Award
Spanish Private Hospital with the best reputation
In 2025, for the eleventh consecutive year, the Clínica Universidad de Navarra has ranked as the leading Spanish private hospital in healthcare reputation, according to the Merco Salud ranking.
Merco Salud has once again recognized the Clínica Universidad de Navarra as the Spanish private hospital with the best reputation, a distinction that this academic hospital has held since the first edition of the ranking in 2014.
Particular mention should be made of the Nuclear Medicine Department, which has reaffirmed its position as the service with the best reputation for the second consecutive year. In the overall hospital ranking by medical services, the Clinic is ranked among the top 10 in 16 specialties. Notable positions include Clinical Laboratory Services (5th), Medical Oncology (5th), as well as the presence of medical specialties such as Endocrinology and Nutrition (6th), Psychiatry (8th), and Allergology (8th).
La Clínica leads 23 specialties among private hospitals:
- Clinical Laboratory Services.
- Allergology.
- Anesthesiology and Resuscitation.
- Digestive system.
- Cardiology.
- General and Digestive Surgery.
- Dermatology.
- Clinical Documentation.
- Endocrinology and Nutrition.
- Hospital Pharmacy.
- Hematology and Hemotherapy.
- Internal Medicine.
- Nuclear Medicine.
- Pulmonology.
- Neurophysiology.
- Neurology.
- Obstetrics and Gynecology.
- Medical Oncology.
- Otorhinolaryngology.
- Pediatrics.
- Psychiatry.
- Rheumatology.
- Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery.
- Radiology.
Independent Monitor
According to the organization, the Merco Salud ranking is the only independent study that analyzes the reputation of the entire Spanish healthcare system. Through this ranking, stakeholders in the healthcare system are evaluated based on three assessments: the first conducted by medical professionals (hospital-based specialist physicians and family and community medicine physicians); the second issued by nurses, hospital managers and administrators, nursing managers, executives from pharmaceutical companies, heads of hospital pharmacy, patient associations, as well as health journalists and reporters, based on 16 reputation variables for clinical services. All these assessments are complemented by a third analysis of objective indicators of quality and clinical management covering more than 4,788 clinical services.
In total, in 2025, 10 evaluations and 11,010 surveys were conducted among different healthcare stakeholders (6,437 physicians, 649 nursing managers, and 129 executives), along with an analysis of objective indicators for 145 clinical services. The study was produced by Análisis e Investigación, Spain’s leading market research institute, and the methodology and results were subject to an independent review by KMPG in accordance with the ISAE 3000 standard.