HOSPITAL DE ALTA COMPLEJIDAD EN RED EL CRUCE
A memorial plaque honoring late President
Nestor Kirchner
El Cruce - Nestor Carlos Kirchner Hospital is located in the city of Florencio Varela , a vicinity southeast of the Greater Buenos Aires area . El Cruce serves also patients referred from seven health institutions in nearing municipalities Berazategui , Quilmes and Almirante Brown , all of them located between the cities of Buenos Aires and La Plata . Currently , patients nationwide are referred to this high complexity hospital for special treatments unavailable in some provinces .
The hospital ’ s resident specialists are on rotation within the area ’ s health network hospital , providing a complete coverage of this zone ’ s population .
Hospital hallway at daylight
Planning for El Cruce-NHK started on 2006 , and the 242,000-plus sq . ft facility opened in 2008 , after receiving more than $ 20 million in subsidy . The hospital has 171 beds , and more than half of them are used for intensive care patients ( both adults and pediatric care ), cardiovascular recovery and for the coronary care unit .
El Cruce is accredited with international memberships from global organizations such as ISQUA and has been certified for 16 ISO global standards . El Cruce also became the first Argentine hospital outside the country ’ s capital where multi-organ and other transplants are performed .
56 August 2015