Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic

The Gemelli Hospital (Italian Gemeli Gemelli ) is a university hospital in Rome. It is part of the Medical and Surgical Faculty of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and was on 10 July 1964, Pope Paul VI. opened.

The hospital was named after the Franciscan monk and doctor Agostino Gemelli, who was among the founders of the University in 1921. It has about 1,800 beds, 39 departments and employs approximately 5,000 employees. Every day it is attended by about 20,000 people. 2001, a 23,500 -square-foot new building was opened, which includes 25 operating rooms, laboratories and infection Station.

The hospital complex is located in the north-west of Rome on Monte Mario overlooking the Vatican City. The site was the Medical and Surgical Faculty in 1934 by Pope Pius XI. donated. It is spread over 37 acres on the border of a national park. It's like a small town organized, has its own church, research laboratories, a convention center, a bank, a library and a heliport.

In the tenth floor of the hospital is a suite of rooms, that is reserved for stays of the Pope. This includes a chapel, a kitchen and bedroom for nuns and employees of its surroundings. Pope John Paul II had to go to the hospital ten times, including after the assassination of 1981, 1981-2005.

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