The Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital in Lleida will transfer starting in May part of its surgical activity to other centers in the city to maintain normal operations during the expansion works of the surgical block. The reorganization will affect part of the scheduled surgeries, with the aim of avoiding an impact on waiting lists and guaranteeing patient care.
The plan foresees transferring up to seventy of the 136 weekly operations to the Santa Maria and Mi NovAliança hospitals. This is a temporary measure linked to the execution of the works, which require redistributing part of the healthcare activity while the facilities of the reference center in Lleida are expanded.
Minor complexity interventions in other hospitals
The operations that will be derived will be mainly those with low complexity entry. Among them are procedures from areas such as traumatology or urology. The activity will remain under the coordination of Arnau de Vilanova, since the transfer will be done with the hospital's own teams and it will be its professionals who will move to the other centers to perform the interventions.
Operations of greater complexity will be excluded from this referral. The hospital will continue to assume oncological, urgent, robotic technology-requiring, and pediatric surgery interventions in its facilities, which will continue to be performed at Arnau de Vilanova.
Expansion of the surgical block
The action is part of the project to expand the hospital's surgical facilities, a work with which the center will go from 14 operating rooms to 24. The objective is to increase operational capacity and adapt the device to the current needs of the health system.
This temporary reorganization is integrated into a broader plan to modernize healthcare infrastructure in Lleida. With this move, the hospital seeks to sustain its ordinary activity during the works and reach the new scenario with a broader surgical structure prepared to assume more care volume.