On 19 April, the Signo Foundation presented the Profesor Barea Awards 2012, an initiative to highlight and recognize the work of public and private institutions to improve health management and development of new initiatives that seek to optimize the healthcare services.

In the category “Healthcare facilities and service companies: Global Management” has been awarded the paper Ambulatory Medicine and alternatives to conventional hospital as a solution to the lack of hospital beds for the Bellvitge University Hospital.