| Ljubljana University Medical Centre | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Zaloška cesta 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Organisation | |
| Funding | Public hospital |
| Type | Public Academic Medical Center |
| Affiliated university | University of Ljubljana |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 2,138 |
| Helipad | Yes |
| History | |
| Opened | 29 November 1975 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Slovenia |
The Ljubljana University Medical Centre (Slovene: Univerzitetni klinični center Ljubljana, abb. UKC Ljubljana) or Ljubljana UMC is the largest hospital centre in Slovenia based in Ljubljana. It was officially opened on 29 November 1975 and as of December 2019[update] has over 2,100 beds and over 8,300 employees, making it one of the largest hospital centres in Central Europe.[1]
It is the main training base for the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, which is housed nearby. Since February 2023, the Director General of the Ljubljana University Medical Centre has been the traumatologist Marko Jug.[2][3]
The construction of the central building started in 1966 and was completed in 1975.[4] The design was work by a group of architects led by Stanko Kristl (diagnostic, therapeutic, and service facilities – DTS) and the architect Janez Trenz (in-patient wards). In 2005, a company led by the architect Uroš V. Birsa designed a new emergency centre.[5]
- ^ Klinični center Ljubljana (medical centre). Ljubljana.si. Accessed 2009-06-24. Archived 27 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Marko Jug novi generalni direktor UKC Ljubljana" [Marko Jug Becomes the New Director General of the Ljubljana UMC] (in Slovenian). Slovenian Press Agency. 25 January 2023.
- ^ "Vlada dala soglasje k imenovanju novega generalnega direktorja UKC-ja Ljubljana" [The Government Gives its Consent to the Appointment of the new Director General of the UMC Ljubljana] (in Slovenian). MMC RTV Slovenija. 2 February 2023.
- ^ Štrumbl, Žarko (2018). "Gradnja UKC 1966–1975: Gradivo o Univerzitetnem kliničnem centru Ljubljana" [Construction of the UMC 1966–1975: Material on the University Medical Centre Ljubljana] (PDF). Arhivi (in Slovenian). 45 (1). Archival Association of Slovenia, Archives of Slovenia. ISSN 0351-2835.
- ^ Polona, Balantič (5 February 2018). "Stanko Kristl: arhitektu so nekoč zaupali in zato so bili veliki projekti možni" [Stanko Kristl: the Architect was Once Trusted and that's Why Big Projects Were Possible] (in Slovenian). MMC RTV Slovenia.