IMED Alicante opens its doors

• With more than 30,000 m², IMED Alicante becomes the largest private general hospital in the city and the first to open there in more than 25 years.

• The IMED group's fourth hospital in the province offers 98 rooms, 100 outpatient consulting rooms, 14 operating theatres and a 24-hour emergency department, among other services.

• Following an investment of approximately 60 million euros, IMED Alicante will employ more than 500 people once it is fully operational.

Healthcare group IMED Hospitales has opened the doors of IMED Alicante, its first hospital in the city and its fourth in the province, after its centres in Benidorm, Elche and Alcoy. With more than 30,000 m² and an investment of approximately 60 million euros, IMED Alicante becomes the largest private general hospital in the city and the first to open there in more than 25 years.

Located in the Vistahermosa Norte district, IMED Alicante begins operating with more than 250 staff and will reach 500 professionals once it is fully operational. The Alicante-based healthcare group's new centre has been designed as a general hospital offering all medical services and specialities, most notably paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, traumatology and orthopaedic surgery, and general surgery.

The hospital's services and admission areas are spread over a basement, a lower ground floor, a ground floor and several floors dedicated to inpatient care and outpatient clinics. IMED Alicante has up to 100 outpatient consulting rooms covering all medical and surgical specialities.

The facilities include 98 rooms, ten of them suites, as well as 14 general operating theatres, all of them integrated, and an interventional suite. The hospital features state-of-the-art technology at the service of patients. The surgical area is equipped with the da Vinci robot, particularly suited to urological, gynaecological oncology and general surgery procedures. In addition, IMED Alicante becomes the first private hospital in the Valencian Community to have the Mazor robot for neurosurgery and traumatology procedures. IMED Alicante also has a 24-hour emergency department with 12 cubicles and integrated ultrasound and digital radiology to streamline emergency care.

One of the hospital's most important and comprehensive areas is the Mother and Child Unit, which has a delivery area with 4 labour and delivery rooms, a dedicated caesarean section theatre, and a neonatal and paediatric ICU with 10 neonatal cubicles and two rooms for paediatric patients. The adult ICU has seven cubicles, two of them for patients in isolation.

The hospital will also house some of the group's main specialist units, such as Ilahy Medicina y Cirugía Estética (aesthetic medicine and surgery), IMED Dental, Ophthalmology, Cardiology and a Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Unit.

In diagnostic imaging, the centre has two MRI scanners (3 T and 1.5 T) and a 128-slice CT scanner, as well as the rest of the standard equipment: digital radiology, remote-controlled fluoroscopy, bone densitometry, digital mammography with stereotaxy, orthopantomography and digital ultrasound. The Nuclear Medicine Unit, which will come into operation in the coming months, is equipped with a digital PET-CT scanner and a gamma camera.

IMED Alicante works with the main health insurance companies, including Adeslas, Asisa, Sanitas, DKV, Mapfre, Occident, Caser, Aegon and Divina Pastora, giving virtually all patients with private health insurance access to its services.

IMED is one of the private hospital groups with the largest presence on Spain's Mediterranean coast. It currently has 8 general hospitals (Alcoy, Alicante, Benidorm, Elche, Gandía, Murcia and two in Valencia), 4 polyclinics (Teulada, Torrevieja, Gandía and Alcoy), a radiation oncology centre (Murcia) and a healthcare centre for international patients (La Cala de Villajoyosa). The group also expects to open its first hospital in Catalonia, in Cornellà (Barcelona), in 2027. IMED's team currently comprises more than 3,500 professionals.