UZ Brussels
| Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel | |
|---|---|
| place | Jette |
| state | Brussels Capital Region |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 53 '14 " N , 4 ° 18' 28" E |
| CEO | Marc knobs |
| beds | 729 (2015) |
| Employee | 3412 (2014) |
| Affiliation | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| founding | June 6, 1977 |
| Website | https://www.uzbrussel.be/ (Flemish, French, English) |
The University Hospital Brussels ( UZ Brussel , formerly AZ-VUB ) is a Flemish hospital in the municipality of Jette in the Brussels-Capital Region .
The hospital mainly works with the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel . The university's medical campus is also located in Jette, near the hospital. It is also a teaching hospital for the nursing students of the Erasmushogeschool Brussel , which is also located in Jette.
It has around 700 beds. More than 25,000 inpatients and 400,000 outpatients are treated annually.
history
After the Free University of Brussels was split into a French-speaking and a Flemish university in 1968/69, the Flemish Vrije Universiteit Brussel considered building a medical faculty with an attached hospital.
The foundation stone was laid on April 18, 1977, the first patient was admitted on June 6, 1977, and the official opening of the hospital was on October 13, 1977. At that time there were 124 beds. The number of beds grew to 439 by 1980 and was 679 in 1987. In 2006, 30 beds were taken over from the Dodoen Hospital. In 2009, 20 beds were added in the area of child and adolescent psychiatry.
The hospital's emergency center helped provide first aid after the 1985 Heysel disaster and after the Herald of Free Enterprise sank in 1987, and was part of the disaster planning for the 2000 European Football Championship .
Personalities
The following personalities were or are connected to the Brussels UZ:
- Mbark Boussoufa (* 1984), soccer player, donated € 10,000 to the children's clinic of the UZ Brussel in 2012
- Pedro Brugada (* 1952), cardiologist, head of the Heart Rhythm Management Center at the UZ Brussel
- Erik Derycke (* 1949), politician ( BWP ), Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Brussels UZ
- Willy Gepts (1922–1991), pathologist and diabetologist, head of pathology at the UZ Brussel
- Fernando Nobre (* 1951), doctor and human rights activist, doctor in surgery and urology at UZ Brussels
- Elke Sleurs (* 1968), gynecologist and politician ( N-VA ), doctor in prenatal diagnostics at the UZ Brussels
- Jean-Pierre Van Rossem (1945–2018), politician ( ROSSEM ), sponsor and author, died in Brussels UZ
Web links
- Brussels UZ website (Flemish, French, English)
- Photo of the hospital on realdolmen.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the hospital on the website of Vriend voor het Leven, an initiative of the UZ Brussel (Flemish)
- ↑ AZ-VUB stands for "Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit Brussel".
- ↑ a b Van AZ-VUB to UZ Brussel, met Luc Corne . Article by Luc Corne in issue 3/2007 of muze, the magazine of the UZ Brussel ( PDF , 1.82 MB; Flemish)
- ↑ 30 years UZ Brussels: evolutie activiteiten . Article by Dirk Corens in issue 3/2007 of muze, the magazine of the UZ Brussel (PDF, 1.82 MB; Flemish)
- ↑ Mbark Boussoufa donates € 10,000 to the Kinderziekenhuis UZ Brussel . Article on the website of the Brussels UZ (Flemish)