Heart and Diabetes Center, Bad Oeynhausen

Department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery:

• eight operating rooms equipped with the latest cardiac surgery technology;
• portable circulatory support systems;
• an inpatient unit with 190 beds;
• a unit for patients with an artificial heart, equipped with  ventricular assist devices;
• the "Toscana" VIP unit;
• a heart valve and donor tissue bank;
• the Institute for Applied Telemedicine;
• a research laboratory / Institute for Clinical Research and Development;
• a helipad. 

Department of cardiology:

• 6 cardiac catheterization laboratories and 1 hybrid operating room;
• a sleep laboratory;
• a cardiac intensive care unit;
• an emergency cardiology unit (Chest Pain Unit);
• a cardiology outpatient clinic and 11 specialized outpatient units;
• a day clinic;
• a cardiology research laboratory (genetic counseling, the latest laboratory diagnostic techniques);
• a department of clinical research in cardiology.

Diabetes Center

• equipment for Doppler, duplex and triplex sonography;
• devices for ECG, echocardiography, ergometry and electrophysiological studies
• MRI;
• PET-CT;
• CT and MR imaging;
• telemetric blood glucose monitoring systems;
• endoscopy equipment for gastroscopy and colonoscopy;
• elastography equipment;
• equipment for bone densitometry (osteodensitometry) using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA);
• equipment for bone scintigraphy;
• equipment for measuring body fat, including by DXA.

Center for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery and Center for the Treatment of Congenital Heart Defects:

• MRI and 3D ultrasound;
• a transfusion medicine department;
• CT;
• ECG;
• cardiac catheterization;
• contrast esophagography;
• equipment for bronchoscopy in tracheal compression and tracheomalacia;
• X-ray.

Department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery:

• coronary artery bypass grafting;
• heart valve replacement surgery;
• transcatheter aortic valve implantation;
• heart and heart-lung transplantation;
• pacemaker implantation;
• implantation of cardioverter-defibrillators;
• cardiac resynchronization systems;
• heart transplantation;
• mechanical circulatory support systems.

Department of cardiology:

• congenital heart defects in adults;
• hypertension;
• treatment of heart disease in patients with diabetes;
• impaired blood supply in the central and peripheral vessels;
• inflammatory heart disease;
• coagulopathy;
• arrhythmia;
• heart failure;
• cardiomyopathies;
• heart defects;
• cardiogenetics;
• carotid artery stenosis;
• coronary artery disease;
• dyslipidemia;
• pulmonary diseases;
• sports cardiology;
• sleep-disordered breathing;
• syncope.

Center for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery and Center for the Treatment of Congenital Heart Defects:

• absent pulmonary valve;
• ALCAPA syndrome, Bland-White-Garland syndrome;
• stenosis of the descending segment of the aortic arch;
• aortic stenosis or aortic valve insufficiency;
• subvalvular aortic stenosis;
• supravalvular aortic stenosis;
• aortopulmonary window;
• anatomical correction of transposition of the great arteries;

• congenitally corrected transposition of the great vessels (AV and VA discordance), arterial switch (double switch operation);
• atrial septal defect;
• atrioventricular septal defect;
• hypoplastic left heart syndrome, the Norwood procedure;
• the Blalock-Taussig procedure;
• temporary reduction of pulmonary artery blood flow (banding);
• Glenn anastomosis (bidirectional Glenn shunt);
• the Fontan procedure (single-ventricle heart);
• anomalous pulmonary venous drainage (partial and total);
• mitral stenosis and mitral regurgitation;
• patent ductus arteriosus;
• pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum;
• pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect, with or without major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (MAPCAs);
• pulmonary artery stenosis;
• truncus arteriosus;
• interrupted aortic arch;
• ventricular septal defect.

Diabetes Center:

• diagnosis and treatment of  type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications;
• pregnancy management and care of patients with diabetes mellitus;
• dietitian consultations for people with diabetes;
• educational consultations for patients with diabetes;
• healthy nutrition counseling;
• drug therapy for diabetes and concomitant conditions;
• insulin pump therapy;
• management of diabetes and prediabetes;
• laboratory monitoring of blood sugar levels;    
• drug treatment of obesity with the latest generation of medications;
• general medical assessment of the body's main functions and diabetes prevention;
• inpatient multidisciplinary care for patients with diabetes;
• diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis;
• diagnosis and treatment of diabetic foot;
• diagnosis and treatment of diabetic neuropathy;
• telemedicine;
• diabetes prevention;
• healthy lifestyle education (lifestyle coaching).

• parking for patients and visitors;
• three meals a day for inpatients;
• modern single and double rooms with telephone, television and Internet access;
• a flat-screen television and a telephone with a personal number for every patient;
• wireless Internet access (W-LAN);
• an ATM;

• a hospital library;
• assistance with accommodation for patients' relatives and companions;
• Protestant and Catholic chaplains;
• an interdenominational chapel at the hospital;
• a social work service;
• a pastoral care service;
• information events;
• patient self-help groups.