It employs more than 1,200 professionals and attends more than 4,000 births and 130,000 emergencies annually, in addition to recording 26,000 admissions and performing 13,000 surgeries.

Hospital Sant Joan de Déu has had an agreement since 1994 with the University of Barcelona to promote undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

The main research teams focus their studies in: Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona is the first Spanish center with a specific department dedicated to promoting innovation among its professionals and supports them so they can go through with their ideas, patent them and build the prototype.

This partnership is complemented by the program Apadrina, which aims to finance the treatment of underprivileged children who are treated at the Hospital of Lunsar.

In 2004 the hospital launched, in collaboration with DKV Seguros and Foundation Somni dels Nens, the solidarity scheme Cuidam that treats children from third world who require highly complex treatments not available in their country.