Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
The Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires is a private hospital in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . The hospital has 500 beds and treats an average of 2,000 patients per month on an area of 78,000 m² . It is available to both private and social patients. Hospital Italiano also has its own health insurance, which with 11,000 members is one of the most important in Argentina.
The first hospital
The hospital was originally an initiative of a commission made up of distinguished members of Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires. The foundation stone for the first building was laid on March 12, 1853. The property was a donation from the priest José Arata. Count Giovanni Battista Albini contributed 45,000 Argentine pesos to the construction on behalf of Victor Emanuel I. However, the construction was delayed again and again due to a lack of finances until 1858 the Unione e Benevolenza took over .
In 1865 the hospital was almost complete when the Argentine government asked for wounded Brazilian soldiers from the Triple Alliance War to be treated. It was not until 1867, the construction work continued to be back by a cholera - epidemic being disturbed. The Buenos Aires City Council rented the hospital for two years to care for the victims of the epidemic. It was then used again to take care of soldiers, and then for a yellow fever epidemic. The hospital was officially inaugurated on December 8, 1872.
The second building
The hospital administration concluded agreements with other immigrant organizations so that members of other nationalities could also be treated there, which quickly made the premises too small. A campaign was launched to raise funds for the expansion.
On December 15, 1889, the foundation stone for the new Hospital Italiano was laid. A plot of land bounded by the streets Gascón, Potosí, Palestina and Perón in today's Almagro district was available for this purpose. Among the guests were u. a. Elisa F. de Juárez Celman, wife of President Miguel Juárez Celman and an envoy of Umberto I. On December 21, 1901, the building was inaugurated. A nurses' school was opened in 1903, and in 1905 the hospital also became a medical and surgery institute.
On September 20, 1913, a new building, the Policlínico , was added to the hospital .
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Coordinates: 34 ° 36 ′ 23.7 ″ S , 58 ° 25 ′ 30 ″ W.