Danderyd Hospital

Danderyd Hospital
Danderyds sjukhus in 2014
Map
Geography
LocationDanderyd Municipality, Stockholm County,  Sweden
Coordinates59°23′31″N 18°02′24″E / 59.39194°N 18.04000°E / 59.39194; 18.04000
Organisation
FundingPublic hospital
TypeDistrict General, Teaching
Affiliated universityKarolinska Institutet
Services
Emergency departmentYes
Beds536[1]
HelipadYes
History
Opened2 January 1922[1]

Danderyd Hospital (Swedish: Danderyds sjukhus) is a teaching hospital in Danderyd Municipality in northern Greater Stockholm opened in 1922. Until 1964 it was called Centrallasarettet i Stocksund.[1]

Danderyd Hospital is one of Sweden's largest emergency hospitals and provides university healthcare distributed across twelve operational areas. Annually, the hospital receives approximately 90,000 emergency patients, 429,000 outpatient visits and 50,000 inpatient visits, and performs 6,300 deliveries. In collaboration with the Karolinska Institutet (KIDS), education and research is conducted around the most common public diseases. Annually, roughly 2,000 students from roughly 100 different institutions of higher learning are welcomed in about 30 different educational programs. The hospital was founded in 1922 as Stockholm County's central hospital in Mörby and was renamed in 1964 to Danderyd Hospital. Danderyds Sjukhus AB is a wholly owned company within Region Stockholm and has around 4,500 employees.

  1. ^ a b c "Historik" (in Swedish). Danderyds Sjukhus AB. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2011.