Valencia Basket Undergoes Medical Check-Ups at Quirónsalud Mercado de Colón

The players of Valencia Basket women’s and men’s teams have completed their preseason medical check-ups ahead of the 2025–2026 season at the Quirónsalud Mercado de Colón Medical Center, located in the heart of the capital of Turia.

The tests were coordinated by Dr. Antonio Giner, head of the Sports Medicine Unit at the Quirónsalud Mercado de Colón Medical Center, and Dr. Vicente Sebastiá, medical director of the taronja team.

The check-up program included a stress test, full blood work, electrocardiogram, and echocardiogram, the latter two overseen by Dr. Catheline Lauwers, Head of the Cardiology Department at Quirónsalud Valencia Hospital.

For the past two years, Quirónsalud Valencia Hospital has been the Official Medical Service of Valencia Basket, providing the taronja team with state-of-the-art technical facilities and a multidisciplinary team of leading professionals in the city, prepared to address any health needs that may arise during the season.

Additionally, Quirónsalud Valencia Hospital has become the reference hospital for the Roig Arena, reaffirming the commitment of both institutions to excellence, innovation, and health in an environment that promotes sport, culture, and well-being.

Committed to sports health

Quirónsalud has established itself as a benchmark in sports health care, collaborating in multiple events and sports disciplines. Sport, beyond its link to health through disease prevention and overall quality of life, embodies a set of values with which the Group identifies in its work philosophy: discipline, the spirit of improvement, and continuous growth.

Currently, it serves as the Medical Service of the MotoGP World Championship, the Official Medical Service of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET), the Official Medical Provider of the Spanish Basketball Clubs Association (acb) across all its competitions, the Official Medical Service of the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar, and the Medical Prevention Service of the Royal Spanish Sailing Federation (RFEV) through Quirónprevención. It also collaborates with various football, basketball, and rugby clubs across the country.

In recent years, it has also safeguarded the health of major sporting events such as the last four editions of the Davis Cup Finals held in Spain, as well as other tournaments including the Billie Jean King Cup, Mutua Madrid Open, Open Banc Sabadell – Trofeo Conde de Godó, the last two editions of the Hexagon Cup in padel, the Ocean Race in sailing, the Nationale-Nederlanden San Silvestre Vallecana, the Behobia/San Sebastián race, and the 2021 Women’s EuroBasket held in Spain, among others.

Quirónsalud in the Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia

Quirónsalud operates 10 centers in the Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia, forming a leading group at the forefront of private medicine, where people are at the center.

Quirónsalud is a leader in private healthcare in the Valencian Community and Murcia, both in terms of technological resources and in patient comfort and services.

About Quirónsalud

Quirónsalud is the leading healthcare group in Spain and, together with its parent company Fresenius-Helios, also in Europe. In addition to its operations in Spain, Quirónsalud is also present in Latin America. Altogether, it has more than 50,000 professionals working across more than 180 healthcare centers, including 57 hospitals with over 8,000 hospital beds. It offers the most advanced technology and a highly specialized, internationally renowned team of professionals. Among its centers are Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Centro Médico Teknon, Ruber Internacional, Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud Madrid, Hospital Quirónsalud Barcelona, Hospital Universitari Dexeus, Policlínica Gipuzkoa, Hospital Universitari General de Catalunya, and Hospital Quirónsalud Sagrado Corazón, among others.

The Group is strongly committed to teaching (ten of its hospitals are university hospitals) and medical-scientific research (it has the FJD Health Research Institute, accredited by the Spanish State Secretariat for Research, Development and Innovation).

Furthermore, its healthcare service is organized into transversal units and networks that make it possible to optimize the accumulated experience of its different centers and translate its research findings into clinical practice. Currently, Quirónsalud is developing a wide range of research projects throughout Spain, and many of its centers carry out cutting-edge work in this field, pioneering in specialties such as oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, gynecology, and neurology, among others.