Austral University Hospital
The Austral University Hospital (Spanish: Hospital Universitario Austral) is a teaching hospital in Argentina. It provides hospital care, teaching, and medical research. It is part of the Austral University Academic Center of Health, along with the School of Biomedical Sciences. It is considered to be one of the best hospitals in Argentina, and among the best in Latin America. It received the Joint Commission International Gold Seal of approval in 2013. In 2012, then-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner had a surgery to remove her Thyroid gland in this hospital.