{"entity":{"id":"bellvitge","kind":"institution","name":"Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge","aka":["Bellvitge University Hospital","HUB","Hospital de Bellvitge"],"tldr":"A public university hospital on the edge of Barcelona that provides cancer care together with the Catalan Institute of Oncology on the same campus. With the institute, a research institute and the University of Barcelona, it forms a campus recognised as a comprehensive cancer centre.","summary":"The Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge describes itself as a public, university, research hospital with 5,200 professionals, the local hospital for L'Hospitalet and El Prat de Llobregat and a referral centre of the highest complexity for 2 million people in southern Catalonia. It says oncological care is delivered in coordination with the Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO) through functional units, that research is done with the Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), and that it is linked to the University of Barcelona's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Bellvitge campus. Its areas of expertise include oncological care and robotic surgery, and its Centre d'Alta Precisió Diagnòstica houses a PET/MRI scanner.\n\nThe Campus Salut Bellvitge, made up of the hospital, ICO, IDIBELL and the University of Barcelona, is recognised by the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) as a Comprehensive Cancer Centre; eight projects involving its staff were funded by La Marató de 3Cat's cancer call, out of 38 funded from 201 proposals. Newsweek and Statista rank the hospital 227th in World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge","url":"https://www.bellvitgehospital.cat"},{"label":"Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 227 (Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Barcelona)","url":"https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology"},{"label":"Bellvitge: who we are","url":"https://www.bellvitgehospital.cat/ca/qui-som/lhospital"},{"label":"Bellvitge: eight Comprehensive Cancer Centre Campus Salut Bellvitge projects funded by La Marató de 3Cat","url":"https://bellvitgehospital.cat/ca/actualitat/noticia/vuit-projectes-del-comprehensive-cancer-centre-campus-salut-bellvitge-reben"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["ico-catalonia"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Barcelona","country":"ES","lat":41.345,"lng":2.104,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://www.bellvitgehospital.cat","newsweekOncology2026":227,"programs":["Oncology functional units with the Institut Català d'Oncologia","Comprehensive Cancer Centre Campus Salut Bellvitge (OECI)","Centre d'Alta Precisió Diagnòstica (PET/MRI)"]},"route":"/institutions/bellvitge/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"ico-catalonia","kind":"institution","name":"Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO)","route":"/institutions/ico-catalonia/"}],"collection":[{"id":"newsweek-hospitals","kind":"collection","name":"Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology","route":"/collections/newsweek-hospitals/"}]}}