In the eighties, in an evaluation by the Health Directorate of the Chilean Navy, it became clear that hospital facilities were inadequate after an earthquake struck the city of Valparaíso in 1985 and the fire that occurred in boilers in the building.

The concerns that are unique to a specific facility for the Armed Forces are reflected in the concept of design and architecture of the new building.

That is why their equipment and infrastructure has the capacity to deal with emergency situations of war or natural disasters which have a high incidence of traumatic pathologies and burns.

The Minister of National Defence, Mr. Patricio Rojas Saavedra, and the Commander in Chief of the Navy, Admiral Jorge Martinez Bush, presided over the ceremony .

Clinical Campus operates as the "Naval School of Health" of the Chilean Navy and has agreements with prestigious higher education institutions that provide public and private health-related careers and are accredited by the Ministry of Health of Chile to provide area of medical science careers and the Ministry of Education of Chile in the academic area, and these are: