Sant Joan de Déu Hospital

Sant Joan De Déu (SJD) Children’s Hospital in Barcelona is a private, non-profit institution that focuses on providing premium healthcare services. Since 1867, our hospital has been dedicated to comprehensive care for women, children and adolescents, and has become one of the most important specialised paediatric centres in Europe.

Our care is based on the multidisciplinary work of our professionals. Through the Sant Joan de Déu Research Foundation, we conduct research to find new and better treatments for paediatric diseases.

The activity and high degree of specialisation at SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital makes it one of the most important hospitals in Europe that treats mothers, children and young people. Our Hospital treats more children and young people in Spain than any other. We provide patients with comprehensive care, especially patients with complex diseases.

Each year, the Hospital records more than 25,000 hospital admissions and major outpatient operations, about 238,000 outpatient visits and 122,000 emergency-room cases. This is large-scale and complex work that gives us vast experience in treating our patients.

Speciality

1- Bone Marrow Transplantation

We are specialists in bone marrow, umbilical cord blood or peripheral blood transplants in children. In the Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit we attend to those children who, at some point in the treatment of their illness, require a bone marrow, umbilical cord blood or peripheral blood transplant.Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a key treatment in curing many children who present:
Hematological and Oncological Illnesses
Genetic illnesses: Iimmunodeficiencies, Haemopathies and Metabolopathies

When a patient requires a transplant, it is important for highly specialised professionals to analyse his/her case in detail. Our Unit is devoted exclusively to pediatric bone marrow transplants.

2- Oncology & Haematology

The SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital’s Oncology and Haematology Department is the national reference centre of for the treatment of developmental cancer and an international reference centre for determined types of tumors.

3- Cardiology & Heart Surgery

The Heart Area comprises the different departments which provide services to patients with diseases: the Cardiology Department and the Heart Surgery Department. Our professionals diagnose and treat babies, children and adolescents who present with congenital structural heart defects, arrhythmias and cardiac electric conduction disorders, and congenital or acquired heart pathologies from the fetal stage to adulthood. We strive to offer the patient the best possible treatment with the standards of the best hospitals in the world. We are one of the areas with the lowest surgical mortality rates in Europe, as well as a very low re-operation rate.

4- Orthopaedics & Traumatology

The Pediatric Orthopaedics and Traumatology Department studies and treats traumatic, congenital and acquired disorders in the locomotive system from birth through to maturity. Our work is based on six pillars:

Reference centre.
Superspecialisation.
Multidisciplinarity.
Scientific Activity.
High level of technology.
The patient at the centre of all our activity.

5- Genetics

Activity in the Genetic and Molecular Medicine Department at the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital focuses on genetic diseases appearing in infancy and adolescence. We receive consultations from all of the Hospital’s departments. We maintain constant scientific collaboration with the Neurology and Neonatology Departments, as well as with Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Fetal Medicine (BCNatal), since, in our Department, we perform the tests necessary for antenatal genetic and reproductive diagnosis. We work closely with the Pediatric Institut for Rare Diseases (IPER) and we form part of the group of diagnostic laboratories used by the Hospital. We perform genetic and genomic analyses for diagnosis and genetic counselling of our patients, as well as for our researchers.

6- Rare Diseases

Here at the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital we treat complex patients referred from all over Catalonia, Spain and other parts of the world. Among these, for many years we have traditionally treated a considerable number of children suffering from rare diseases, which affect fewer than 5 people per 10,000 inhabitants. The SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital is one of the three member centers of the first network of specialist clinical units (XUEC in Catalan) for the care of minority diseases created by the Catalan Health Service. We have experience in more than 1, 200 types of rare diseases, three quarters of which affect fewer than 4 children, and are recognised as ultra-rare. Thus, we are one of the most experienced centres in Spain in dealing clinically with these pathologies. This extensive experience makes us unique, and accordingly, in 2015, the Hospital established a specific transversal Department, the Pediatric Institut for Rare Diseases (IPER), with the objective of making progress in the treatment of and research into rare diseases.

7- Nephrology

The SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital is one of the most experienced hospitals in Spain in the treatment of paediatric kidney diseases. At the Nephrology department, we provide a service for patients from all over Spain, and to those from other countries asking for a second opinion, swiftly and with a very short waiting list. We are a recognised centre in Spain through the certification of national reference centre. We have a track record spanning more than 40 years, endorsed and acknowledged within Spain, and increasingly beyond our borders, from where paediatricians from many countries, particularly from Central and South America, request specialisation visits. We are co-founders of the Spanish Paediatric Nephrology Society and members from the beginning. We work closely with the Spanish Nephrology Society (SEN) as well in those aspects concerning paediatric pathology.

8- Surgery

In the SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital’ Surgery Department we treat all surgical pathologies: malformations, infectious, inflammatory or oncological nature from the general, digestive, thoracic, urological, plastic and maxillofacial areas in children and adolescents. This care includes a wide range of procedures, from the simplest, which can be conducted as an outpatient, to the most complex. The Hospital has an impressive antenatal diagnosis programme, making it possible to plan the most suitable treatment for different congenital pathologies, including fetal therapy intrapartum surgery and postnatal surgery. In recent years, our Department has been prominent in the implementation and development of different procedures, particularly in minimally invasive surgery. The ultimate aim of these innovative techniques is to obtain the best clinical results, lower surgical aggression, swifter recovery, and the incorporation of patients and their families to normal activity.