The purpose of this study was to characterize the hospitals of the municipality of São Paulo, with or without Intensive Care Units (ICU). It was analysed the maintainers entities of these hospitals, the type of assistance, and their geoghaphic localization in accordance to the proposition of SUDS (Unificated and Decentralized System of Health). The results demonstrated that there is an uneven distribution of those resources with concentration in central areas, predominance of general and private hospitals and the use of those resources have been difficult to population.
Hospitals; Intensive care units