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Southern Norway Regional Health Authority

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Industry
  
Healthcare

Headquarters
  
Skien, Norway

Ceased operations
  
June 1, 2007

Defunct
  
June 1, 2007

Founded
  
1 January 2002

Fate
  
Mergers and acquisitions

Successor
  
Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority

Parent organization
  
Ministry of Health and Care Services

Southern Norway Regional Health Authority (Norwegian: Helse Sør RHF) is a defunct regional health authority that covered the counties of Aust-Agder, Buskerud, Telemark, Vest-Agder and Vestfold in Norway, as well as the national hospitals in Oslo. The authority was founded on January 1, 2002, but merged with Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority to form Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority on June 1, 2007.

The eight health trusts owned by the authority were Blefjell Health Trust, Rikshospitalet–Radiumhospitalet, Vestfold Psychiatric Health Trust, Ringerike Heath Trust, Buskerud Health Trust, Vestfold Health Trust, Telemark Health Trust and Sørlandet Health Trust. It also owned by of Southern and Eastern Norway Pharmaceutical Trust.

References

Southern Norway Regional Health Authority Wikipedia