| The Anita Moreno Regional Hospital at La Villa de Los Santos | |
| Org/Group: | Ministerio de Salud de Panamá |
| Location: | La Villa de los Santos |
| Region: | Los Santos |
| Country: | Panama |
| Coordinates: | 7.9244°N -80.394°W |
| Healthcare: | National Health Service |
| Funding: | Public |
| Type: | District General |
| Emergency: | Yes |
| Beds: | 257 |
| Founded: | 1955 |
Anita Moreno Regional Hospital is a medium district general hospital near La Villa de Los Santos, Los Santos Province, Panama, run by the Ministerio de Salud. The hospital is located north-west of the village of El Ejido on Belisario Porras Road.
The hospital is under expansion by IBT Group on the site of the previous hospital at a cost of £102.9 million. Building work was started in the year 2012.
The hospital is located on Belisario Porras Road, around 2.7km (01.7miles) to the south-east of La Villa de Los Santos, close to El Ejido. It is surrounded by woodland on two sides.
The hospital was built on the site of what was originally a potrero that belonged to Anita Moreno. The site became a hospital in 1970, occupying 2 hectares of a 10 hectares lot.
The new hospital will replace both the psychiatric hospital and the specialty hospital. It has 257 beds and provides a full range of clinical services including an Accident and Emergency department.[1] [2] The new hospital is expected to have 257 beds and will cover a population of 100,000 inhabitants in the Azuero region. Due to construction delays, the hospital will not be completed until 2019; it will be the only level 3 or 4 hospital in the region.[3]