University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova

The University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova is a public medical institution in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, and the largest one in the surrounding area and province.It was opened in 1956. Not to be confused with a hospital in Valencia called Hospital Arnau de Vilanova, the hospital in Lleida is run by the Catalan Health Institute and has a total of 447 beds. Nowadays named after the Valencian physician Arnau de Vilanova, its first official name was Residencia Sanitaria General Moscardó and belonged, at first, to the Instituto Nacional de Previsión and then to INSALUD until 1981, when it was transferred to the Generalitat de Catalunya.