Our hospital offers specialized care, targeting all the major disease groups. A process-oriented working method is used at Danderyd University Hospital which cuts across traditional clinical boundaries, and in which the patient’s needs guide diagnostics, care and treatment provided.
In addition to a broad range of specialized areas of care, our hospital also harbours certain critical functions such as a nationwide respiratory dispensary, university clinic for rehabilitation medicine, and one of Sweden’s largest speech clinics. Niche activities within the area of elective care include complex hip prostheses, treatment for arrhythmias, advanced angina therapy and surgical and medical treatment of obesity.
Our care is based on good clinical practice and evidence-based medicine. Our
strength lies in our ability to focus on the patient and combine personalised service with interdisciplinary co-operation, across clinical boundaries, thereby ensuring that our patients always have access to the resources of the whole hospital.
The research is conducted in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital (KI DS). The research is clinical with translational components. About 50 post-graduate students are active at the department and approximately 10 of them defend their PhD thesis each year. Each year approximately 2,000 students conduct their clinical education or parts of it at the hospital.
Facts in brief 2007
- Emergency hospital for over 440,000 inhabitants mainly living in the northern part of Stockholm
- 536 hospital beds
- Patient Hotel offering 76 rooms and 24-hour nursing service
- More than 3,300 employees (incl. approximately 1,200 nurses, 500 doctors, and over 800 auxiliary nurses)
- 231,000 physician consultations
- 84,000 other out-patient consultations
- 67,000 A&E visits of which 22,000 adminissions
- 37, 800 in-patient treatments, of which 31,300 acute
- 9,600 in-patient operations and 5,700 in day surgery
- 5,800 deliveries, incl. 700 planned caesarean sections
- 1,000 patients with acute myocardial infarction
- 92,400 X-ray examinations and 17,200 screenings with mammography
- SEK 2.3 billion in turnover
- SEK 1.5 billion in personel costs