The building was designed in 1929 to be used as a modern hospital. The upper floor was distributed in two pavilions, one for men with six rooms and the other with seven, for women. Next to this last pavilion, the room for five Carmelites was also prepared with a small dining room.

On the ground floor, there was a large room with capacity for eight beds, a small first-aid kit and laboratory, offices and an operating room. In addition, just behind, an enormous courtyard with a well used as a laundry room and separated from the rest of the building, a small room planned for an infectious disease pavilion.

On at least two occasions the project was rejected by the Provincial Health Commission, as it failed to comply in many respects with the regulations then required for a building of these characteristics, and suffered from quite a few defects: 13 beds were planned, when the minimum required for the population at the time (7000 inhabitants) was 25 beds. There was a lack of space per patient, since at least 37 to 40 m³ where needed, while the project had an average of 32 m³ per patient. Some rooms had indirect ventilation, and this was another problem that was difficult to solve.

The final result is that the hospital wasn’t as successful as expected, and the nuns hardly attended any sporadic patients, so they used the room below to teach young girls.

In 1931 the subsidy to the Barefoot Carmelite Sisters was finally suspended and the contract with them was terminated, so they finally left the building and moved to Calle Cervantes, where they would continue to give classes until the end of the war.

The hospital was actually only used in the last months of the war, when it was authorized to treat the wounded, being called a blood hospital.

A huge red cross was painted on the roof.

It was also used to house some refugees during the war, and at the end of the war, as a temporary prison.

On January 7^th, 1961, the municipal library was inaugurated in a room on the first floor. In 1984, it was moved to premises in Pablo Picasso, which soon became too small. Again, in 1992, new premises were opened here, this time larger (175 m) and on the second floor.

Source: "Almoradí, Un recorrido histórico" de José Antonio Latorre Coves