The president of Cantabria, María José Sáenz de Buruaga, announced this Friday that the Sierrallana Hospital, in Torrelavega, will have its Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Unit in early 2025 which will be attended by 26 professionals. Furthermore, he has advanced that During this term the project for the new hospitalization building will be undertaken.
“We must not stop. The improvement and expansion of this hospital has to continue and will continue,” The president has guaranteed during the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the hospital, where she has reiterated the “unbreakable” commitment of her Executive to public health, with 73 million euros more in the budget in 2025 – “an extra injection that has enormous impact and meaning “- and the greater volume of resources allocated to the recognition and improvement of the working conditions of SCS personnel.
As specified, the Acute Psychiatric Unit will have two specialists in psychiatry, one in psychology, seven mental health nursing professionals and a supervisor. In addition, it will progressively incorporate six auxiliary nursing care technicians, six guards, an occupational therapist, a social worker and an administrative assistant.
“Excellence is in the DNA of Sierrallana and my Government is going to live up to it so that this hospital continues to be the great pillar that it is for thousands of patients and their families,” said Buruaga, who has considered this center “a key and irreplaceable piece of the public health service”, and its professionals “the greatest value of the hospital”.
He has had words of recognition and gratitude to all of them, from the medical and nursing professionals, assistants and orderlies, “who provide assistance and care to patients”, to the administrative and management staff, and support services, who ” ensures that everything runs smoothly and correctly.
For the president, this anniversary is the celebration of a “milestone for the entire region, the result of a collective effort, the sum of great generations of professionals, the infinite trust of thousands of families and the firm commitment of successive governments, which have made this hospital a reference model”.
Regarding the future of the center, he acknowledged that Health is going through “a time of great difficulties derived mainly from the lack of professionals.” “There is a lot to rebuild professionally and in terms of care after the abandonment of recent years, but we know how to do it, we want to do it and we will do it together,” said Buruaga, who encouraged the center to “keep the spirit of Sierrallana alive.”
During the celebration of the hospital’s anniversary, the president was accompanied by the mayor of Torrelavega, Javier López Estrada; the managing director of the Sierrallana-Tres Mares Hospital, Yolanda Montenegro; the medical director, José Luis Díaz; the director of nursing, María Ángeles Moreno, and the director of management, José Carlos Martín.
QUALITY HEALTH CARE: “THE BRAND OF THE HOUSE”
The Sierrallana Hospital was inaugurated on November 1, 1994 as a regional hospital, with 350 professionals, as recalled by the president, who have currently grown to around 1,500 who serve a population of 170,000 inhabitants in the western and southern areas of Cantabria.
During these three decades, consultations have multiplied by seven, hospital admissions by four and surgical interventions have doubled. “A spectacular growth in quality and quantity” that has been accompanied by “important advances in training and research”, the expansion of services and technological equipment and the improvement of infrastructure in emergency and surgical units.
Buruaga also recalled the opening of the Pediatric emergency room and the digestive endoscopy that she inaugurated precisely during her time as Health Minister, which are added to the new specialized consultation building and the conversion of the hospital into an associated university center for postgraduate training.
The accreditation as a general hospital has been the last major milestone and “the reward for the hard work carried out over the years to modernize and expand medical and surgical services”, according to the president, who highlighted the “firm commitment to offering health care of quality and more humane”. “Because that is the brand of the house,” he added.
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