Marbella Hospitals

There are three main Marbella hospitals on the Costa del Sol - USP (private), Costa del Sol hospital (public) and Hospiten (private).

You´ve been to any of them? Please send us your evaluation and grade. We would love to hear from your family!

All three Marbella hospitals offer modern medical equipment, emergency units, and delivery facilities. They are used to handling foreigners, so they all offer translators or have multilingual staff.

• USP Hospital Marbella

Tel: +34 952 774 200
Location: Avda. Severo Ochoa, 22. 29603 Marbella
Website: www.uspmarbella.com

• Costa del Sol Hospital

Tel: +34 951 976 669 or +34 951 976 670
Location: Autovía A-7 Km 187, 29603 Marbella
Website: www.hcs.es

• Hospiten Estepona

Tel: +34 952 760 600
Location: Partido de Velerin Ctra: Nacional 340, Km 162, Estepona, 29680
Website: www.hospiten.es

Deniz's family (Marbella) grade: 7.0

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Mom: I delivered a baby two months ago at the Costa del Sol hospital and I honestly have mixed feelings about the delivery process. In general, I have to say that I had a good experience and must´ve just been very lucky. When my waters broke I rushed to the hospital in the evening and was attended to quite quickly. I had an amazing nurse who helped me through quite a serious situation as my baby had her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. I was a bit taken aback as instead of an obstetrician I got an English nurse, but she proved to be very well trained and delivered my baby safely. Unfortunately, I know of someone who went through the exact same procedure with the same problem on the same day and the mother wasn´t so lucky. Her child´s umbilical cord became a serious complication and the baby is now handicapped. I also know of another who delivered recently at the Costa del Sol and when she arrived in the evening with major contractions she was given a huge dose of an epidural and told to go to bed. When she woke in the morning she was surrounded by young staff who apparently had no idea what to do. They struggled to deliver the baby by pushing, foreceps, and every other procedure they could think of, but since she had so much of the epidural she was delivering to no avail. Finally, the Costa del Sol hospital called an experienced doctor and he delivered a very traumatized baby. She´s now told to hold answer the baby´s every cry and hold it tightly to try and reverse the effects of all the trauma. It´s really sad and I am so sorry for these patients. I just have to consider myself lucky. So I wouldn´t really recommend delivering at the Costa del Sol. You´re probably better off going to USP hospital Marbella. (August 2009) Grade: 7.0