Saint Göran Hospital
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Saint Göran Hospital (S:t Göran Hospital, in Swedish Sankt Görans sjukhus) is a hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. It is located at Kungsholmen (a small island in the lake Mälaren) in central Stockholm.
S:t Göran Hospital is one of Sweden's oldest hospitals. Already mentioned in letters from the 13th Century it has a proud history of social and medical development. Alongside Karolinska Hospital (Karolinska sjukhuset) it is Stockholms's main hospital and it's the prime emergency hospital in Sweden.
Approx. 1.500 people work at "S:t Göran", including 220 doctors, 560 nurses and 350 assistant nurses. The hospital was corporatized in 1994 and became the first privately owned emergency hospital in Sweden in 1999.
Since 2004 it is also known as Capio S:t Görans Sjukhus.
[edit] External link
- S:t Göran Hospital (official site)