The Rafael Méndez Hospital, Lorca

Covering health area: Área de Salud III (Lorca)
Ctra. Nacional 340, Km. 589, 30817 LORCA

Click for map, Hospital Rafael Méndez, Lorca

Tel: 968 445500 / 968 445552
User enquiries: 968 445547
Urgencias (waiting room): 968 445517
Urgencias (admin): 968 444108
Admissions (appointments): 968 445525
Admissions: 968 445540
Intensive care: 968 445733
General Surgery: 968 445620
Specialist surgery: 968 445640
Maternity: 968 445560
Traumatology: 968 445660
Paediatrics: 968 445599
Internal Medicine: 968 445580 – 968 445752
Psychiatric ward: 968 445514
Fax: 968 442421

The Hospital Rafael Méndez in Lorca is a public health facility which was opened in 1990, and currently has beds for 283 patients and an emergencies unit.
It is located around 4 km from the city centre, and can be easily accessed from the exit at km 587 on the A-7 motorway.
It serves Health Area Nº 3, which includes Lorca, Puerto Lumbreras, Aledo, Totana and the north of Águilas.
Phone calls to patient rooms are permitted between 12.00 and 21.30.

General visiting times are from 15.00 to 22.00, but special timetables are in force for premature babies (11.30 to 13.00 and 15.30 to 17.00), Intensive Care (12.30 to 13.00 and 19.00 to 19.30) and the psychiatric ward (17.00 to 20.00).