Hospital Universitario de Canarias or University Hospital of the Canary Islands is a teaching hospital of general scope located in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Hospital Affiliated with the education and research network of the University of La Laguna it is under the directive of the Servicio Canario de Salud (Canary Health Service). The hospital has specialist facilities which not only serve Tenerife but the surrounding Canary Islands.
It was founded in 1971 under the name of General and Clinical Hospital of Tenerife on a floor area of near the Autopista del Norte de Tenerife surface. With a total of 2,534 professionals it is geared to health care in the north of Tenerife, and referral hospital for the island of La Palma.
It is near the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, a referral hospital in some specialties in Spain.Información del Gobierno de Canarias sobre hospitales y servicios de referencia The Hospital Universitario de Canarias was also the first hospital on the Canary Islands to hold the category of University Hospital,Una deuda pendiente con el HUC. A quien convenga hence its name.
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External links Official site (in Spanish)