The Clínica Universidad de Navarra has begun construction work on its new headquarters in Madrid. The new hospital center will start its healthcare activity at the end of 2016 and will occupy a total surface area of approximately 30,000 m2, located at the end of Alcalá street.

The new headquarters is the second phase of the hospital's development in the capital of Madrid, where it has been operating since 2004 in a polyclinic, located next to place de Castilla, at issue 10, Calle General López Pozas. Currently, the activity of the Madrid hospital is limited to outpatient consultations, diagnostic imaging and major outpatient surgery in two operating rooms. From its beginnings, this site had a provisional character while waiting to locate the ideal place to develop a more complete clinical project with enough beds for hospital admissions.

The new location gathers the necessary requirements to expand the assistance activity of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra in Madrid, in addition to a better location for access from anywhere in the capital, as well as from other geographical points.

Location and positions of work

The new hospital center, on which work is now beginning, will occupy a 45,000 m2 site. Located between Avenida América-A2, Puente Felipe Juvara and Calle del Marquesado de Santa Marta, the site is very close to the end of Calle Alcalá (where there is a subway station a ten-minute walk away), a 5-minute drive from Barajas Airport T2 and accessible from the M-40 and M-30, 10 minutes from Chamartín train station and 15 minutes from Puerta de Atocha Station.

The new project is expected to generate around 200 direct work jobs in addition to the 90 already existing at the current Madrid headquarters, bringing the total to approximately 300.

The building will occupy a total area of approximately 30,000 m2 built above ground and 6,000 m2 more for parking and facilities. The building is a project developed by the architectural firm ACXT, of the business IDOM.

One hospital, with two sites

director This second phase of development of the Clinic in Madrid "responds to the growing demand of the patients who are currently treated in the existing outpatient center and who demand a center with the possibility of hospital admission", says the Clinic's general manager, José Andrés Gómez Cantero, and adds: "The aim is to reinforce the activity of the Pamplona center where patients requiring more specific treatments will be referred".

In addition, the aim is also to "bring the hospital closer to other parts of Spain and facilitate access to patients from other countries, thus consolidating its international character," he reveals.

The new Clinic will house medical specialties organized around four large areas, which bring together the most prevalent pathologies: area for Women, area Cardiovascular, area Oncology and area for High Resolution Diagnostics (check-ups, high resolution consultations and preventive procedures). "It is intended to be a hospital especially oriented to outpatient processes and medical consultations of the most frequent pathologies, equipped, in turn, with 6 operating rooms for major surgery, 60 beds for hospital admissions and state-of-the-art clinical equipment, including a PET-CT for diagnostic imaging for Nuclear Medicine and linear accelerators for oncological treatments," describes the general director .

With the new center in Madrid up and running, the mode of operation will be that of a single hospital with two sites, one in Pamplona and the other in Madrid. "The operation of the two centers will be integrated, in a unitary manner. In fact, there will be a single management body, a single address at each department medical and general services center, as well as a transversal action between the different medical services of both sites," explains the medical director . The Clínica Universidad de Navarra in Madrid will also participate in the training projects for resident doctors and in the clinical research developed in Pamplona.

According to director general, "the Clinic is an integral part of the University of Navarra, with the same principles of identity and the same formative spirit for students and residents".