Hospital Geriátrico e de Convalescentes D. Pedro II, Geriatric and convalescent hospital in Jaçanã, São Paulo, Brazil
Hospital Geriátrico e de Convalescentes D. Pedro II is a hospital in the Jaçanã district of northern São Paulo, inaugurated on 2 July 1911 in a building designed by architect Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo. It belongs to the Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo and has capacity for 225 patients, with 24-hour nursing and a multidisciplinary team in geriatrics and gerontology. The grounds also hold a 1974 tile panel by Sergio Migliaccio depicting the Serra de Campos do Jordão landscape.
The Santa Casa de Misericórdia opened the Asilo da Mendicidade on 2 July 1885 in the former Hospital da Glória on Rua da Glória, Liberdade, after the city council pressed for a shelter in 1874; it began with nine inmates and was overcrowded within a year. In 1910 it was renamed Asilo dos Inválidos, and in 1911 it moved to Avenida Guapira in Jaçanã, into a building designed by Ramos de Azevedo, on land from the old Guapira farm.
The building houses religious artworks and a ceramic tile panel created by artist Sergio Migliaccio in 1974, which shapes the visual character of the interior spaces.
The hospital stands at Avenida Guapira 2674, on land that belonged to the old Guapira farm. It keeps an outpatient clinic open to the surrounding Jaçanã community, alongside 24-hour inpatient nursing care. Religion classes are open to the public, and academic placements in geriatrics and gerontology take place on site.
The site sits on a remnant of the old Guapira farm, land tied to the formation of the Jaçanã neighbourhood. The same grounds were partly occupied by the Hospital São Luiz Gonzaga, formerly the Guapira leprosarium, before the asylum moved here in 1911.
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