Mataró will have a new intermediate care hospital with 244 beds that will replace the Sant Jaume and Santa Magdalena hospitals. The new building will be built in the parking area in front of the current hospital center and will be put out to tender next summer.
The Minister of Health, Manel Balcells, and the mayor of Mataró, David Bote, confirmed that the capital of Maresme will house a new intermediate care hospital with 244 beds "as soon as possible". Balcells explained that the new equipment will be built in the free parking area in front of the current Hospital de Mataró, will have an estimated cost of around 13 million euros and will foreseeably be put out to tender in the summer, after the council makes the final assignment of the land. . It will have 82 day hospital beds, will be for long-term and elderly patients, and will replace the old Sant Jaume and Santa Magdalena hospital.
"As soon as the city council gives us the definitive transfer of the land, we will put the project up for tender" so that "the works can begin", Balcells has detailed, adding that this process will be carried out "very soon" in the municipal plenary session of killed The next step will be to tender the project, which he estimates will take between two and three months, and the work in four or five more months. The minister reported that both his department and the council are interested in the works going quickly and that they will force "so that this is the case."
The minister considered that the new hospital will be a "model" center. And it is that, for the Department of Health, "intermediate care is basic and important", since "it allows care for chronic and multi-pathological patients and relieves both primary care and hospitals" and "above all, it improves the quality of patients' lives. In fact, the will of Salut is that the new building can respond to the future needs of the Maresme region.
For his part, David Bote assured that for Mataró it is "very good news" that this new hospital center is going ahead. The mayor explained that they have been working hard to make it a reality "carrying out the urban planning and land disposal procedures." "It will be an important boost for public health care in Mataró and the region", he concluded.
The new hospital will have 244 hospitalization places for patients who require functional recovery or care and for patients with chronic disease that has evolved or is in the process of end-of-life. It will also have 82 day hospital beds. The objective is that it can respond to the future needs of the Maresme region. The center, with an initial budget of 13 million euros, will be located on land opposite the Hospital de Mataró, on the Cirera road, occupying part of the current provisional car park and adjoining land. In total there will be 14,000 square meters of constructed area.
The municipal plenary session last December unanimously approved the municipal will to accelerate all the necessary actions to obtain ownership of the land classified as a sanitary equipment system in the urban area of the Cirera road.
Currently, the measurement works of the farms are being finalized to adjust the data of the Property Registry with those of the General Directorate of the Cadastre. The calendar provides that during the month of May the new registration in the Property Registry will be made and then the transfer file will begin with the Generalitat so that the bidding procedures for the work can begin.
