The name "San Raffaele" originates from the Hebrew word Raf-el, which means "God’s medicine" or "God heals". The San Raffaele hospital is a private Scientific Institute, belonging to the San Raffaele del Monte Tabor Foundation, recognised by the Italian Ministry of Health as a Scientific Institute carrying out biomedical research and clinical activities of relevant national interest (IRCCS).

According to the inspiring principles of its founding Organisation, the mission of the San Raffaele is to cure and assist diseased individuals, following the Gospel proposition "Go, teach, heal". Such a mission is accomplished by focusing every aspect of the Institute’s activities on Man, viewed as an multifaceted entity endowed with inseparable biological, psychological and spiritual elements.

List of Specialities and Departments:

• Internal Medicine
• General Surgery
• Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
• Neurological Surgery
• Neurology
• Urology
• Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Orthopedics
• Pediatrics
• Ophthalmology

• General surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Orthopaedic surgery
• Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
• Neurological Surgery
• Urology Services
• Brachytherapy
• CaverMapTM Surgical Aid
• Cryosurgery
• Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
• Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy
• Lithotripsy