The Provincial Hospital of Pontevedra is located in the heart of the city, at Doctor Loureiro Crespo Street, 2.

[3] The CHOP (Complejo Hospitalario de Pontevedra) was declared a University Hospital Complex (CHU) in November 2012.

[4] The declaration as a University Hospital Complex (CHU) has allowed the hospitals of Pontevedra to offer courses in the University of Santiago de Compostela Medicine degree and other health science degrees such as Nursing or Physiotherapy, which are present on the Pontevedra Campus.

The Galician Government has launched the construction of a new hospital for the city of Pontevedra and its metropolitan area in 2020 with more specialities than the current one, including radiotherapy, nuclear medicine and neonatal and paediatric intensive care, and with a capacity of 724 beds.

The focus is on the following municipalities, in addition to the capital, Pontevedra: Barro, Bueu, Caldas de Reis, Campo Lameiro, Cerdedo-Cotobade, Cuntis, Forcarei, O Grove, A Lama, Marín, Meaño, Meis, Moraña, Poio, Ponte Caldelas, Portas, Sanxenxo, Soutomaior and Vilaboa.