Sant Camil, the hospital where Noelia was killed, is owned by a Catholic order.

 

by Redacción  | March 28, 2026

The Hospital Residència Sant Camil, in Sant Pere de Ribes, is a work of religious ownership linked to the Order of the Ministers of the Sick, the well-known Camilian religious order. Sant Camil was born as a healthcare infrastructure promoted by this Catholic order on land donated precisely for an assistance work.

The history of the center begins with the donation of land linked to Amanda Sagristà Colomé, widow of Josep Marcer Carbonell, with the purpose of building a residence for the care of needy people. On that basis, the Camilians first developed a residence and then a hospital, configuring a healthcare complex that has been united from its origin to the spirituality and assistance mission of the order. It was not simply a matter of managing beds or medical services, but of embodying in the healthcare field the charism proper to San Camilo de Lelis: caring for the sick with love, tenderness, and reverence for human life.

Religious ownership and public management

Over time, that reality was legally reorganized. In 2002, the Fundación Hospital Residencia Sant Camil was established, created by the Spanish province of the Camilian Religious to manage the complex. And in 2009, that foundation agreed to transfer the assistance management to the Consorci Sanitari de l’Alt Penedès i Garraf, integrating the hospital into the Catalan public healthcare network. That is the scheme that remains in force: Camilian religious ownership and public management by agreement with Catalan healthcare.

We are not dealing with a purely public hospital in which the Church has an accessory pastoral presence. Nor with a center that was once religious and completely ceased to be so. What exists is a hospital of religious ownership, articulated through the foundation linked to the Camilians, whose ordinary management was transferred to a public entity. The management is public; the work, its root, and its identity remain Camilian.

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