Clinic Nürnberg Nord

Capacity — 1,291 beds.

Specialisations: diabetology, gastroenterology, visceral surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, plastic surgery, psychiatry, pulmonology, oncology, radiation therapy, rheumatology, urology, anesthesiology, cardiology, dermatology, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, palliative therapy.

Nürnberg clinic is over 120 years old. Its story began in 1897 as the city hospital, with 6,800 patients per year, 160 employees and 761 beds.

Today there are more than 100,000 inpatients and 105,000 outpatients, 7,000 employees and 2,206 beds in two locations — in the north and south of Nürnberg. The northern interdisciplinary centres are far ahead of most clinics in Germany and Europe. The hospital is divided into 42 clinics, numerous medical institutes and departments. The number of students is around 420.

Although the number of patients and staff has remained almost unchanged over the years, since 1995 the number of inpatients has increased from 62,000 to 100,000. The average length of stay has decreased from 12 to 5.9 days — the clinic began to be treated not only more effectively, but also more speedy, saving patients time and money.

Continuous modernisation of buildings, expansion of treatment programs and innovations in the field of medical technology provide the standards of medical care at the highest level. For the city and the entire region, the Nürnberg Clinic is of great importance not only as a healthcare centre, but also as an important centre for education and training, as well as an engine for research and development

The Nürnberg Clinic uses its know-how as a hospital with a maximum level of performance with all the necessary special disciplines to create networks for certain common clinical pictures. The clinic's goal is to provide early detection, treatment and follow-up care, as well as to establish close cooperation between outpatient and inpatient treatment.

Specialised societies and centres provide their patients with interdisciplinary and treatment-oriented healthcare tumours at the Nürnberg clinic. Among the certified centres there are the Breast centre, the Prostate centre, the Lung cancer centre and the Skin cancer centre.

The pediatric centre closely cooperates with an obstetrics clinic, a clinic for newborns, children and adolescents, a department for pediatric surgery, and a department for psychiatry, psychosomatics, and psychotherapy for children and adolescents. In Perinatal centre 1 there are more than 80 premature newborns, 30 of whom have a birth weight of less than 1000 g, i.e. premature newborns, who receive medical treatment at the highest level.

Since the number of elderly patients, who simultaneously suffer from several diseases and therefore, need special care, continues to grow, a centre for geriatric medicine has been established. Geriatrics, neurology, psychiatry and psychosomatics work closely together to develop coordinated treatment plans for each patient.

At the Sleep Medicine Center, specialists will get to the bottom of all kinds of sleep disorders. Psychiatry, pulmonology, neurology and an ear, nose and throat clinic work closely together in a sleep laboratory.

The interdisciplinary Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine provides patients with chronic pain with a specialised, multi-week treatment program that includes therapists, psychosomatics, neurologists and specialists in physical and rehabilitation medicine.

A principle of interdisciplinarity means new models of cooperation between clinics — the interdisciplinary distribution of wards is the future of a large, multi-profile hospital.

At the Interdisciplinary Cancer Centre of the Nürnberg Clinic, with 8,500 patients per year, is able to diagnose significantly more new cases of cancer patients than in many other university hospitals. For almost 20 years, the clinic has had its own training centre with extensive experience in conducting clinical research. After successful research, the oncology department of the hospital has already released several medications that today are helping many patients as standard therapy throughout the world.