We are the combination of four hospitals: the General Hospital, the Children’s Hospital, the Women’s Hospital and the Traumatology, Rehabilitation and Burns Hospital. We are part of the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus: a world-leading health park where healthcare plays a crucial role.
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The Vall d'Hebron Clinical Laboratories perform more than 22 million determinations per year and have 3,500 different tests in their service portfolio.
Clinical Laboratory Facilities
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The Vall d’Hebron Clinical Laboratories are the largest hospital laboratories in Spain and one of the largest in Europe. They provide a comprehensive service to the Hospital and primary care centers throughout the city of Barcelona.
The Vall d’Hebron Clinical Laboratories, which currently perform more than 22 million determinations per year and have 3,500 different tests in their service portfolio, were inaugurated in 2015 as a transversal and integrated structure, based on networking between specialized services.
The Clinical Laboratories, which serve more than 7,000 patients per day, not only process samples from patients admitted to the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, its Emergency Department and outpatient consultations, but also respond to requests from Primary Care centers in the city of Barcelona, with a population of 1,600,000 inhabitants.
The Clinical Laboratories are made up of the services and units of Pathological Anatomy, Clinical Biochemistry, Genetics, Clinical Genetics, Laboratory Hematology, Immunology, Clinical Immunology and Microbiology and are structured around a large, highly automated central laboratory (Core), with a common sample reception area and cross-platforms to optimize technological resources and knowledge. The Core processes 80% of the activity, the bulk of the determinations necessary for screening, diagnosis and monitoring of the most common diseases.
The Clinical Laboratories employ nearly 500 highly qualified professionals, among whom laboratory technicians stand out. They combine classic and state-of-the-art tools in Laboratory Medicine, developing, in addition to assistance, an important task in research and teaching. The Clinical Laboratories occupy a total area of 8,780 m² distributed in three adjacent buildings and are equipped with the most advanced robotics technology and information systems.
Leading-edge automation technology has been implemented in the Core Laboratory, which allows for better security and traceability of samples throughout the process, faster processing and an increase in capacity to more than 55,000 daily results. Automation allows us to handle the large volume of samples and maintain the quality and expertise that is inherent in being a reference hospital. The future of the Clinical Laboratories is marked by the automation and mainstreaming of equipment and new AI tools to improve the diagnosis and prevention of diseases.
Clinical Laboratories are much more than a technical mechanism or a tool in the healthcare system: they are a key space where science is put at the service of health.
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