellence in some fields (oncologic hematology, hepatology, pediatric surgery).

The hospital is affiliated with the School of Medicine and Surgery of the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna 1088.

In Italy, the Polyclinic is the second biggest center for transplants of liver (487 in 2000-05) and kidney (424) after the San Giovanni Battista Hospital of Turin; and also the second for heart (212) after the San Matteo Polyclinic of Pavia. The Polyclinic performs also intestinal and multi-organs transplants. In 2008, for the first time in Europe, a multi-organ transplant heart-liver-kidney was performed.

In 2016, 243 transplants were performed

The Sant’Orsola Hospital was founded in 1592 just outside the walls of the city (now ring road). In 1860-69, finally, it became home to the clinics of the Faculty of Medicine. The hospital was dedicated to Saint Ursula (now the patron saint). In 1978 it merged with the adjacent Malpighi Hospital built in the ‘70. The hospital was dedicated to Marcello Malpighi of Bologna, one of the greatest Italian histologist, anatomic and physiologist.

The hospital has thirty buildings, called padiglioni (pavilions), which home 67 units (specialist and support) grouped in 7 departments. It is organized as a “garden town” long more than 1 km.