Karolinska University Hospital
| Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset | |
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| Sponsorship | Stockholm County |
| place | Solna and Huddinge , Sweden |
| Coordinates | 59 ° 21 '8 " N , 18 ° 1' 56" E |
| Hospital director | Birgir Jakobsson |
| beds | 1,600 |
| Employee | 15,000 |
| founding | January 1, 2004 |
| Website | karolinska.se |
The Karolinska University Hospital ( Swedish Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset) is a hospital in the Swedish province of Stockholm County , the two main locations in Solna and Huddinge operates. It was formed on January 1, 2004 through a merger of the Karolinska Hospital ( Karolinska sjukhuset , KS for short) and the Huddinge University Hospital ( Huddinge universitetssjukhus , HS for short).
General
Departments and branches
The former Karolinska Hospital, located directly north of Stockholm's city limits in Solna , is now part of this university hospital. The Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital (Astrid Lindgrens barnsjukhus) and the Swedish Poison Information Center are also located there.
The Radiumheim (Radiumhemmet) performs non-surgical cancer treatments. It was founded in 1910 by Gösta Forssell , the "father of Swedish radiology", and at that time used X-rays and radium instead of the previous surgery. In 1937 it was moved from Södermalm to the campus of the Karolinska Hospital in Solna. At the same time it was nationalized, while before that it was operated by Cancerföreningen, a private organization in Stockholm. The operation continues to include radiation treatment, drug cancer treatment, cancer prevention and palliative oncology. There is also a research laboratory.
The former Huddinge University Hospital is in close proximity to various research and study facilities in Flemingsberg in Huddinge Municipality, which is south of Stockholm.
The two main locations are approx. 15.5 km apart as the crow flies.
The Karolinska Trial Alliance conducts clinical trials in Stockholm County. The department's job is to lay the foundations for the development of new drugs and more effective nursing.
Karolinska has several branches in the greater Stockholm area, such as B. Oncology units in Danderyds sjukhus in Danderyd and in Södersjukhus in the Stockholm district of Södermalm .
statistics
Karolinska is the most important hospital in the greater Stockholm area with a catchment area of around 2.0 million inhabitants.
In 2008 it had around 1,600 care places, 15,000 employees and 2,100 scientists. In that year it received approximately 1.26 billion Swedish crowns in research funding. The turnover was 12.2 billion crowns.
It is owned and operated by the Provincial Administration of the Province of Stockholm County (healthcare in Sweden is the responsibility of the provinces). It works closely with the renowned medical university Karolinska Institute , whose research and study locations are each directly adjacent to the hospitals in Solna and Huddinge.
history
Karolinska Hospital in Solna
The planning of the hospital began in 1931 under the architect Carl Westman . After his death in 1936, Sven Ahlbom and Sven Malm took over responsibility. The first department, the Radiumheim (Radiumhemmet), began operations in 1937. The hospital was inaugurated in 1940. Within a decade, buildings for psychiatry and dermatology were added. A children's hospital was later built and merged with the children's hospital at St. Göran Hospital in Stockholm's Kungsholmen district . This department was inaugurated in 1998 as the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital (Astrid Lindgrens barnsjukhus) .
Until 1982 the hospital was a Reichskrankenhaus (rikssjukhus), i.e. a supraregional hospital. It was handed over by the state to the provincial administration and has since acted as an emergency hospital for the Stockholm province and as the university hospital of the Karolinska Institute . Both the Swedish heir to the throne Victoria of Sweden and her daughter Estelle of Sweden were born here.
Huddinge Hospital
The first patients were admitted to the Huddinge hospital in 1972. The first bone marrow transplant in Sweden was performed there in 1975, and the first liver transplant in 1984.
Previous hospital directors (Sjukhus directors)
- 2004–2007 Cecilia Schelin Seidegård
- since 2007 Birgir Jakobsson
The New Karolinska Solna (Nya Karolinska Solna)
With the New Karolinska Solna ( Nya Karolinska Solna, NKS for short ), a new complex has been built next to the current hospital in Solna since 2010, which is to replace the existing buildings. The old hospital is seen as outdated and in need of renovation. The first patients should be admitted to the new hospital at the end of 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Forssell, Gösta. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 416.
- ↑ Regionernas befolkningsunderlag och universitets- / regionsjukhus ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (2007)
- ↑ Karolinska - Sjukhusledning ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Construction Project. (No longer available online.) Stockholms läns landsting, December 12, 2013, archived from the original on July 13, 2014 ; Retrieved May 28, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The new Hospital. (No longer available online.) Stockholms läns landsting, September 17, 2013, archived from the original on July 13, 2014 ; Retrieved May 28, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
