Professional Hospital Guaynabo is a private general hospital in
Guaynabo
Guaynabo (, ) is a city and municipality on the northeastern coastal plain of Puerto Rico. Located west of the capital San Juan, east of Bayamón, south of Cataño and San Juan Bay, and north of Aguas Buenas, Guaynabo is spread over 9 barrio ...
,
Puerto Rico
; abbreviated PR), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Government of Puerto Rico, self-governing Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island organized as an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territo ...
. It encompasses the Vascular Institute of Puerto Rico—site where the first vascular stent in Puerto Rico was placed. The institution has been treating
vascular Vascular can refer to:
* blood vessels, the vascular system in animals
* vascular tissue
Vascular tissue is a complex transporting tissue, formed of more than one cell type, found in vascular plants. The primary components of vascular tissue ...
conditions in Puerto Rico since 1988. The hospital currently specializes in general surgery procedures, orthopedics, plastic surgery and vascular procedures, becoming the first hospital in Puerto Rico to specialize in blood circulation.
History
The hospital first began as a small community hospital in the city of
Manatí. It then moved, with an initial investment of $65 million, to the city of Guaynabo becoming a 202 licensed-beds project.
["New hospital and medical building developing in Guaynabo" Caribbean Business Newspaper, Issued : 06/12/2008, By : LIISA NIDO NYLUND]
Mission and purpose
Professional Hospital Guaynabo is organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to develop health care facilities in Puerto Rico. The organization places special emphasis on minimally invasive surgical procedures to elderly patients and preventive and therapeutic management of circulatory ailments.
Puerto Rico has one of the highest incidence rates of
diabetes mellitus
Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained hyperglycemia, high blood sugar levels. Diabetes is due to either the pancreas not producing enough of the hormone insulin, or th ...
in the world and continues to rise. These conditions have an enormous health, economic and psychological impact on the population, principally on the elderly segment, which reflects the highest relative and absolute growth in this decade. For the advancement of less invasive and newer procedures, new technology and modern facilities must be developed.
Location
Even though the municipality of Guaynabo is surrounded by a large metropolitan area, it had no hospitals within its municipal boundaries prior to Professional Hospital. For this reason, medical facilities in Guaynabo are important centers for providing health care services not only to the adjacent medical community but also to sister clinics already operating in
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John (disambiguation), Saint John, most commonly refers to:
* San Juan, Puerto Rico
* San Juan, Argentina
* San Juan, Metro Manila, a highly urbanized city in the Philippines
San Juan may also refer to:
Places Arge ...
,
Bayamón and the city of
Manatí. A medical office building is also being developed by Professional Hospital in Guaynabo which will include an Imaging Center.
Vascular clinics
Professional Hospital has developed two outpatient circulation clinics – "Clínicas Especializadas en Circulación" (Clinics Specialized in Circulation) in Guaynabo and Manatí – to serve a patient population that covers a great portion of the northern part of the Puerto Rico. Services include preventive, diagnostic and medical treatment procedures.
References
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2009 establishments in Puerto Rico
Hospital buildings completed in 2009
Hospitals in Puerto Rico
Buildings and structures in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Hospitals established in 1988