In the last six years, Civil Hospitals in Guadalajara had a “historical” growth, says the general director, Jaime Andrade Villanueva. All the rooms were modernized, the number of operating rooms and the workplace (doctors and nurses) grew, in addition to the fact that new areas of attention were inaugurated and the new hospital in Tonalá was opened.
With more than 40 intervention works in different spaces of the “Fray Antonio Mayor” hospitals (old) and “Juan I. Menchaca” (new), “the remodeling of the highest draft that has been recorded since the hospital was founded was carried out. It consisted virtually New furniture. ”
during its management at the head of the decentralized public body, the new Comprehensive care unit for girls, boys and adolescents with burns, the largest and best equipped in Mexico. The hemodialysis area was also modernized and expanded, as it went from 23 units to 50.
In addition, with an important impulse to mental Health care, visits in the area of psychiatry and paidopsychiatry increased, since they currently have five thousand consultations a year.
And 10 new high -specialty operating rooms for complex surgeries, such as oncological, transplants and cardiology were opened.
While The medical staff went from seven thousand 434 places in 2019 to nine thousand 021 authorized in 2025.
Besides, In the new Civil Hospital “Juan I. Menchaca” the spaces were expanded to serve children with cancer and comply with international standards, The unity of high maternal-infantile specialty with obstetric intensive care, maternal-feetal medicine and neonatal intensive care were modernized. The Palliative Care Unit for adults was also extended and rehabilitated, the Center for Integral Respiratory Care and the Regional Center for Comprehensive Care of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, referring at the national and international level of specialized care in childhood cancer.
“The beds increased and the operating rooms were generated for the bone marrow transplantation area. In the intensive care unit for cancer children, the area of outpatient chemotherapy was greatly expanded and all the monitoring infrastructure of patients with nutritional and psychological care. Of more personal.
With the extension of the Civil Hospital of the East, said the Director General, 500 thousand patients from municipalities of Jalisco and relieve the flow of people from “Fray Antonio Mayor” and “Juan I. Menchaca”, especially in the emergency area. All these actions have made civil hospitals have received different international awards over six years, such as the “world’s Best Hospitals”, which are located Among the 15 best public and private hospitals in Mexico.
The challenges at the door: expand emergency area and finish the Civilian from the East
The modernization and remodeling of all areas of civil hospitals “Fray Antonio Mayor” and “Juan I. Menchaca” allowed the medical care of patients to grow in at least 100% for some specialties; However, there is still Expanding emergencies, to meet the high demand of people without social security that come to these medical centers, and finish the Civil Hospital of the East to cover around 500 thousand people in this area of the city.
In the case of the latter, Jaime Andrade Villanueva, general director of the Civil Hospitals of Guadalajara mentioned, there is still the second building that will be the hospitalization area. He currently receives between 200 and 250 patients a day, and has 480 beds. It is expected to be concluded this year to attend the east zone of the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara and 11 surrounding municipalities.
“Building B, which is where the emergency areas are, more everything that will be hospitalization and operating rooms, is about to operate, but the conclusion of the areas of operating rooms, therapies and everything of diagnosis and treatment, such as X -rays and all that part of hospitalization, which theoretically concludes this year is missing.”
A large part of the patients who attend “Fray Antonio Mayor” come from the eastern area of the city, so once all areas of the Tonalá hospital are operating and in operation, it will no longer be necessary that they be referred to the Hospitals of Guadalajara, said the general director.
On the other hand, although it was possible to expand attention in the emergency area, the great demand requires that this specialty continue to grow and modernize. “The challenge remains the large amount of emergencies that exist, both traumatological and surgical and medical; practically refer to civilians because this is where the specialty is. But also, also, four other states (Nayarit, Zacatecas, Michoacán and Colima) refer us many patients, including urgencies and patients with serious diseases, who can even be managed as ambulatory ones, ” pointed out.
However, during the management of Andrade Villanueva, the Emergency Department was extended to be able to meet the great demand of patients. However, this area for pediatrics is still required, in addition to intensive therapy, since it is necessary to expand these due to the large amount of emergencies that exist. “It would seem to me that these are the slopes or projects in the short, medium and long term,” he said.
They bet on a network of hospitals in Jalisco
With the aim of strengthening the hospital-school model and paying the strategy of the University of Guadalajara and the Jalisco government to create a hospital university network in the state, in the last six years in the civil hospitals of the metropolitan area Classrooms, auditoriums and rest areas for residents and fellows were remodeled.
The model of medical care and university education must be extended to more municipalities in the metropolis and the entity, said Jaime Andrade Villanueva, general director of the Civil Hospitals of Guadalajara.
“All teaching areas were remodeled, all auditoriums. The Horacio Padilla and the three auditoriums, plus all classrooms. As for the remodeling of rest for residents, a part that is already in operation was finished, because here we have more than 1,400 fellows. At the entrance of the hospital the complementary part is being built, which will provide total attention. It seems to me that it is the best ecosystem that exists in hospital-school that collates has teaching and research. It is a perfect ecosystem for the formation of new human resources ”he said.
The Hospitals-School model, which is replicated in the United States, France, Brazil, Spain, among others, allows the development of specialized scientific research and quality academic training for medical personnel, explained the general director. In the six -year period of Pablo Lemus at the head of the state government and Karla Aposition in the UdeG, a series of civil hospitals will also work as educational schools in Jalisco.
The first one was already announced: It will be located at the Costa University Center, in Puerto Vallarta, but one is also projected for the municipality of Tlajomulco and another for the North North region of the State, said Andrade Villanueva.
“The state governor, Pablo Lemus, and the University of Guadalajara visualized the expansion and is already working on what will be the new Civil Hospital of the Civil Hospitals Network, which will be in Puerto Vallarta. It begins all planning this year and, possibly, the following year will begin what would be the Civil Hospital of Tlajomulco. That is another challenge: to generate this network of hospitals by analyzing the mortality of the areas, especially where the UdeG has university centers with health science careers to make hospitals – school. ”
With this approach, said the general director, greater hospital coverage will be achieved for the entire State. “University hospitals are the best model that exists in terms of patient health results in the world,” he concluded.
University Strategy
What is the hospital-school model?
It is a system in which a hospital acts as a training center for medical students and other health areas, while also provides patient medical care services. It combines the function of a traditional hospital with that of a school, offering a practical and real learning environment for future health professionals.
In Guadalajara, the Civil Hospital of Guadalajara (HCG) functions as a hospital-school, training health professionals from all over Mexico and some abroad. In addition to its function as a hospital, the HCG focuses on training, research and innovation generation in the medical area.
Andrade Villanueva proposes to expand the offer in Medicine
After concluding his management at the head of the decentralized public body of Civil Hospitals of Guadalajara, Dr. Jaime Andrade Villanueva will assume the academic and research deputy vice -rectory at the University of Guadalajara with Two main missions: expand the educational offer in medical careers and modernize curricula so that graduates enter a changing and extremely technological labor market with the best tools.
With experience as Rector of the University Center of Health Sciences (CUCS), the Director General said About 50% of current education programs will disappear in the coming years, Therefore, it is necessary to start planning the new degrees and specialties to provide coverage to current problems.
“The educational offer will have to be expanded in careers for which there will be jobs in the next 20, 30 or 40 years, of which they do not exist today, but there will be. The university must be in force for the new challenges demanded by the global context. The world is going through many problems that have to do with sustainability, food, nutrition, pollution, food security, then we need a new educational offer that comes to solve more efficiently the great problems facing the world. ”
He also said that for medical careers there will be more specialties, master’s and doctoral programs and dual education will be promoted, understood as the presence of students in the spaces where they will work. In addition, he said, he will work on the linking of civil hospitals and university centers to strengthen the hospitals network – School.
“The University of Guadalajara has that: form large doctors thanks to its civil hospitals and that can go to areas where there is greater lag. This network of civil hospitals, coupled with the interaction they will have with the university centers, can Substantially increase medical, biomedical and biotechnological research, in terms not only to generate new information, but to generate our own technology, something that would be good for Mexico ”, He scored.
Thus, Andrade Villanueva acknowledged that by 2030 and 2050 in the country multidisciplinary professionals will be needed, that is, they have knowledge in different areas to strengthen medical care. “Hearing world problems requires multidisciplinary participations. Doctors serve, but engineers are fundamental in medicine and chemicals in medicine ”, ended.
