Overview
UMBAL “St. Ivan Rilski” EAD
UMBAL “St. Ivan Rilski” EAD is a leader in high-tech medical diagnostics and practice. The combination of excellently trained specialists, many of whom are pioneers in your field, the availability of the latest generation of medical equipment, allows medical activities of extreme complexity to be performed, and very good conditions for patients.The base for the medical facility is completely renewed and up-to-date.
Accommodation
The revealed 490 beds are in hospital rooms with 1, 2 and 3 beds each, and each room has a separate bathroom. A unique energy-efficient computer information and communication system Smart module is installed on the hospital beds, providing the opportunity to connect to the hospital’s information system and increasing the comfort of patients through personal access to cable TV, Internet, movies of choice, Skype, telephone, newspaper purchase or a magazine by the bed.
Medical staff
The hospital is a preferred place for patients from Bulgaria and European countries. The hospital team is composed of 282 doctors, of which: 21 professors, 23 associate professors, 15 chief assistants, 37 assistants. There are 202 doctors (72%) with an acquired specialty, of which 59 have 2 specialties and 4 have more than 2 specialties. The hospital employs and trains 73 doctors specializing in neurosurgery, imaging, gastroenterology, nephrology, and other specialties. Most doctors have additional recognized qualifications, which meet the requirements of the medical standards in their respective specialties. The number of medical specialists: 242 are health care specialists, 38 medical laboratory technicians, 31 X-ray laboratory technicians, 10 rehabilitators and 6 assistant pharmacists.
Medical education and medical science
Outside the medical activity, UMBAL “St. Ivan Rilski” EAD has set itself the goal, through the conducted educational, scientific, and scientific applied activity in the field of medicine, to contribute to the Bulgarian medical education, medical science, and practice to reach a level corresponding and equal to the European standards and norms.
International Europe Award For Quality
UMBAL “St. Ivan Rilski” EAD is the only Bulgarian hospital awarded with 2 international awards for quality – International Europe Award For Quality – New Millennium Award of Trade Leaders’ Club and Editorial Office for 2011 and “International Diamond Prize for Excellence in Quality” of the European Society for Quality Research – ESQR 2012.
The Neurosurgery Clinic of UMBAL “St. Ivan Rilski” is the leading clinic in Bulgaria. Every year, over 2,000 operative interventions of major, very major and exceptional complexity in all areas of modern neurosurgery are carried out there.
In the medical facility, a Quality Management System was developed, implemented, and maintained, corresponding to the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001:2008 from 2009, standard ISO 9001:2015 from 2021 (see bg/en).
A permit to carry out treatment activities of the hospital, issued by the Ministry of Health, defines the third (highest) level of competence in the implementation of medical standards in Gastroenterology, Neurosurgery, Rheumatology, Anesthesiology and intensive care, Nephrology, Occupational diseases, Physical and rehabilitation medicine, Imaging, Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Laboratory, Clinical Immunology.