As a highly specialized hospital, Institut Guttmann's mission is to give the best surgical, medical and rehabilitation treatment at all times. Treatment must be comprehensive, continuous, customized and at the highest possible level of human, scientific and technical excellence.

Multidisciplinary team work, its own healthcare plans, expert and quality staff and scientific accuracy applied to all its procedures make Institut Guttmann into a centre of excellence. Institut Guttmann's hallmark is its ability to generate new knowledge and innovative techniques and its own therapeutic procedures for neurorehabilitation. These factors make it into one of the leading hospitals in its field in the world.

Its educational and research activities, based on Institut Universitari, add to its reputation as a centre of knowledge in neurorehabilitation. At the same time, it meets its basic goals in rights promotion and equal opportunities for people with disabilities, thus becoming an organization committed to both the community and to people in general.