Hakima Ouaarab, a nurse at the Drassanes-Vall d'Hebron Centre for International Health and Transmissible Diseases, winner of the Nursing in Development Awards

The patients and staff at Vall d’Hebron wish you a Happy New Year and Good Health in 2018!

There are more than 3,000 nurses and nursing assistants at Hospital Vall d’Hebron. The work they do in the centre is vital and they are leaders both in nursing care and research. Getting to this point was a long process, as Mariona Creus, former nursing director, and Maria Àngels Barba, the current director, recall.

The Master's Degree in Biomedical and Translational Research is an official programme created to train researchers with the requisite combination of scientific knowledge and skills to contribute to the future success of biomedical research.

Vall d'Hebron University Hospital has signed an agreement with the Maria Canals Foundation and the Paliaclínic Foundation to install a piano in the main entrance for all those who want to play it: patients, visitors and staff.     

The winning proposal for the transformation of the Vall d’Hebron Campus is the project directed by Jordi Badia, Antoni Ubach and Miquel Espinet. The project presented by the architects includes a new research building for the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute, with an expandable area of 5,000 m2 and a budget of €15 million funded by ERDF (European Regional Development Fund). 

Hand hygiene campaign at Vall d’Hebron to inform staff and patients about the importance of good hand hygiene to avoid infections.

The constant search for excellence is part of Hospital Vall d’Hebron’s nature. The biggest hospital in Catalonia and the leader in many fields, headed since February 2015 by Dr. Vicenç Martínez Ibáñez, who has a close personal and professional relationship with the Hospital. Dr. Martínez Ibáñez says that if Vall d’Hebron did not exist, it would need to be invented. The current director trained at the hospital, where he was one of the protagonists of an historic moment: the first paediatric liver transplant in Spain. Now, he is committed to continuing this legacy and, always putting the patient first, achieving excellence across all staff.