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Sanitas's own hospitals, one by one
Five are open today and appear in Sanitas's official hospital list. The other three are projects announced by the company, with the opening years Sanitas gives its policyholders in its 2026 renewal letter: until they open, they are plans and should be read as such.
Hospital Universitario Sanitas La Moraleja (Madrid, north)
The reference hospital for most of our clients in northern and north-western Madrid. A university hospital with every medical and surgical specialty, 24-hour emergency care and inpatient wards, about twenty minutes from our Majadahonda office.
Hospital Universitario Sanitas La Zarzuela (Madrid, Aravaca)
The closest to our office and to Pozuelo de Alarcón itself. A university hospital with international Joint Commission accreditation, it is the one we recommend to anyone living in Majadahonda, Las Rozas, Pozuelo or Boadilla who wants Sanitas's own hospital within half an hour.
Hospital Universitario Sanitas Virgen del Mar (Madrid, centre)
The most accessible if you live or work in the city centre. With La Moraleja, La Zarzuela and Blua Valdebebas, it is one of Sanitas's four own university hospitals in Madrid.
Hospital Sanitas CIMA (Barcelona)
Sanitas's first own hospital outside Madrid and, today, its only one in Barcelona. For our clients in the province it is the practical reason the own-hospital argument applies to them too.
Hospital Blua Sanitas Valdebebas (Madrid)
The newest, and Sanitas's first digitally native hospital: medical records and processes built into the app, every medical and surgical specialty and, according to the 2026 renewal letter, a new Nuclear Medicine Unit and a new Mental Health Unit. Since April 2026 the Community of Madrid has also accredited it as a university hospital, as La Moraleja, La Zarzuela and Virgen del Mar already were. Sanitas presents it as a benchmark in sustainability and clinical research; that label is theirs and we pass it on as such.
The three to come: Marina, Arganzuela and Portitxol
Hospital Marina, in Barcelona, scheduled to open in 2028. It will be Sanitas's second own hospital in the city, in an alliance with Mapfre according to the company.
Hospital Sanitas Arganzuela, in Madrid, scheduled to open in 2029 according to Sanitas's most recent communication to its policyholders (the original press release said 2028). It will rise at Calle Retama 1, next to the M-30 and Méndez Álvaro: an 80 million euro investment, more than 110 beds, 24-hour emergency care, ICU, 8 operating theatres and 50 consulting rooms across 19,500 square metres. It is the part of Madrid the own network covers worst today, which is why it is the project we get asked about most.
Hospital Portitxol, in Palma de Mallorca, scheduled to open in 2029. The first time Sanitas's own network leaves Madrid and Barcelona.
The five open hospitals appear in Sanitas's official hospital list linked at the end. The Hospital Sanitas Arganzuela figures come from Sanitas's corporate press release, also linked; the opening years of the three projects are those Sanitas gives its policyholders in its 2026 renewal letter and may change. We are an authorised exclusive agency of Sanitas, not the company: for any hospital data, the source is Sanitas.
Common questions
Direct answers, the same we give at the office.
What do I gain from the hospital being theirs rather than affiliated?
Three practical things, and none of them shows until the day you need them. The first is that you pay nothing and process nothing: you book an appointment, you go and you're seen, because the insurer and the hospital are the same house and billing is internal. There's no paying money upfront or claiming a reimbursement with invoices. The second is your medical record: whatever they do for you at an own hospital sits in the same system as your consultations and tests, so the specialist sees the CT scan you had two months ago without you having to bring a CD. And the third is that, when something gets complicated, the people deciding on your case and the people paying the bill aren't negotiating with each other. That said, we won't pretend the own network covers everything: some specialties and situations are referred to the affiliated network, and that happens at Sanitas too.
I live outside Madrid and Barcelona. Is any of this useful to me?
Honestly: today, not much. The five own hospitals are in Madrid and Barcelona, so if you live in Valencia, Seville or Bilbao you'll use the affiliated network just as with any other insurer, and this argument shouldn't weigh on your decision there. What does change the map in the medium term is that the upcoming openings step outside those two cities: Palma de Mallorca in 2029 with Hospital Portitxol. Our advice when someone from elsewhere asks us is always the same: check the medical directory for which specific centers you have within twenty minutes of your home and decide based on that, not on the own hospitals. If you like, we'll look at it together with your postal code before you sign anything.
Which policy do I need to be treated at an own hospital?
You need a policy that includes hospitalization, and that's where the important detail lies: Sanitas Avanza doesn't include it. Avanza covers consultations, high-tech diagnostic tests and more than 400 procedures without hospital admission, but if you need to be admitted, it's not covered. The policies that give full access are those of the Más Salud family (in its three modalities: no copays, low copay and high copay), plus Más Salud Familias and the reimbursement products. For emergencies and consultations you can set foot in the hospital with almost any product; to spend the night there, you need hospitalization cover. If you're on Avanza and considering an upgrade, tell us and we'll request the terms of the change in writing before you sign.
Do Adeslas, DKV or Asisa have their own hospitals?
Here it pays to be precise rather than sell smoke. Adeslas and DKV have no hospitals of their own: they work with an affiliated network, and you can verify that in their own public information. Mapfre has around 16 medical centers of its own and an affiliated network of some 300 hospitals, but no university hospitals of its own. And Asisa also has a hospital network, but a shared one: the 18 hospitals of the HLA group also treat patients of the other insurers, Sanitas included. If you're choosing between Sanitas and Asisa, what decides it is which specific centers in each network are close to your home and which specialties they cover.
What exactly is Hospital Blua Valdebebas?
It's Sanitas' most recent own hospital, in Valdebebas (Madrid), and the company presents it as the most modern hospital in Europe: 100% digital, with the medical record and processes integrated into the app, and positioned as a benchmark in sustainability and clinical research. That "most modern in Europe" label is Sanitas', not ours, and that's how we pass it on to you. What our clients who've already been there do notice is the digital side: paperwork, access to results and follow-up are done from your phone instead of at a front desk. If you live in the Henares corridor or in the northeast of Madrid, it's probably the one closest to you.
The Arganzuela hospital opens in 2029. Does that change anything if I live in southern Madrid?
It could change quite a lot, because that's the area worst covered today by Sanitas' own network: the current five hospitals sit in the north, the west and the center. Hospital Sanitas Arganzuela will rise at Calle Retama 1, next to the M-30 and Méndez Álvaro station, with more than 110 beds, 24-hour emergency care, an ICU, 8 operating rooms and 50 consultation rooms spread across 19,500 square meters and thirteen floors, with an announced investment of €80 million. It will be the company's seventh hospital. Now, the prudent part: 2029 is a long way off and construction can be delayed. Don't sign up today on the strength of a hospital that doesn't exist yet; sign up for what's open now and take this as a signal of where the network is heading.
Does signing up through your office give me any advantage in accessing these hospitals?
No, and we prefer to say it plainly: access to the own hospitals depends on your policy, not on who sold it to you. What does change is the price and the service: if you sign up with us we always apply the best price, guaranteed, and we look after you ourselves before and after you sign up. We're the ones who pick up the phone when a test needs authorizing, a hospital document needs sorting out or a renewal needs lining up with an immigration appointment. We're at Calle Santiago Apóstol 5 in Majadahonda, fifteen minutes from La Zarzuela, and we serve clients in eight languages: Spanish, English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese.