Access

• From Alcalá de Henares:

- Public local bus Line L3, from Plaza de Cervantes to Espartales.^[2]

- Public local bus Line L10, from Vía Complutense to Espartales.^[3]

• From Madrid: Intercity bus line 227, at the interchanger from America Avenue (Madrid) to Espartales – University (Alcalá de Henares).^[4]

Social-Health Attention

The centre offers Primary Care health attention of Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Midwifery and Odontology; as well as social services with a Social Worker. The professional staff is integrated by 14 Family doctors, 5 Pediatricians, 14 Nurses, 2 Physiotherapist, 2 Matron, 1 Odontologist, 1 Social Worker, 6 Administrative Assistants, 1 Nursery assistant and 1 Odontologist assistant. The attention is from Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 21:00 hours of opening The Centre refers specialist consultations to the Diagnosis and Treatment Integrated Centre Fancisco Diaz and also to the Principe de Asturias University Hospital.

Teaching Centre

The centre is a teaching centre for practicing and it is connected to:

• The Multiprofessional Teaching Unit of the EAST Familiar and Community Attention to provide education to residents of Family Doctors Specialists ^[6]
• The University of Alcalá to provide tutelary training to students of Medicine or Nursery
• To the Illustrious Official College of Physicians of Madrid to retrain Family Doctors
• moreover, the centre performs practices of sanitary administrative assistant.

Denomination

Its name is in memorial of Miguel de Cervantes, a distinguished native and universal writer. Some Cervantes's sentences related with health are listed below:^[relevant?]

• “To eat a bit and dinner less, because the whole body health is made in the office of the stomach.”
• “Sorrows were not made for beasts but for men; unless men suffered them a lot and they become beasts.”
• “It is better the pain in the face rather than a spot in the heart.”
• “I will die of old age but I will not fully understand the biped animal called man, because every man is a variety of his species.”
• “Don't walk, Sancho, ungirded and untwisted, because decomposed dress is suggested of a sad mood.”
• “Oh, memory, mortal enemy of my rest!”
• “You would better have a moderate rest, because who does not wake up with the sun does not enjoy the day.”
• “If jealousy are love sings, it is like the cold sore in the sick man, to get it is a sign of being alive but that is a sick live and not willing.”
• “A good contrition is the best medicine for the illness of the soul.”