The Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic is a public research hospital and district general hospital in Bologna. Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinc is the largest district general hospital in Italy, and the first of the four public hospitals of the city of Bologna. The Polyclinic has approximately 1,535 beds and 5,153 employees. Every year, it has 69,000 ordinary admissions, 139,000 emergency admissions, 33,000 surgeries and 3 million specialistic examinations.