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About Tartu University Hospital

Tartu University Hospital (Tartu Ülikooli Kliinikum) founded in 1804 and is the largest health care provider and only university hospital in Estonia. Healthcare services are provided to all people in Estonia, the largest selection of medical specialties is represented. Unique to Estonia, it includes services from prenatal counselling, obstetrics and neonatal intensive care to full treatment and counselling of elderly patients. We are distinguished by the provision of healthcare services in the widest sense possible, from prevention of diseases and primary healthcare services to specific highly technological sub-specialties. Tartu University Hospital is the only institution to perform organ transplantations in Estonia. Likewise pediatric patients with congenital heart diseases are referred to Tartu University Hospital and the center of clinical genetics serves the whole Estonian population. In cooperation with the University of Tartu and Tartu Health Care College, the Hospital provides undergraduate and postgraduate education for doctors, nurses and other healthcare specialties, as well as further training. The Hospital works in close cooperation with research and development institutions and companies domestically as well as abroad. Tartu University Hospital integrates work with scientific research. Education and research are undertaken in close collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine. Both, Faculty and Tartu University Hospital, are widely known by clinical trials and clinical research in human health. In addition, the tight co-operation between the University and the University Hospital creates mutual synergy between preclinical and clinical research. The hospital’s mission is to offer people-centered and science-based healthcare services as a center of excellence in academic medicine.