Hospital Naval Almirante Nef

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Industry Health care Area served South America Phone +56 32 257 3000		Headquarters Viña del Mar, Chile Website hospitalnaval.cl Founded 14 December 1927

Address Alessandri, Viña del Mar, Región de Valparaíso, Chile Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hours Similar Hospital Naval, Comandancia en Jefe de la Armada, Naval Hospital of Puerto Wi, Monumento a Los Heroes d, Reñaca beach

The Almirante Nef Naval Hospital (Spanish: Hospital Naval Almirante Nef) is the largest of the four hospitals in the health system of the Chilean Navy.

History

It was founded in 1927 in the city of Valparaíso, taking the name of Valparaiso Naval Hospital, which in 1933 replaced by Almirante Nef Naval Hospital in honor of Admiral Francisco Nef Jara, who fought for funding for the construction of this accommodation facility health in the port city of Valparaiso.

In the eighties, in an evaluation by the Health Directorate of the Chilean Navy, it became clear that hospital facilities were inadequate after an earthquake struck the city of Valparaíso in 1985 and the fire that occurred in boilers in the building. That is why the project was carried out of the new Naval Hospital.

In the conception of design and architecture of the new building for the Naval Hospital, to reflect concerns that are unique to a specific facility for the Armed Forces.

That is why their equipment and infrastructure have the capacity to deal with emergency situations of war or natural disasters which have a high incidence of traumatic pathologies and burned.

New hospital facilities were transferred to the new building in the city of Viña del Mar on December 14, 1990, presiding over the ceremony the Minister of National Defence Mr. Patricio Rojas Saavedra and the Commander in Chief of the Navy, Admiral Jorge Martinez Bush .

Chronology

Opening of the Naval Hospital in Valparaiso. (1927)

First Congress of Medicine and Surgery Naval and Military. (1929).

First arteriography performed in Chile. (1931)

For the first time in the world is achieved by directly treating the disease of Nicolas Fabre. (1939)

Inauguration of the building next door for the Pensioner and Maternity Services. (1952)

First heart transplant in Chile and second in the world in charge of Dr. Jorge Kaplan. (1968)

Construction of the Naval Medical Research Institute Specialized. (1978)

First liver transplant in the Naval Medical Research Institute Specialized.(1979)

Moving patients to new hospital, from Valparaiso, Viña del Mar.(1990)

Implement the Naval Health System.(1996)

Opening of the Cancer Institute of Viña del Mar.(2000)

Opening of the Intermediate Care Unit.(2005)

Pioneer cloqueares Implants in Chile.(2006)

Psychiatric Center Building.(2007)

Implementing Integrated with 4 Levels Pavilion "Basic- Advanced- Advanced- Advanced Plus Plus HD."(2009)

Clinical Campus

Clinical Campus operates as the "Naval School of Health" of the Chilean Navy and has agreements with prestigious higher education institutions that provide public and private health-related careers and are accredited by the Ministry of Health of Chile to provide area of medical science careers and the Ministry of Education of Chile in the academic area, and these are:

Universidad de Valparaiso

Universidad Andres Bello

Universidad de Las Americas

Instituto Profesional DuocUC

References

Hospital Naval Almirante Nef Wikipedia

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Contents

History

Chronology

Clinical Campus

References