The hospital has specialist facilities which not only serve Tenerife but the surrounding Canary Islands.

The hospital adopted the name of the patron saint of the Canary Islands, the Virgin of Candelaria.

The hospital complex is well connected to the motorways of the North and South of Tenerife.

With a total of 3,391 professionals, it is geared to medical care in the south of Tenerife, and referral hospital for the islands of La Gomera and El Hierro.

Furthermore, due to its structural and technological characteristics and depending on the needs that it is demanding, it is credited as reference for all health areas of the Canary Islands, the service Liver Transplant and service of Allergology for the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.