Garcia de Orta Hospital (HGO) started its activity in September 1991. In 2003, it was classified as a Central Hospital, unique on the south bank of the Tagus. In 2006, it was classified as a Public Business Entity (EPE).
HGO's mission is to provide differentiated medical assistance to the population of the municipalities of Almada and Seixal and to develop pre- and post-graduate education activities for health and research professionals.
The HGO serves an estimated population of 344,000 inhabitants and its area of influence extends to the entire south of the country in the specialties of Neonatology, Neurosurgery and Vascular Surgery. The Hospital's gradual development and the population's need for assistance led it to provide new services, such as Kidney and Corneal Transplantation, the Polyvalent Emergency Room for the entire Setúbal Peninsula, Intervention Cardiology Unit, Emergency in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon for Acute Stroke and Brain Aneurysms and Intra-Hospital Palliative Care Teams for Adults and Pediatrics.
The Hospital has been accredited by CHKS since 2010 and has several certified services: Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Pathology, Pathological Anatomy, Operating Room, Pediatrics and Obstetrics, Center for Infertility and Assisted Medical Reproduction, Center for Sterilization, Control, Planning and Management.
Two Reference Centers have been created in recent years - Colorectal Cancer and Interventional Neuroradiology. It has also an Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment Center.
HGO has been recognized nationally and internationally for its care activities and continuous quality improvement and for pioneering some projects, such as Home Hospitalization and innovation in access to medicines for chronic patients in the nearby hospital residence or community pharmacy, which served as a model for the NHS.
The Hospital annually admits through the Emergency Service an average of 163,700 patients and hospitalizes 21,000. It performs about 17,000 surgeries/year, 298,000 medical consultations, 32,800 day hospital sessions and 2800 deliveries. It employs around 2800 employees.The Garcia de Orta Center (CGO), created in January 2012, has the mission of increasing the hospital's scientific knowledge production capacity, throughout the systematic promotion and coordination of Training, Teaching and Research activities.
The objectives of the CGO are:
- Encourage and develop scientific, clinical and other research projects in the hospital universe;
- Develop scientific and technological knowledge through training in scientific research methodology;
- Identify and protect technological innovations and scientific knowledge developed at the Hospital, for the dissemination or creation of patents;
- Establish partnerships and affiliation agreements with public or private entities, national or foreign, related to its mission;
- Organize courses, training and teaching actions;
- Collaborate and encourage exchanges with national and international institutions, within the scope of scientific activity;
- Capture public and private resources to achieve these goals.