- Mexico currently has 3,655 hospitals with a total of 154,045 hospital beds and 6,819 operating rooms.
- The most recent edition of HospiRank shows the best equipped hospitals in Mexico in 8 categories.
- Some of the classifications are those with the best basic surgical equipment and those best prepared to receive high-risk patients.
In a fundamental area such as health, the training of professionals is not enough. They also need spaces with everything they need so they can do their job. In this way, patients also benefit because they receive a service with the most advanced technology possible. All this leads us to know the best equipped hospitals in Mexico.
How many hospitals are there in the country?
To obtain this classification each year HospiRank presents a ranking with the best hospitals in Latin America. The updated data for this 2022 reveal that Mexico has 3,655 hospitals, 154,045 hospital beds and 6,819 operating rooms.
Of the hospitals analyzed in the report, 63% are private and 37% are public. Those in the first sector have approximately 95 beds per hospital, while the private ones have 16 beds for each unit.
HospiRank arose from the need to have a vision of the best-equipped hospitals in Latin America. It focuses on the main markets in the region, such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Mexico. Was created by Global Health Intelligence (GHI), the leading health market research company in Latin America.
The data is obtained from HospiScopethe world’s largest database of Latin American hospitals. It offers more than 140 specific data by hospital and covers almost 90% of the hospitals in the region.
Global Health Intelligence created HospiScope in 2014, and its team of researchers continually update and expand the data found within it. A few days ago the results of the most recent edition were presented with the best-equipped hospitals in Mexico.
Hospitals recognized in 8 categories
- The best equipped to receive patients (Winning hospital: General Hospital of Mexico Doctor Eduardo Liceaga).
- The largest infrastructure for a high volume of procedures (Winning hospital: Hospital General de México Doctor Eduardo Liceaga).
- Highest amounts of basic surgical equipment (Winning hospital: Hospital General de México Doctor Eduardo Liceaga).
- The best equipped to care for newborns (Winning Hospital: Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Juan I. Menchaca).
- The best equipped for primary diagnosis (Winning hospital: General Hospital of Mexico Doctor Eduardo Liceaga).
- The largest installed base to treat cancer (Winning hospital: Instituto National Cancerology).
- The best equipped for advanced diagnostic imaging (Winning hospital: Hospital General de México Doctor Eduardo Liceaga).
- The best equipped for high-risk patients (Winning hospital: Hospital Civil de Guadalajara Fray Antonio Alcalde).
“HospiRank has existed since 2017 and unlike previous reports, this 2022 presents a breakdown of general hospital data for Latin America, aggregated in order to offer a broader view of equipment quantities, technological penetration, etc. Interviews with directors of some of the hospitals that appear in the ranking were also added, in order to better understand their needs and approaches regarding the acquisition of equipment, their handling of the COVID crisis and finally, a list was added. of hospitals in Latin America that have robotic surgery systems, given that these data are not widely disseminated and give an idea of the progress of Latin America in terms of this cutting-edge technology,” said Mariana Romero, Director of Market Intelligence at GHI.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Medical devices are a fundamental component of health systems. They are essential to prevent, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate diseases in a safe and effective way. The medical device market has grown rapidly in recent years following the technological trends of the health sector markets, which seek to improve people’s well-being.
HospiRank serves as a resource for medical equipment manufacturers, allowing them to see which hospitals carry specific types of equipment. It also serves as a benchmark for hospital administrators to compare themselves to ranked hospitals in terms of number of teams.
The areas where Mexico has experienced the greatest growth in recent years are in the following areas:
- Basic surgery: High and low temperature sterilization machines, surgery tables.
- Advanced surgery: Catheterization laboratories, endoscopy towers, laparoscopic surgery teams.
- Patient care: Patient monitoring systems.
- Diagnosis: Echocardiogram machines.
- Advanced diagnostic imaging: Fluoroscopy systems.