Our history

  • 1988

    Beginnings

    The Techint Group - with other partners- entered the health services sector to promote, implement and manage health care initiatives.

  • 1993

    Construction activities

    Work begins on the Istituto Clinico Humanitas in Rozzano, Milan.

  • 1996

    First patient

    On March 4, the Humanitas hospital receives its first patient.

  • 1997

    NHS

    One year after its inauguration the convention allowing all citizens covered by the Italian National Health Service (NHS) to benefit from the services provided by Humanitas comes into force. An agreement is reached with Milan University's Faculty of Medicine and Surgery concerning teaching activities for the members of its Specialization School.

  • 1999

    Bergamo

    Fondazione Humanitas is established with the aim of supporting patients and their caregivers both practically and psychologically. Humanitas Gavazzeni, is acquired. In the following years different acquisitions build up a strategic network of hospitals and medical centers in Italy.

  • 2000

    NHS accreditation

    The process of NHS accreditation is completed for all hospital activity, both in terms of inpatient and ambulatory care. October sees the beginning of Milan University's first degree course in Nursing.

  • 2002

    A Harvard case

    The "Humanitas case study" is presented to the MBA students from Harvard University within the framework of its "Innovations in Health Care" course. Humanitas becomes the first Italian general hospital to obtain the accreditation of excellence issued by the Joint International Commission.

  • 2003

    Inaugurations

    November sees the inauguration of the Humanitas Emergency and Radiotherapy areas.

  • 2005

    Recognition

    Humanitas becomes a scientific institute of admission and care, recognized by the Ministry of Health and Lombardy's Regional Government. Works began on the construction of the new Research and Teaching Center. Istituto Clinico Humanitas is recognized as a teaching hospital for Medicine and Surgery for Milan University. The Fondazione Humanitas for Research is established.

  • 2007

    Research and Teaching Center

    The new Research and Teaching Center is inaugurated (an area of 20,000 sq.mts, which houses 30 laboratories for 300 researchers, 14 university classrooms for 400 students in Medicine and Surgery, Biotechnology and Nursing Sciences from Milan University, a multimedia library and a space designed for holding conferences Congress Centre).

  • 2010

    International Medical School

    Humanitas hosts the International Medical School in collaboration with the University of Milan School of Medicine, an international degree on Medicine and Surgery that unites academic training, hospital experience and laboratories for research. The Humanitas Cancer Center, a highly specialized center located in the core of the polyclinic, is established.

  • 2014

    HumanitasUniversity

    Humanitas creates HumanitasUniversity, a private non profit institution dedicated to the medical sciences and strictly interconnected with the Humanitas hospital.

  • 2016

    Aquisitions

    Humanitas San Pio X, a prestigious clinic in Milan with 162 beds, eight operating rooms, two delivery rooms, 46 outpatient clinics, two endoscopy rooms and radiotherapy rooms, joins the network. Gradenigo hospital, a multi-specialist hospital with an emergency department located in Turin, also becomes part of Humanitas.

  • 2017

    Campus

    The new HumanitasUniversity Campus is inaugurated, hosting up to 1,200 students and with 20,000 square meters dedicated to teaching activities and student services.

  • 2018

    New aquisition

    Humanitas expands its network by acquiring Clinica Castelli, a prestigious clinic in the center of Bergamo. Mario Luzzatto Student House (residences for students) is inaugurated: 240 beds in single or double rooms and many communal areas like study rooms, a gym, a recreation space, a library, a terrace, a garden, a cafeteria and a laundry room.

  • 2019

    MEDTEC School

    Humanitas University and the Politecnico di Milano partnered to create MEDTEC School - a new international 6 year degree programme, for the development of the doctors of the future, where medicine and engineering meet.

  • 2020

    Expansions

    Humanitas Istituto Clinico Catanese is born as an upgrading of Humanitas Centro Catanese di Oncologia, founded in 1958. As a response to the pandemic, Emergency Hospital 19, dedicated to the diagnosis and intensive care of infectious and viral diseases, including Covid-19, is developed in Milan.

  • 2024

    Recognition of excellence

    For the third consecutive year (2022, 2023, and 2024), the Humanitas Clinical Institute in Rozzano has been recognized by the National Agency for Regional Health Services as the best in the country, among more than 1,300 institutions evaluated.