Gregorio Marañón Hospital took home four awards at the ceremony in Santander on 11 November. Its recognised services were Pharmacy, Endocrinology, Microbiology and VIH/SIDA. Gaceta Médica and the Cátedra de Innovación y Gestión Sanitaria at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos organised the XXI Best in Class awards.
Fundación Jiménez Díaz also received four, for Urology, Obesity, Preventive Medicine and Public Health. The hospital was named Spain’s best in three of those categories, Urology, Obesity, and Preventive Medicine and Public Health, and was also reported as a finalist in ten additional categories. La Princesa won in Pneumology and received an honourable mention for its Unidad del Dolor. 12 de Octubre was recognised for its intensive care unit, which also won the national intensive-medicine category.
The other hospital awards went to facilities outside central Madrid. Infanta Elena in Valdemoro was named Spain’s best medium-complexity hospital. Rey Juan Carlos Hospital in Móstoles received a distinction for its Reprocessing and Sterilisation Unit, while Hospital de Villalba was recognised for its emergency department. Rey Juan Carlos’s institutional account also listed the hospital as recognised or shortlisted in eight further areas, including intensive care, internal medicine, psychiatry and mental health, emergency care and urology.
The final distinction went to Centro de Salud Los Alpes in the capital’s San Blas-Canillejas district. It was selected as Spain’s best primary care facility, having received the same recognition in the 2017, 2021 and 2023 editions.
Gaceta Médica and the Cátedra de Innovación y Gestión Sanitaria at the Universidad pública Rey Juan Carlos granted the awards. The 2026 competition drew 85 hospital centres from 13 autonomous communities and nearly 550 applications, across 28 ICAP categories and additional institutional distinctions. The ceremony took place at the Paraninfo de Caballerizas in Santander’s La Magdalena complex, with proceedings scheduled to begin at 18:30. A wider awards report covered the national results, including Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla’s recognition as Spain’s best high-complexity hospital and awards for oncology and pulmonary hypertension.
