Hermano Pedro's Hospital, Colonial hospital in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala

Hermano Pedro's Hospital is a restored colonial complex in central Antigua Guatemala housing multiple treatment rooms, three modern operating theaters, and residential quarters. The buildings are arranged around courtyards and blend period architecture with practical spaces for medical work.

Dominican friars founded the hospital in 1663. In the 19th century Capuchin nuns managed it and made improvements, and in 1869 the Charity Sisters of San Vicente de Paul took charge. Earthquakes destroyed and rebuilding followed repeatedly over three centuries; after the 1974 quake, Franciscan priest Guillermo Bonilla began rebuilding the ruins from 1984.

The hospital is run by Franciscan friars and is dedicated to Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur, known as Hermano Pedro, who carried the sick in from the streets. His tomb, now a shrine, lies in the transept of San Francisco Church three blocks away on 2nd Avenida and 7th Calle. Over three hundred residents, from newborns to people over ninety, live permanently at Obras Sociales Hermano Pedro.

The building sits on Calle Oriente 6a and is easily accessible from Antigua's center. Keep in mind it operates as a functioning medical facility, so visiting may be subject to time constraints or scheduling restrictions.

Operating rooms here are booked nearly every week of the year by visiting surgical groups, with only one month left free. Surgeons and nurses, often from the United States, work alongside full-time hospital nurses. The hospital takes in about three hundred residents, from newborns to people over ninety.