Hospital type Teaching Website www.tyks.fi Number of beds 900 Founded 1756 | Helipad ICAO: EFTV Opened 17 December 1756 Phone +358 2 3130000 Affiliated university University of Turku | |
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Location Kiinamyllynkatu 4–8, Turku, Turku, FI Address Kiinamyllynkatu 4-8, 20521 Turku, Finland Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursSuggest an edit Similar Jorvi Hospital, Meilahti Tower Hospital, Finlandia Hall - Helsinki, Heureka, Paimio Sanatorium | ||
Turku University Hospital (Finnish: Turun yliopistollinen keskussairaala, TYKS, Swedish: Åbo universitetscentralsjukhus, ÅUCS) is a hospital in Turku, Finland.
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General information
The hospital serves as the central hospital for southwestern Finland. It is located near the city centre of Turku and the university, and has branches in the nearby towns of Raisio and Paimio. The hospital unit in Paimio operates in a former tuberculosis sanatorium, the Paimio Sanatorium, designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
The hospital is owned and operated by the Hospital District of Southwest Finland which is a joint municipal authority responsible for production of specialized medical services in the region.
The hospital has been affiliated with the University of Turku since 1958 and it is used as a teaching hospital by the Faculty of Medicine. Approximately 1,500 students in medicine and nursery practice there every year.
Having been founded in 1756, it is the second oldest hospital in the Nordic countries, after Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen.
Expansion
T-hospital is new part of TYKS and its construction was started 2007 and it is still under construction. In 2009 the construction of first part (part-D) was finished and it's now operational. Whole complex is planned to be finished in 2012. When finished T-hospital will consist of 160,000 square metres (1,700,000 sq ft) of floor space and a helipad.
Statistics
The hospital has 900 beds and its operating volumes were in 2009 as follows:
The mean duration of treatment in 2008 was 4.3 days.
The yearly operating costs for the hospital are 369,2 million euros according to the budget for the fiscal year of 2009.
The hospital has a staff of 3,993. The breakdown of the staff is as follows: