Hospital de Santa Maria MHM (European Portuguese pronunciation: [ɔʃpiˈtal dɨ ˈsɐ̃tɐ mɐˈɾi.ɐ]; "Saint Mary's Hospital") is a public Central Hospital serving the Greater Lisbon area as part of the Northern Lisbon University Hospital Centre (CHULN), a State-owned enterprise. Santa Maria is the largest hospital in Portugal.
Hospital de Santa Maria | |
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Northern Lisbon University Hospital Centre | |
Geography | |
Location | Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal |
Coordinates | 38°44′55″N 9°09′38″W / 38.7485°N 9.1606°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | National Health Service |
Funding | Public hospital |
Type | Group III (Central Hospital) |
Affiliated university | Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
History | |
Opened | 27 April 1953 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in Portugal |
History
editSaint Mary's Hospital is located in the Cidade Universitária, the main campus of the University of Lisbon and ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, within the civil parish of Alvalade. Designed by German architect Hermann Distel, it was built from 1940 to 1953, meant as a new University Hospital housing the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ "História do Hospital de St. Maria". AEFML – Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2 June 2019.
- ^ "Hospital de Santa Maria – Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte". ern-cranio.eu. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019.