Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia
Hospital in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
52°11′30″N 8°47′38″E / 52.19163°N 8.79402°E / 52.19163; 8.79402The Herz und Diabeteszentrum (Heart and Diabetes Centre), is a heart clinic in the German town Bad Oeynhausen. It is known for performing the most heart transplants in Germany (over 2,700 since 1989).
Cooperations
Besides having a lot of cooperations with the clinics and institutes of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, it has a lot of national and international cooperations. International cooperations are:[2]
- Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Saitama Medical School Saitama University, Japan
- Nihon University Tokio, Japan
- University of Pécs, Hungary
- University clinic Lyon, France
- Universitätskliniken Salzburg, Austria
- Texas Heart Institute, Houston/Texas, USA
- Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- International Prevention Organization, IPO
- TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital, Tianjin, China
General orientation
The general orientation of the HDZ NRW is to improve the quality of living of cardiac and diabetes patients by a great amount. The patients get the best treatment with a low risk due to their high performance technology.[3]