The Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín is ranked 31st in the high-complexity category in the new Ranking Hospitales Best in Class 2026 . The Gobierno de Canarias said so. The list brings together results from the 2021–2025 editions and adds criteria such as consistency of results, Best in Class 5 Estrellas and documented innovations using artificial intelligence. The hospital is the only one in the Servicio Canario de Saludto appear in this ranking.
The ranking is published by Gaceta Médica in collaboration with the Cátedra de Innovación y Gestión Sanitaria of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. It continues to be based on the Índice de Calidad Asistencial al Paciente (ICAP), an indicator of the organisation, processes and good practice of clinical services. The new assessment is intended to show how institutions have developed over five years. The publication lists the Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla .
The health department’s statement Consejería de Sanidad describes the ranking as recognition of the staff’s work and their commitment to quality, patient safety and continuous improvement. According to the account, the Hospital Universitario de Gran Canaria Doctor Negrín provides numerous specialist services for the region: for the island of Lanzarote, these include neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, interventional cardiology, plastic surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and vascular surgery; for the province of Las Palmas, they include radiotherapy (Oncología Radioterápica), nuclear medicine (PET-CT), virology, adult cardiac surgery, care for people with haemophilia, endovascular treatment of haemorrhagic strokes and specialist units. At autonomous-community level, the hospital is a reference centre for, among other things, allogeneic stem-cell transplants, unrelated haematopoietic transplants, heart and lung transplants, surgical treatment of congenital heart defects in adults, deep brain stimulation, molecular biology, electron microscopy, Cyberknife radiotherapy and high-intensity focused ultrasound for movement disorders. The authorities also say that 29 of the hospital’s services are accredited or certified.
Rankings such as Best in Class use their own definitions and weighting systems. They provide indications of aspects of hospital performance, but do not replace a detailed professional assessment of individual areas of care. The current news concerns the 2026 rating, based on combined data from 2021 to 2025; previous awards received by the hospital are taken into account in the assessment but are not the subject of this report.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).