The event was attended by representatives of the best private hospitals in Spain.

Last Tuesday, March 21, Dr Rafael Cobiella, Executive Board Member of the HOSPITEN Group, was presented by José María Pino, editor of Sanitario 2000, the award recognizing HOSPITEN Rambla as runner-up to the best private hospital in Spain, chosen by the readers of the digital newspaper Redacción Médica, doctors and other medical professionals.

The event, held at the Madrid restaurant Castellana 179, was attended by Antonio Bartolomé, president of the National Federation of Private Clinics (FNCP), as well as representatives of the best private hospitals in the country.

HOSPITEN Rambla offers facilities and state-of-the-art technology, as well as leading specialties such as Cardiac Surgery, Neurosurgery, Interventional Cardiology and Angiology, and is a point of reference in Spain in the application of minimally invasive techniques. In addition, the center has 97 hospitalization beds, 5 Operating Rooms, 1 Birthing Room, Intensive Care (ICU), State-of-the-art Medical Technology (Magnetic Resonance, Catheterization Laboratory, Multi-slice CAT Scan, Stereotaxic Table), Nuclear Medicine, Outpatients, Emergency Room, Biopathology Laboratory and Radiology.

HOSPITEN Rambla has been audited and certified by AENOR, and was awarded the Quality Assurance Certificate under International Regulation ISO 9001:2001 having successfully undergone audits of all their medical-hospital services. In addition, the center was awarded the ISO 14001 Certificate for correct management of the environment.

Being a point of reference nationwide in the application of minimally invasive techniques, coronary revascularization without off-pump surgery, valvular surgery (port-access), aortic root translocation, awake coronary by-pass, reparation of abdominal aorta aneurysms, endovascular treatment of carotid artery stenosis, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, percutaneous closure of the oval foramen, gastric endocapsule or 16-slice CAT scan, undoubtedly have been decisive factors in such an achievement.

The HOSPITEN Group is an international healthcare network committed to offering first rate medical services. With 35 years experience, the HOSPITEN Group has twelve private hospitals in Spain, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, attends over 500,000 patients from all over the world annually and employs more than 2500 people.