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What Hospital Blua Sanitas Valdebebas offers
A summary of what the hospital publishes on its official website as of August 2026 and of what Sanitas tells its policyholders in this year's renewal letter. It is a Sanitas-owned hospital: with a policy that includes hospitalisation, access is direct, with no reimbursement paperwork.
Oncology: from diagnosis to treatment under one roof
The hospital approaches cancer as a single integrated pathway. Diagnosis relies on image-guided biopsies, endoscopy and MRI, and on the molecular side it brings in NGS sequencing, liquid biopsy and FISH, the basis of personalised cancer medicine. In imaging it has PET, SPECT, MRI and CT.
Treatment covers surgery, outpatient and inpatient chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hormone therapy and targeted therapies. The onco-haematology day hospital, equipped according to the hospital itself with the best digital technology for drug administration, lets you receive treatment and go home the same day. Add access to clinical trials at different phases under continuous medical supervision, and a support team offering psychological and nutritional care, physiotherapy and palliative care, coordinated with oncologists, surgeons, radiologists and pathologists.
Robotic surgery and nuclear medicine
The hospital states that robotic surgery is part of its surgical offer, alongside every medical and surgical specialty. In its 2026 renewal letter Sanitas adds a new Nuclear Medicine Unit, completing the diagnostic and therapeutic side of the oncology area.
Mental health and neurosciences
Twenty of the hospital's 110 rooms are dedicated to mental health, with the Mental Health Institute as one of its reference units; the 2026 renewal letter lists it as a new Mental Health Unit. Alongside it, the hospital announces a newly created Comprehensive Neurosciences Centre for neurology and related disciplines.
A digitally native hospital
Sanitas presents it as its first digitally native hospital: appointments, results and follow-up from the Mi Sanitas app, with the medical record built in. Sanitas also describes it as 'the most modern hospital in Europe', and day to day that shows in the fact that the whole patient journey, from appointment to report, can be followed digitally.
Since April 2026 the Community of Madrid has also accredited it as a university hospital: it can train undergraduate health-science students, like the university hospitals La Moraleja, La Zarzuela and Virgen del Mar.
Information published by Hospital Blua Sanitas Valdebebas on its official website (August 2026) and by Sanitas in its 2026 renewal letter to policyholders. Units and equipment may expand or change; for any clinical data, the source is the hospital. We are an exclusive agency of Sanitas, not the company or the hospital.
Common questions
Direct answers, the same we give at the office.
What do I need to be treated at Valdebebas?
A Sanitas policy that covers what you're going to need. For consultations and tests most of the company's products will do, but inpatient oncology treatments and mental health hospitalization require a policy with hospitalization cover: the Más Salud family in any of its modalities, Más Salud Familias, Top Quantum, Sanitas Profesionales or the reimbursement products. Sanitas Accede, Avanza, Único and Inclusivo don't cover hospitalization, so with them you could have consultations and outpatient tests, but not an admission. As it's a Sanitas-owned hospital there are no reimbursements or upfront payments: you book an appointment, you go, and billing is internal. If you're not sure what your current policy covers, bring it to us and we'll tell you by reading the terms and conditions, not from memory.
What's special about its oncology compared with another private hospital?
Three specific things, according to what the hospital itself publishes. First, molecular diagnostics (NGS, liquid biopsy, FISH), which is what makes personalized medicine possible: knowing which specific mutation a tumor has in order to choose the targeted therapy instead of treating blind. Second, the onco-hematology day hospital, which means receiving your chemotherapy or immunotherapy in the morning and sleeping in your own home. And third, access to clinical trials at different phases, which in oncology can mean reaching treatments that aren't yet in the general portfolio. We say it with the caution it demands: the technology being available guarantees no outcome in any individual case, and the decision on any treatment always belongs to the medical team looking after the patient.
Is it true it has an inpatient mental health unit?
Yes, and it's one of the hospital's most distinctive features: the Mental Health Institute is one of its flagship units and 20 of the hospital's 110 rooms are dedicated to mental health. That matters because, when a psychiatric admission is needed, having rooms dedicated to mental health inside a Sanitas-owned hospital is a great reassurance for the family. If someone in your family has a diagnosis that may require admissions (severe depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders), this fact weighs more than any other in this guide. That said, review your policy first: psychiatric hospitalization cover has annual day limits in the terms and conditions, and we'd rather you know them before you need them.
Where is it, and who is it convenient for?
In Valdebebas, in the northeast of Madrid, next to the airport and the Ciudad de la Justicia. It's especially convenient if you live along the A-1 and A-2 corridors, in Hortaleza, Sanchinarro, Las Tablas or the Henares corridor. If you live in the west (our area: Majadahonda, Pozuelo, Las Rozas), your go-to own hospital will still be La Zarzuela in Aravaca or La Moraleja in the north, and that's fine: the beauty of the own network is that you can use any of the five. For oncology and mental health, besides, distance usually matters less than the specific unit: some patients cross Madrid for the team they trust.
Is all of this covered by any Sanitas policy?
No, and here's the fine print worth reading. Access to the hospital is one thing and the coverage of each treatment is another: oncology is covered in the company's full policies, but specific services have their conditions. Psychiatric hospitalization has an annual limit on days, some treatments require prior authorization, and waiting periods apply if the policy is recent (10 months for hospitalisation, unless you come from another insurer and they're waived). Our standing recommendation: if you're signing up with a specific need in mind, tell us and we'll show you the terms of that specific coverage before you sign. Better an uncomfortable conversation now than a surprise at the worst possible moment.
I'm not a Sanitas client. Can I use this hospital?
The hospital belongs to Sanitas and its natural route of access is a Sanitas policy, which is the scenario where everything runs without friction: appointment, treatment and internal billing. That said, if you're thinking of switching insurers precisely because of this hospital, one detail works in your favor: coming from another company with a certificate of your insured time, you can ask for the hospitalization waiting periods to be removed within the medical network (childbirth keeps its own), and Sanitas decides when it reviews your application, so you wouldn't necessarily be starting from zero. What you can't do is take out insurance after a diagnosis expecting it to cover that illness: pre-existing conditions are declared on the health questionnaire and the insurer can exclude them. If that's your situation, tell us about it frankly and we'll tell you what real options exist, even if the answer is that with us there isn't one.