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There are cases where what you need is not a narrow specialist clinic but a large hospital that keeps almost every field under one roof — medical, surgical and paediatric alike. Helios Klinikum Erfurt in Thuringia is exactly that: a hospital of the highest level of care, the place complex and combined cases are referred to when several specialists are needed at once.
What kind of hospital it is
Helios Klinikum Erfurt is the largest hospital in the city and one of the largest in the region: around 1,260 beds and some thirty specialist departments and centres. Formally it is a hospital of maximum care (Maximalversorgung) and a teaching hospital of the University of Jena — so it not only treats patients but also trains doctors and carries out research.
The range of departments is wide: neurosurgery, cardiology, oncology with a radiotherapy unit, trauma surgery and plastic surgery, urology, gynaecology, ophthalmology, ENT, neurology. The paediatric side deserves separate mention — a large clinic for children’s and adolescent medicine with a perinatal centre of the highest (first) level, paediatric cardiology, nephrology and pulmonology, a cystic fibrosis centre and paediatric oncology.
Equipment and particulars
As a hospital of maximum care it has the full range of diagnostics — from CT and MRI to endoscopy and a laboratory that runs around the clock. The decisive feature here is not one particular machine but the scale itself: if a case touches several organs or systems, the patient does not have to travel between institutions — the neighbouring specialists are in the same building and can sit down together. For severe and paediatric cases that often matters more than any single piece of technology.
How we work with this hospital
We help you work out whether Erfurt’s profile fits your situation, forward the discharge letters and images you already have, arrange an appointment with the right department, and take on visa support, document translation and accompaniment on site. The hospital’s invoice is paid directly, with no mark-up from us.
This material is for information only and does not replace a consultation with a doctor. Whether treatment is possible, what it will involve and what it will achieve can be determined only after an examination at the clinic in person.