Nossa Senhora de Pompéia Hospital

[1] The hospital, which was one of the first in Caxias do Sul, is located on Júlio de Castilhos Avenue and was created through the initiative of a group of ladies who had formed with the purpose of raising funds for the construction of the main altar of the Mother Church.

On August 12, 1913, in order to maintain a community work, the Ladies of Charity Association, presided by Ignez Parolini Thompson, decided to focus on the assistance of poor sick people, under the supervision of João Meneguzzi, parish priest of the Mother Church.

Shortly afterwards, the Ladies bought the small hospital owned by doctors Cesar Merlo and Henrique Fracasso, and two other houses, all neighboring the Palacete.

The new institution was inaugurated on June 24, 1920, and put under the direction of doctor Romulo Carbone, who was very respected in the city, with the Josephine sisters in charge of administration and nursing care.

[6] Still in 1939, it was decided to build a new and much larger headquarters, endowed with modern equipment, with a project by the renowned architect Joseph Lutzemberger from Porto Alegre.

[3] The new building was inaugurated with great solemnity on December 25, 1940, with the presence of the federal interventor Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias, the mayor Dante Marcucci, and the blessings of Dom José Barea, bishop of Caxias.

However, the institution preserved a philanthropic character, while the Ladies focused on the material and spiritual comfort of the sick and on fundraising, remaining as the funding entity.

It currently has 300 beds, 13 operating rooms, three adult ICUs and one neonatal ICU, and performs an average of 180,000 outpatient visits, 15,000 surgeries, and 15,000 hospitalizations per year.