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Funding
  
Public hospital

Emergency department
  
Yes

Beds
  
about 1,736

Founded
  
1 January 2004

Hospital type
  
Teaching

Helipad
  
Yes ICAO: ESHK

Phone
  
+46 8 517 700 00

Affiliated university
  
Karolinska Institute

Karolinska University Hospital

Location
  
Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Solna, 171 76 Stockholm Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Huddinge, 141 86 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Address
  
Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Karolinska vägen, 171 76 Solna, Sweden

CEO
  
Melvin Samsom (1 Oct 2014–)

Founders
  
Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital

Similar
  
Karolinska Institute, Södersju, Danderyds Sjukhus, SL Center, Astrid Lindgrens barnsjukh

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The Karolinska University Hospital (Swedish: Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset) is a university hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Huddinge and Solna.

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The present day Karolinska University Hospital is the result of a 2004 merger between the former Huddinge University Hospital (Huddinge Universitetssjukhus) in Huddinge, south of Stockholm, and the Karolinska Hospital (Karolinska Sjukhuset) in Solna, north of Stockholm. The new hospital has about 15,000 employees and 1,700 patient beds. The Karolinska University Hospital is closely affiliated with the Karolinska Institutet. It incorporates the Astrid Lindgren Children’s hospital in Solna and the Children’s Hospital in Huddinge.

The Karolinska University Hospital in Solna is in the process of being replaced by The New Karolinska Solna University Hospital, to be completed by end of 2016.

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia eldest daughter Crown Princess Victoria was born in 14 July 1977 at Karoliska University Hospital.

Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel's children Princess Estelle and Prince Oscar was born in 23 February 2012 and 2 March 2016 at Karoliska Unitversity Hospital.

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References

Karolinska University Hospital Wikipedia