The Sant Jaume de Mataró Hospital closes and relocates the 76 admission places

The Maresme Health Consortium (CSdM) will begin to progressively relocate the confinement activity of the Old Hospital of Sant Jaume and Santa Magdalena, an intermediate care center located in a historic building in Mataró, which closes its doors because the building does not have the required security measures.

The decision to relocate, agreed upon with the Health Department and the Mataró City Council, is made after this week the municipal administration has initiated a closure procedure because the building does not comply with current fire regulations. To adapt it, structural works would have to be carried out that would force the center to be emptied for a long period of time.

Based on this, and taking into account that the processing of the new Mataró HAI is underway, the Maresme Consortium (CSdM) has assessed that it is preferable to plan now the relocation of the hospital admission activity to other centers instead of addressing the works.

The income activity. Right now, work is being done to relocate the 76 admission places between the Mataró Hospital, the Hospital de la Esperanza in Barcelona and another health center yet to be specified. Home hospitalization for convalescent patients will also be increased. The expected period to manage the relocation is four months, therefore, it does not affect the patients currently admitted, who will remain in Sant Jaume until discharge. The objective is for new admissions to be made progressively in the new centers. The adaptation of the staff is also being managed, which will be relocated with the patients and, therefore, will be temporarily displaced.

Outpatient activity. Regarding the outpatient activity that is currently provided in the Old Hospital of Sant Jaume and Santa Magdalena, the CSdM has proposed to the City Council to locate it on the ground floor, carrying out a specific renovation. This means that non-admission services (psychogeriatric and rehabilitation day hospitals, geriatric and allergy outpatient clinics, and Dependency Care Center consultations) would remain in the current building. These services mainly serve elderly people with mobility impairments and, often, some type of disability. Therefore, it is important to keep them in their usual environment.

A new hospital with 244 beds. The new Mataró HAI will have 244 hospitalization places for patients who require functional recoveries or care and for patients with advanced chronic illness or in the process of end of life. It will also have 82 day hospital places. In total there will be 14 thousand square meters of constructed area, on land located in front of the Mataró Hospital, currently used as a parking lot.

The Health Department is working to accelerate as much as possible the procedures for the construction of the new equipment, which will definitively resolve the intermediate care needs in the territory. The City Council has already transferred the land and the new hospital is scheduled to come into operation in the first quarter of 2027.