Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB) belongs to the Catalan Health Institute (ICS) and is one of the 5 major university hospitals in Catalonia, recording 30,700 annual discharges, of which 34.9% are high complexity. Founded in 1972, Bellvitge University Hospital nowadays is a 700-bed tertiary-care teaching facility that had been acclaimed with the TOP 20 ranking of the best hospitals in the state in the last four consecutive years. With more than 3.900 professionals, HUB is giving high technology medical care for over 2 million people.