This morning the Minister of Health, Manel Balcells i Díaz, visited the Parc Taulí Hospital in Sabadell to learn about the new healthcare spaces that have come into operation in the last year. He also met with the center's management and professionals.
One of the largest works has been the construction and equipment of 8 highly complex operating theaters on the second floor of the Frontal Gran Via building, which have been connected to the old surgical block, located on the second floor of the Taulí building. The new operating theaters became operational in December 2023 and work is now underway to refurbish the old operating theaters. With this action, the Parc Taulí Hospital will have a total of 16 operating theaters, six more than it had before.
Along with the new operating theatres, the Intensive Care Unit has also been expanded, in the same Taulí building, but on the first floor. It should be noted that an Emergency Resuscitation Unit (REA) has been created within the ICU with 9 individual boxes for post-surgical patients who need life support with mechanical ventilation and polytrauma patients. The highly technical REA is considered a SmartUCI or intelligent ICU. It treated the first patients in June 2024.
The Minister of Health has stated that "We have seen all the works and the impetus they mean, I would say it is a new hospital within the old hospital. The improvements make a fantastic hospital of first level, very competitive and which can provide the quality solution that the entire area of influence of Sabadell, which has 400.000 inhabitants, needed and needs. The Parc Taulí has historically been undersized and, for that reason, there is this assistance pressure that still lasts".
Manel Balcells added that "there is a change in the way it works in processes that we have seen is working, there are some improvements also in the emergency room with boxes that greatly dignify the stay under observation while waiting for admission, and there are some improvements in the operating rooms. All of them mean that the activity of the Taulí has increased, that it is one of the reference hospitals in Catalonia both at teaching and research level, and that it was necessary to bring it up to date".
The joint work of the surgical block and expansion of the Intensive Care Unit has cost 15 million euros financed with European REACT funds.
Improvements to the emergency service
Another of the outstanding actions of the last few months has been the start of the remodeling of the Emergency service, on the ground floor of the Taulí building. In a first phase, the Short Stay Emergency Unit has been launched, with almost two thousand square meters and 20 rooms (ten doubles and ten singles). This unit is a transitional space - very comfortable and with natural light - where patients stay for a maximum of 72 hours. It is the first time that the Taulí has individual rooms for patients with isolation or at the end of life. An observation room with 16 cubicles has also been opened in the emergency room, in a quiet environment of around two hundred square meters.
Once the first phase of works has been completed, the awarding process for the next phase will begin, which will consist of the reform of the current adult and pediatric emergency rooms. Works are expected to begin at the end of 2024 and last two and a half years.
During his stay at Parc Taulí, Councilor Manel Balcells also visited the new endoscopies office (with 5 rooms and a recovery area) and the new pediatric outpatient clinics and the pediatric day hospital, in the building Santa Fe The new space has 35 consulting rooms and the day hospital has 5 rooms plus a common room with 6 individual areas for diagnostic and therapeutic tests. Parc Taulí attends to the pediatric specialties of pediatric surgery, genetics, pulmonology and allergology, neurology, gastroenterology and hepatology, endocrinology, cardiology, rheumatology, infectology, hematology and nephrology.
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