Charite University Hospital

About Charite University Hospital

• Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is one of Europe’s largest and most renowned university hospitals.
• Established in 1710, it boasts a long and distinguished history in healthcare, education, and research. The facility is affiliated with Humboldt University and Freie Universität Berlin.
• It is one of Germany’s most research-intensive medical institutions.
• Accolades and Rankings:
  • Newsweek ranked it as the fifth-best hospital in the world and the best in Europe in 2019 and 2020.
  • Focus named it the best hospital out of over 1000 hospitals in Germany.
• From 2012 to 2020, more than half of all German Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, including Emil von Behring, Robert Koch, and Paul Ehrlich, worked here.
• It has numerous Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
• The facility treats more patients than any other university hospital in Germany, with 692,920 outpatient cases and 152,693 inpatient cases annually.
• Annually, it performs 74,640 operations and 629 transplantations.
• Five thousand three hundred ninety-four children are treated annually.
• It has an annual income of 1.6 billion euros and a turnover of 2 billion euros.
• International Patient Services;
  • Patients come from various countries to receive care at Charité.
  • The facility offers a wide range of services for international patients, including multilingual support, assistance with travel arrangements, and personalised care plans.
  • Notable international patients include German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Yulia Tymoshenko from Ukraine, and Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who was treated here in August 2020.