Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi


The Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic is a university and public hospital. The Polyclinc is the largest hospital in Italy, and the first of the four public hospitals of the city of Bologna.
The Polyclinic has approximately 1,535 beds and 5,153 employees. Every year, it has 69,000 ordinary admissions, 139,000 emergency admissions, 33,000 surgeries and 3 million specialistic examinations. It has international excellence in some fields.
The hospital is affiliated with the School of Medicine and Surgery of the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna 1088.

Transplant

In Italy, the Polyclinic is the second biggest center for transplants of liver and kidney after the San Giovanni Battista Hospital of Turin; and also the second for heart after the San Matteo Polyclinic of Pavia. The Polyclinic performs also intestinal and multi-organs transplants. In 2008, for the first time in Europe, a multi-organ transplant heart-liver-kidney was performed.
In 2016, 243 transplants were performed
In ten years, 427 heart transplant were performed, with a survival rate of more than 90% at one year, and 80,5% at five year. Both outcomes are the highest nationwide.

History

The Sant’Orsola Hospital was founded in 1592 just outside the walls of the city.
In 1860-69, finally, it became home to the clinics of the Faculty of Medicine. The hospital was dedicated to Saint Ursula.
In 1978 it merged with the adjacent Malpighi Hospital built in the ‘70. The hospital was dedicated to Marcello Malpighi of Bologna, one of the greatest Italian histologist, anatomic and physiologist.

Structure

The hospital has thirty buildings, called padiglioni, which home 67 units grouped in 7 departments. It is organized as a “garden town” long more than 1 km.
The padiglioni are numbered from east to west.
Malpighi Area
Sant’Orsola Area