Saint Göran Hospital | |
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Location | Stockholm County, Sweden |
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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 the prime emergency hospital.
Approximately 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.