Heidelberg University Hospital

In co-operation with hospitals in the region, doctors in private practice and health insurance companies, the University Hospital also implements innovative models in patient care. The hospital and its co-operating facilities in the region offer outpatient and inpatient diagnostics and treatment for all serious illnesses. Modern buildings with perfect technical equipment form the framework for high-performance medicine for sick people.

The clinics in Neuenheimer Feld are connected in a circle. At the centre of this Heidelberg clinic circle is a central rest and recreation zone. The hospital ring ensures short distances and bundles most medical specialities within a radius of two kilometres. Since summer 2004, the hospital ring has been gradually expanded: Following the construction of the new medical clinic (2004), patients have been treated in the new paediatric and youth clinic since June 2008. The new Women's and Dermatology Clinic was opened in June 2013 and the Infectious Diseases Clinic in 2018. The new Surgical Clinic building will be completed in 2019 and the hospital ring will be finalised. The Heart Centre planned for 2024 - combining cardiology, cardiac surgery and paediatric cardiology under one roof - will set new national standards. Construction of the Hopp Children's Tumour Centre (KiTZ) is also set to begin in 2021.

The National Centre for Tumour Diseases (NCT) in Heidelberg is a national pioneer in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, where interdisciplinary treatment has been practised in an exemplary manner under one roof since 2010. Patients with cancer are treated here jointly by qualified experts from various specialities. The close cooperation with the German Cancer Research Centre ensures that new therapeutic approaches are developed and quickly put into practice. Since 2017, there has also been a corresponding counterpart for children suffering from cancer: at the KiTZ (Hopp Children's Cancer Centre Heidelberg), doctors, scientists, nursing staff and other specialists work on new diagnostic and therapeutic options. The KiTZ is a joint institution of the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg University. In November 2009, the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Centre (HIT), the only facility of its kind in Europe, was put into operation under the direction of the Department of Radiation Oncology and Radiotherapy. The HIT is the first therapy centre in Europe to work with both protons and heavy ions. Children and patients with certain tumours of the prostate, lungs and liver can be treated effectively here. Two treatment stations and a research station went into operation immediately in 2009, followed in 2012 by the third treatment station in the "gantry", in which the ion beam now even rotates around the patients. Tumours can now be reached even more optimally for radiotherapy. In close proximity to the head clinic, this new form of radiotherapy can benefit a larger number of patients with previously incurable tumours for the first time.