The Doctor José Molina Orosa Hospital has achieved the status of University Hospital, a consideration that will allow medical students to "carry out their clinical practices at the center", as nursing students have already been doing. In this way, the center emphasizes that "in addition to healthcare activity, teaching and scientific research are promoted."
The new accreditation culminates the file initiated by the Management of the Lanzarote Health Services, after requesting the Specialized Health Training Service of the Canary Health Service for the steps to follow to achieve said accreditation, since it understood that the necessary requirements were met. In this process, the hospital has shown that "it meets the criteria established by the standard to obtain the consideration of University", such as having "certain material and human resources, as well as verifying the healthcare, teaching and research activity of the center in recent years."
In the field of clinical research and scientific activities, the management presented "a report that includes the work carried out by the staff in the area", which includes "almost a hundred research projects, studies, communications, presentations and publications." Regarding training, the Health Department points out that the center has been hosting "students from the ULPGC Nursing School in Lanzarote for three decades to carry out their clinical practices."
According to the manager of Molina Orosa, José Luis Aparicio, this consideration is due to "the good work carried out by the management's professionals and the research and teaching activity they carry out."
Molina Orosa is a center accredited for specialized health training by the Ministry of Health in various medical and nursing specialties. Currently, residents are trained in Family and Community Medicine, Geriatrics, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.
The Health Department details that this year it has also received accreditation "to train specialists in Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology." In addition, the Hospital obtained recognition in 2015 as a "Center Committed to Excellence in Care," which demonstrates its commitment to the application, evaluation and maintenance of Good Practice Guides.
The manager of the hospital center values that Molina Orosa has maintained since its birth, in 1989, "its commitment to excellence and that obtaining this recognition." "It is the result of the good work carried out by all the professionals of the institution and represents a challenge for the future to continue improving healthcare, teaching and research activity," said Aparicio.
