UKE

The hospital was originally founded in the Eppendorf district of suburban Hamburg in 1884 in spacious park grounds. It became a university hospital in 1934 and now provides medical treatment as well as carrying out research in medical science.

The UKE opened its ultramodern new building in January 2009 and is thus the most modern hospital in all of Europe.Currently, the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf has 14 centres, in which more than 80 clinics, policlinics and research institutes perform interdisciplinary work.University Medical Centers in Germany have inpatient departments with a minimum of 800 beds and many outpatient clinics with highly specialised policlinics.
They represent a combination of medical treatment, research and science and education and are part of the medical faculty of a university. This combination is very successful because latest results of medical research and science go - after a substantial process of proof - directly into the clinical work of doctors.
This leads to the highest level of medical treatment in the clinical departments of University Medical Centers.

The UKE’s medical treatment, science and research have an excellent international reputation. As a result, patients from Germany and from countries all over the world come to us to undergo medical treatment. Our patients can be sure of receiving state-of-the-art medical treatment, taking into account the latest knowledge and developments in medicine.
Our attention is centred on our patients, providing them with the highest quality medical treatment, research and medical science.

UKE employees are dedicated to doing an excellent job.Patients with seldom and complex diseases can visit our highly specialised outpatient clinics. There they can join clinical trials. Results of clinical trials are shared on a national and international basis. So it is easier, even for seldom diseases, to transfer results directly into the everyday work in the clinical departments. Precious experiences in the work with patients can be discussed, documented and analysed worldwide. Students of the medical faculty can join the clinical everyday life very early, for instance in bedside-teaching courses. This way, they get excellent practical experience. Specializations of young doctors, for instance in order to become a surgeon, are also performed at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.