Vienna General Hospital (Allgemeines Krankenhaus, AKH Wien) is a public university hospital in Vienna, Austria, and the teaching hospital of the Medical University of Vienna, with 29 university clinics. Founded by Emperor Joseph II in 1784 and rebuilt as a modern campus opened in 1994, it treats conditions from routine care to complex and rare cases referred from other hospitals, with particular strength in cancer medicine through the Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna and in transplant medicine.
The hospital has 1,691 beds, 56 operating theatres and around 1,600 doctors who are also active researchers, and treats about 630,000 patients a year.
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Vienna General Hospital (Allgemeines Krankenhaus, AKH Wien) is a public university hospital in Vienna, Austria, and the teaching hospital of the Medical University of Vienna, with 29 university clinics. Founded by Emperor Joseph II in 1784 and rebuilt as a modern campus opened in 1994, it treats conditions from routine care to complex and rare cases referred from other hospitals, with particular strength in cancer medicine through the Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna and in transplant medicine.
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