University Hospital Aachen — an expert-level multidisciplinary medical centre

University Hospital Aachen, also known as Uniklinik Aachen, is the largest multidisciplinary medical centre in Europe and is classified at the highest level of care provision (supra-maximum care). The complex  comprises 40 specialised clinical departments, 30 research institutes, 5 interdisciplinary units and 21 highly specialised centres. The emergency department provides urgent care in critical situations, including for people injured in accidents, fires and other emergencies. The hospital has a helipad that can receive several air-ambulance helicopters at the same time.

The hospital occupies one of the largest hospital buildings in the world; it is a hub of advanced research, the teaching hospital of the medical faculty of Germany's top university — RWTH Aachen University — and a highly respected interdisciplinary general hospital of international standing. All of its departments are located under one roof, which ensures exceptionally close interdisciplinary cooperation between specialists from every field of medicine. Here everything — including the systematic links between everyday practice and research — is geared towards your comfort and the fastest possible recovery.

Facts and figures

• 1400 inpatient beds;
• > 6000 staff members;
• > 45.000 inpatients  per year;
• > 226.000 outpatients per year;
  
• 95 professors;
• 940 doctors;
• 480 senior physicians;
• > 4000  support staff;
• > 5000 research staff

The seamless cooperation between the hospital's departments of nuclear medicine, diagnostic and interventional radiology, and diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology ensures the highest standards and the greatest accuracy of diagnosis and treatment. The hospital is a leader in its field and one of the main sites where the newest high-technology treatments are trialled.

The highest standards of care and patient safety are the hospital's priorities, as confirmed by its participation in numerous national and international healthcare quality programmes. Since 2010 it has been one of the few hospitals in Germany taking part in the WHO High 5s project, which includes programmes such as “Safe Surgery”. It also operates an internal safety and service quality monitoring system (CIRS) and a rigorous hospital hygiene management system; the rate of recorded cases of infection at University Hospital Aachen is half the average for hospitals in Germany.

The hospital comprises departments specialising in the following fields:

neurosurgery, anaesthesiology, ophthalmology, intensive care, urology, dermatology, gynaecology, obstetrics, gynaecological endocrinology and reproductive medicine, neuroradiology, epileptology, prevention and treatment of dementia, treatment of Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease, psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, diagnostic and interventional radiology, gastroenterology, endocrinology and diabetology, neurosurgery, surgery: general, visceral, transplant, vascular, burns and plastic, hand surgery, cardiology, pulmonology, angiology, intensive care and nuclear medicine, dentofacial orthopaedics, otolaryngology, paediatrics, neonatology, cardiology, traumatology and orthopaedics, diagnostic imaging, immunology and rheumatology, nephrology, neurology, radiology, endoscopy, immunology, transplantology, haematology, oncology, stem cell transplantation, audiology, phoniatrics, communication disorders, paediatric psychosomatics, psychotherapy and psychiatry, paediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery, dental prosthetics, dental surgery, periodontology, preventive dentistry, tooth preservation and more.

Advantages of treatment at University Hospital Aachen

• comprehensiveness: the complete range of services within a single institution;
• innovative diagnostics that are highly informative and extremely precise;
• expert-level staff: the ability to solve the most complex clinical cases; a focus on results;
• a personalised approach: a standard of care that meets the expectations of the most demanding patients;
• responsibility: treatment is prescribed individually, taking into account how the disease is progressing in each particular patient.

The hospital's work is built on an inseparable link between clinical care, scientific research and continuous professional education. This is what makes the most effective treatment possible.

University Hospital Aachen is a place where advanced technology goes hand in hand with genuine care and an individual approach to every person.

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