We are a Social Company of the State of the Municipality of Medellin, we contribute to the equitable improvement of the quality of life of the population, with actions of promotion, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation, by means of a solid network of services of health based on the ethics, the human warmth, the opportune service, the participation, the appropriate technology and the coordination with public and private entities

For the year 2010 we will be a leading corporation in the service of integral services of health in the first level of attention, we will consolidate the services in the second level and will have the best hospitable network of Colombia.

Although the ESE Metrosalud was born on June 23, 1994, his roots go back to previous periods of five years, when in the city there existed other entities that little by little were transforming in what today is.

It was covering the decade of the forties and Medellin was a small city that scarcely was appearing to the vertiginous XXth century. The leaders of the epoch created a governing entity of the health for the city: the Secretary of Hygiene and Social Assistance that then would be called a Secretary of Education, Health and Social Well-being. They were the first steps in search of a system of health adapted for the more and more increasing population of Medellin.

There were always different names and structural changes of the entity, according to the needs of every moment, but from the law 100 of 1993, which reformed the Colombian System of Health, Metrosalud began his entire transformation. With the Decree 752 of 1994, the institution adapted itself to the new legal dispositions, surviving as a decentralized entity of municipal character with personería juridical, proper patrimony and administrative autonomy under the tutelage of a Directorate and a Manager.

In the year 1995, the ESE leaves the functions of alertness and control, which were delivered to the newly created Local Direction Secretary of Social Security in Health (Secretary of Health as today we know her). From then, the target misional of Metrosalud focused in turned into an institution Loaner of Services of Health for the attention of the most vulnerable population of the city.

Later, in the year 1998, the Municipal Administration began a study with the signature Teckné to determine the viability of Metrosalud and there arose the possibility of splitting the institution in several Social Companies of the State. After months of white hot debates, one determined that Metrosalud had to remain as only one entity based on the concept of Hospitable Network.

In 2006 and with the intention of fitting to Metrosalud to the new economic and social realities, THAT ONE began a finished Plan of Modernization that included projects of big transcendency as the strengthening of the activities of Promotion and Prevention in the intra and extrawall ambience, the Automated Case history, the adjustment to the plant of charges, reconstruction of several points of attention, renewal of the self-propelled park, investment in the comfort of the users, and countable sanitation, with excellent results.