Uppsala University Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Uppsala, Sweden |
Coordinates | 59°50′50″N 17°38′25″E / 59.84722°N 17.64028°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public |
Type | Teaching |
Affiliated university | Uppsala University |
Services | |
Emergency department | Trauma center |
Beds | 940 |
History | |
Opened | 1302 1708 University Clinic 1850 Merger |
Links | |
Website | http://www.akademiska.se/ |
Lists | Hospitals in Sweden |
Uppsala University Hospital (Swedish: Akademiska sjukhuset, often referred to colloquially as "Akademiska" or "Ackis") in Uppsala, Sweden, is a teaching hospital for the Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine and the Nursing School. Uppsala University Hospital is owned and operated by the Uppsala County Council in cooperation with the university and serves, together with Enköping hospital in Enköping, as the primary hospitals for Uppsala County. It also fills the function of a tertiary referral hospital for the Uppsala/Örebro health care region and, for certain specialities, a tertiary referral hospital for the entire country of Sweden.