Clínica Alemana

Santiago - Chile

January 2011

Clínica Alemana de Santiago was established in 1905. It is a subsidiary of the

Corporación Chileno Alemana de Beneficencia, a non profit organization that

reinvests its surplus in social projects dedicated to education and charitable

causes. Since August 2008 it has Joint Commission International accreditation.

With over a century of tradition, Clinica Alemana de Santiago stands out as

one of the largest and most modern private clinics in Chile. Facilities are

distributed over 100,000 square meters of floor –space.

This institution also provides clinic and hospital services at its locations in Temuco

and Valdivia (south of Chile) and La Dehesa in Santiago.

Clínica Alemana de Temuco Clínica Alemana de Valdivia

Centro Médico Clínica Alemana

La Dehesa

Clínica Alemana has a collaboration agreement with Hospital Padre Hurtado, one of

Santiago´s main public hospitals, providing public health care system patients with access to

complex diagnostic and treatment procedures through an extensive health and welfare

assistance program.

Clínica Alemana takes part with Universidad del Desarrollo, in a medical school project,

which nowadays has seven heatlh-related careers.

The clinical campus is Hospital Padre Hurtado.

Medical School

Clínica Alemana – Universidad del Desarrollo

Careers:

• Medicine

• Nursing

• Odontology

• Nutrition and Dietetic

• Medical Technology

• Kinesiology

• Phonoaudiology

Over 3.048 people work at Clínica Alemana including physicians, nurses, other health care

professionals and administrative staff, who are in continuous training.

Annually more than 51.710 hospitalized patients receive attention. Clínica Alemana has

425 inpatients beds, 18 operating rooms, 2 post - anesthetic recovery units, a modern

sterilization center, intensive care units for adults, children, neonatology and coronary

disease treatment, among other facilities.

Integral Attention Maternity room

(Sala SAIP)

Maternity hospitalization bed

Pediatric hospitalization bed

Clínica Alemana has all the back up services for diagnosis and ambulatory procedures:

Clinical Laboratory – which performs more than 600 different type of examinations -

Blood Bank, computed tomography, magnetic resonance, radiotherapy, pathologic

anatomy and a complete Diagnosis Center where all the medical specialists are fully

dedicated to treating patients.

Advanced therapeutic and diagnosis procedures are routinely performed. Angiography,

hemodynamics, lithotripsy and digestive endoscopy rooms have the most modern

equipments.

In march 2007 Clínica Alemana opened a modern building of 16 floors and 27,000 square

meters for appointments with 700 specialists. It also has 4 surgical procedure rooms, an

ambulatory recovery unit, medical specialisms laboratories, hemodialysis, a reproductive

medicine laboratory and a complete medical information center (virtual scientific library).

There is also a parking lot for patients and relatives with capacity for 1,800 vehicles.

Clínica Alemana counts on a General Emergency Service for adults and children and an

Emergency Service for school aged children which was the first of its kind in the country,

and which is dedicated exclusively to treating trauma injuries. Together, this services see

on average over 600 patients a day.

A complete Imaging Department, where advanced invasive and non-invasive procedures

are conducted on a digitalized basis.

Overall patient management and follow –up are enhanced through the use of electronic

clinical records, enabling clinical history, diagnostic images and laboratory examination

results to be available online for hospitalized and ambulatory patients.

A pioneer in prevention, the Clinic counts on a complete Preventive Medicine Service

geared to maintain and protect patients´health by anticipating and preventing risks to

improve diagnosis, treatment and quality of life.

Within this area, the International Patient Service facilitates the coordination and attention

for foreign patients.

The Scientific Educational Department plays a very important role in the professional and

academic development of the medical staff. To fulfill its mission, this department provides

research funding and support, scholarships and organizes a complete schedule of clinical

courses and activities as part of its continuing medical education program. It also

coordinates videoconferences with national and international institutions, fellowship

programs, statistic consultancy and operates the virtual medical information center (CIM).

Auditorium Scientific Educational Department Staff

For scientific and academic exchange, professional training and the update of medical

knowledge, Clínica Alemana has cooperation agreements with prestigious hospitals and

medical centers in the United States and Europe:

• Mayo Clinic, United States (1997)

• The Cleveland Clinic, United States (1999)

• The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, United States (2001)

• MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States (2003)

• Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany (2004)

• Heidelberg University Medical School, Germany (2004)

• German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany (2004)

• Ludwig Maximilian Universitat of München, Germany (2004)

• Reproductive Medicine Center of the Brussels Free University Dutch Speaking, Belgium (2005)

• Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, United States

• Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Chest Disease Center, Beth Israel

Deaconess Medical Center -a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, United States (2010)

• Thoraxklinik UniversitätsKlinikum Heidelberg, Germany (2010)

The mission of Clínica Alemana de Santiago is to provide high-quality, comprehensive

patient care, and to contribute to the development of medical knowledge for the benefit of

the community.