Latvia

Excellence in Patient Treatment, Medical Education and Clinical Research

Facts about Stradins University Hospital:

• Founded in 1910 (100th anniversary in 2010)
• Great investments made by professor Pauls Stradins (1896 - 1958)
• Leading multi-functional university hospital in Latvia
• Operates as state limited liability company, subordinated to Ministry of Health
• 2886 employees
• Leading hospital in cardiology, invasive cardiology, transplantology, vascular diseases, neurology and neurosurger, and internal medicine

Excellence in:

• patient treatment (emergency cases, highly specialized care)
• medical education (pre-diploma and after-diploma training, knowledge centres for nationwide medical services, more than 80 medical doctors and 180 interns)
• and scientific research (clinical R&D)

Key operational indicators (2011):

• 870 beds
• 47111 inpatients, 18 172 day-stationary patients
• 253906 outpatients
• 26 802 surgeries
• Average length of stay - 5,6 days
• Average bed occupancy rate - 83,5%

Structure of the hospital:

• Emergency department
• 8 clinics (internal medicine, surgery, neurosurgery, neurology, otorhinolaryngology, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, anaesthesiology and reanimatology)
• 16 centres – 9 centres are incorporated in the clinic structure (cardiology, transplantation, thoracic surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, vascular diseases, occupational disease and radiology medicine, ambulatory surgery, nephrology, endocrinology, pulmonology, rheumatology, gastrointestinal diseases)
• 2 institutes (Pathology Insitute, Diagnostic Radiology Institute)
• Central Laboratory (clinical, biochemical, microbiology, cytology, clinical immunology)
• Day patient facilities and Outpatient clinic
• Pharmacy 
• Hospital administration and technical departments