- University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova
The University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova (officially, Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova in Catalan) is a public medical institution in
Lleida ,Catalonia ,Spain , and the biggest one in the surrounding area ("terres de Lleida" or "terres de Ponent") and province.It was opened in
1956 . Not to be confused with a hospital in Valencia calledHospital Arnau de Vilanova , the hospital in Lleida is run by theCatalan Health Institute (ICS) and has a total of 447 beds. Nowadays named after theValencian physicianArnau de Vilanova , its first official name (during the Francoist dictatorship) was "Residencia Sanitaria General Moscardó" and belonged, at first, to theInstituto Nacional de Previsión (INP) and then toINSALUD until1981 , when it was transferred to theGeneralitat de Catalunya .ee also
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Lleida
*List of hospitals in Spain External links
* [http://www.arnau.scs.es/ Hospital Universitari Arnau de Vilanova official website]
* [http://www.gencat.net/ics/ ICS official website]
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