It is a branch of the larger Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, a merged institution created during the eruption of the European sovereign debt crisis and the Portuguese economic and financial crisis in 2012, that reorganized both the Centro and the Coimbra University Hospitals.
It is a division of the bigger Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, formed in 2012 because of the financial difficulties in Europe and Portugal, which merged both the Centro and the Coimbra University Hospitals.