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.

• Charité employs 15,500 staff, including nearly 9,797 scientists and doctors, 4,293 nurses, and 725 administrative employees.
• The facility is renowned far beyond Germany, with world-renowned doctors, including 11 Nobel Prize winners in Physiology and Medicine, which is more than half of all the German Nobel Prize winners in this field.
• Charité specialists have found a new therapeutic approach to the treatment of pneumonia and developed an anaesthetic method without side effects on the brain or intestine.
• The specialists have treated over 3,000 patients with eye tumours using proton therapy.
• Medical expertise is concentrated at 17 Charité Centres, focusing on the world’s most common diseases.

• Charité is spread over four campuses and comprises around 3,011 beds and more than 60 operating theatres.
• The facility offers diagnostic and treatment methods that have no analogues in the world.
• It includes about 100 different faculties and institutes, forming a total of 17 different centres of medicine.
• The total area of its campuses is 540,000 square metres.
• The four campuses across Berlin are Campus Benjamin Franklin, Campus Charité Mitte, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, and Campus Berlin Buch.
• These campuses focus on super-specialized departments such as Neurology, Oncology, Cardiology, Rare Diseases & Genetics, Regenerative Therapies, and Immunological Sciences.

Airport (Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)):

• Distance: 28 Km
• Duration: 35 mins by car

Metro (Naturkundemuseum (U6 Line)):

• Distance: 500 metres
• Duration: 5-7 mins by walking

Railway Station (Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Hbf)):

• Distance: 1 Km
• Duration: 12 mins by walking