Map of the Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paul along with the area of health from the University of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia. The idea of founding the Hospital dates back to 1912 when a group of philanthropists Antioquenos seeing the depressing state it was in the Hospital San Juan God, the only Hospital of the City of Medellin decides to intervene. This group was led by Alejandro Echavarria Isaza, who said “… I have decided to found a hospital, but a large hospital, so great that it always has sufficient capacity to accommodate every child of Antioquia and the rest of the country need to their services “. From the outset the idea had the support of the Church of the industrialists, the intelligentsia of the time and medical knowledge reached by the School of Medicine, University of Antioquia, established since 1871. The construction was carried out primarily by funds from philanthropy. The hospital was opened on 10 May 1934. In 1938 it opened the ER for adults.After 1962 it starts in the building currently occupied known as the municipal polyclinic. In 1940 it founded the Children’s Pavilion “Clarita Santos, this gave rise to Children’s Hospital in 1961. In 1979 the city of Medellin is affected by an earthquake caused serious damage to the block of General Surgery and the Surgical Specialist. But thanks to the support of Antioquia, the business sector, state and society as a whole, and institutional efforts could reconstruct the affected areas.