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Facts and Figures about the UKE

Figures

2023

Total patients	549.824
of which outpatients	454.747
of which inpatients	95.077
of which by emergency room	123.452
Total employees	15.289
Total students	3.462
of which dental and human medicine students	3.231
of which students of midwifery	231
Professorships (without third party funded positions)	141

2022

Annual surplus	2.598 TEUR
Total income	1.496.769 TEUR
EBITDA	20.717 TEUR
Case-Mix-Points	100.544
Total patients	542.944
of which outpatients	453.870
of which inpatients	89.074
of which by emergency room	121.759
Total employees 1)	14.909
Students	3.404
of which dental and human medicine students	3.227
of which students of midwifery	177
Professorships 2)	132

^{1) since 2019 including all trainees and temporary staff}
^{2) without third party funded positions}

2021

Annual surplus	-4.049 TEUR
Total income	1.423.768 TEUR
EBITDA	11.443 TEUR
Case-Mix-Points	106.599
Total patients	497.305
of which outpatients	407.226
of which inpatients	90.079
of which by emergency room	109.769
Total employees 1)	14.444
Students 2)	3.441
Professorships 3)	134

^{1) since 2019 including all trainees and temporary staff}
^{2) Students of dentistry and human medicine as well as midwifery sciences}
^{3) without third party funded positions}

Dates

February 1880	First constructional drawings for the Neues Allgemeines Krankenhaus (NAK) - New General Hospital - by Assistant Professor Heinrich Curschmann
Last summer 1884	Start of construction of the epidemics department of the NAK – New General Hospital (completion and move-in in February 1885)
May 1885	Start of construction of the entire complex of buildings of the NAK – New General Hospital (55 pavilions)
1st March 1889	Opening of the NAK – New General Hospital
19th May 1889	A delegation of politicians from Hamburg inaugurates the New Hospital
1910	Completion of foundation phase of the NAK – New General Hospital. The new hospital is complete
1910 - 2008	Seven periods of extension and reconstruction (inter alia 1903 and 1913: extension and conversion of the surgery pavilions, today building O36)
1910 - 1934	The Medical Director at the time, Ludolph Brauer, has the hospital expanded to become a research facility
1926	Opening of the institutional buildings of the pathology (today's Fritz Schumacher-Haus – Fritz Schumacher House)
1934	The New General Hospital is officially recognized as a University Hospital
1939 - 1945	About one third of the buildings is destroyed during the Second World War
After 1945	Reconstruction of i. a. the Orthopedic Clinic, Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology and the Neurological Clinic. The typical pavilion architecture is replaced by big clinic buildings with auditorium, library and laboratory (i. a. Gynecological Clinic, Psychiatric Clinic, Ophthalmic Clinic)
12th December 2008	Completion of the New Clinical Center, today's main building (with termination of the seventh construction period)
2009 - 2014	Eighth construction phase Eppendorf Health Park (i.a. hotel and health center)
As from autumn 2014	Ninth building phase starts with the new construction of the Pediatric Clinic
14th September 2017	Opening of the Children's UKE, the Werner and Michael Otto University Children's Hospital
27th August 2018	Demolition of old buildings marks the start of construction work on the UKE's Future Plan 2050

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