70 years of history at the service of people

President Illa inaugurates the new Vall d’Hebron Research Institute building and is committed to promoting the Teixonera Outpatient Care building.

World’s first fully robotic lung transplant using a new access route.

Vall d’Hebron Hospital performs, for the first time in Spain, three lung transplants on the same person.

The project of the new Vall d'Hebron Outpatient Care building on the Teixonera grounds is announced.

The new organizational model is implemented by areas of knowledge.

Vall d’Hebron Hospital surpasses 1,000 paediatric transplants.

The Nou Vall d'Hebron is presented: the new buildings and the improvement of the existing ones.

First-ever extraction and transplantation of lungs from a baby donated in controlled cardiac arrest in Spain.

A girl with an ultra-rare genetic mutation becomes the first paediatric patient in Spain to undergo triple heart, liver and kidney transplantation.

The entire Hospital is transformed into a space dedicated to dealing with Coronavirus. Vall d’Hebron welcomes more ICU patients than any other hospital in Spain. The WHO recognizes our management.

Vall d’Hebron, Bombers de la Generalitat and SEM save the life of a woman with severe hypothermia who was in cardiac arrest for over six hours.

Vall d'Hebron opens to the nearest territory. The relationship with AIS Nord devices is intensified.

We lead the birth of European University Hospital Alliance (EUHA).

Presentation of the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus Transformation Plan.

Inauguration of the Surgical Block.

Presentation of the Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus brand.

60th anniversary of Vall d’Hebron University Hospital.

Inauguration of the VHIO Laboratory. Cellex Building.

First surgical treatment for spina bifida in Spain.

New clinical laboratories, the result of joining together three laboratories: Manso, Bon Pastor and the laboratories of Vall d’Hebron University Hospital.

Inauguration of the Multiple Sclerosis Center (Cemcat).

Opening of the Cellex Theatre, a hybrid, state-of-the-art theatre funded by the Cellex Foundation that functions as an operating room and haemodynamic room.

Successful separation of two siamese twins joined at the abdomen and liver.

Inauguration of the new Paediatric ICU.

World’s first full face transplant.

Inauguration of the Collserola Building (VHIR), located on the upper part of the hospital campus
 

First intestinal transplant in Catalonia.

Creation of the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO).

Inauguration of the Mediterrània Building of the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute.

First lung transplant in Spain for an infant.

Creation of the Catalan Pharmacology Institute Foundation, an organisation associated with Vall d'Hebron Hospital and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).

First umbilical cord blood transplant.

First multiorgan liver and kidney transplant in Spain.

Creation of the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR).

Vall d'Hebron signs the first contract with the Catalan Health Service. This was a vital step towards more business-like management of the hospital.

Creation of the Catalan Health Service.

First lung transplant in Spain.

The Maternity and Children's Hospital comes into operation, the result of the fusion of the former Maternity Hospital and the Children's Clinic.

First paediatric liver transplant in Spain.

Constitution of the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) as the organisation responsible for managing the Social Security healthcare centres and services in Catalonia.

First paediatric kidney transplant in Catalonia.

The first case of HIV in Spain is diagnosed at Vall d’Hebron Hospital.

Catalonia is the first region to take on devolved health competencies.

Incorporation of the Hospital as a teaching unit with the UAB.

First paediatric haemodialysis in Spain.

Creation of the first paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Spain.

Inauguration of the Maternity Hospital and the Children's Clinic.

Inauguration of the Traumatology and Rehabilitation Hospital.

The Nursing School is launched. The Vall d’Hebron nursing school pioneered the very definition of the nursing school in Spain.

The halls of residence are converted into the Healthcare Complex.

Incorporation of the first surgical teams to handle surgical emergencies and the first intern doctors.

Vall d'Hebron General Hospital is inaugurated.