Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia

The Herz und Diabeteszentrum (Heart and Diabetes Centre), is a heart clinic in the German town Bad Oeynhausen. It is known for performing the most heart transplants in Europe (over 2,200 since 1989).

Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen (HDZ NRW)
Krankenhausbetriebsgesellschaft Bad Oeynhausen mbH
Main entrance
The hospitals location within Germany
Geography
LocationGeorgstraße 11, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Coordinates52.19163°N 8.79402°E / 52.19163; 8.79402
Organisation
TypeSpecialist
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds500 (2010)[1]
SpecialityHeart and Diabetes
HelipadYes
History
Opened1980
Links
Websitewww.hdz-nrw.de
ListsHospitals in Germany
Other linkswww.hdz-nrw.de/en (English site)

Cooperations

Besides having a lot of cooperations with the clinics and institutes of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, it has a lot of national and international cooperations. International cooperations are:[2]

General orientation

The general orientation of the HDZ NRW is to improve the quality of living of cardiac and diabetes patients by a great amount. The patients get the best treatment with a low risk due to their high performance technology.[3]

References

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